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Before it’s too late
We or rather the collective we, IE me – said that last week something had to change. Well we’ve now reached the point where that change required is immediate. Wigan Athletic need a change of management with urgency or for the first time in over thirty years Wigan Athletic could find themselves in the bottom […]
Something has to change
It has to change, somehow something’s got to change. We thought that change or rather that progression had finally come against Preston, but the more Saturday went on and the more disgraceful the performance it felt like we’d left everything on the pitch at Deepdale. Not because it was Wigan Athletic and it was the […]
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Blackpool calling
It’s New Year and that can only mean one thing, not a return to work not a set of un-assailable New Year resolutions but for me and over a thousand other people THE soul music event of the year. For the uninitiated let me set some context to this claim. Now in to a fourteenth […]
A pathetic shopping spree
If you move in certain Twitter circles then you’ll have come across The Pathetic Casuals. Once they were young lads and lasses, touring the country in following the team they love, dressed up the nines and making sure they were seen and heard. Now, as age, parenthood, mortgages and world weariness catches up with them, […]
Brut: not just an aftershave
With Saturday’s game against Sheffield Wednesday on the horizon, we’ve been turning our minds to things that would be worth going to Sheffield for, even if you didn’t want to pay £33 to get into a football match. Chris pointed us in the direction of one of Sheffield’s less expected landmarks and this article that […]
Dancing with Ghosts…
As you wake up with the fear from your work’s do and head towards the chaos of Mad Friday, Tony Topping reminds us that, sometimes, you do want to remember those Christmas nights out. Dancing With The Ghosts Of Wigan Casino, 1973 The cold December wind cut through the hole in the window and its […]
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2013/14 Fixtures
The Football League fixtures for the 2013/14 season will be released on Wednesday June 19. The season will kick-off on Saturday August 3 and will conclude on Saturday May 3 2014 with the Play-Off Finals being held at Wembley Stadium on May 24-26. The 2013/14 […]
What possesses us?
Possession may be nine tenths of the law but in a lot of football debate there is much discussion around whether it actually matters. After bulldozing Barnsley 4-0 many fans were cheekily asking what the possession stats were, in a token nod to our former manager’s obsession with them. Their valid inference being: who cares […]
N’Zogbia to Sunderland tomorrow then.
It’s funny how different people hear things differently isn’t it? Sky must have been pestering the club today for a line on the rumours that Sunderland are about to whisk Charles N’Zogbia away for ten bob and a bag of grapes. Eventually they get rentaquote on the line, but there’s obviously no story in the […]
Last chance but won – Burnley report
Latics know the cruel nature of late goals but we also know the sheer absolute pleasure that they can bring. The two main highlights of our first top flight season hinged on them. The opening day defeat to Chelsea was heartbreaking, but may have been what drove Latics on to achieve what they did. The […]