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Retiring ungracefully….
The Pie At Night returns in somewhat sombre mood as we hit our official retirement age, well for now at least. (cont below…) We discuss how to spend our lump sum before the first of several bobble hat plugs. Whilst on the topic of compensation it doesn’t take us long to move on to the […]
A fence sitting club sycophant writes
I wasn’t initially overjoyed when Paul Cook became our manager in 2017. Curiously, I wondered why he would leave a massive club like Portsmouth, a sleeping giant on the rise, a club going places, for Wigan Athletic a club dumped back in League One (again) and with our gold plated parachute payments vanishing rapidly. Turns […]
Past the point of no return ?
Are we past the point of no return? It feels like it, the last fifteen minutes or so of Saturday’s match with Reading were horrific for a multitude of reasons. It felt like a return to the bad old days of Owen Coyle, Malky Mackay and Warren Joyce with an atmosphere to match. My son […]
Point gained, two lost?
A point gained, two lost? It’s a well-worn path travelled by this Wigan Athletic side this season. If our problem last season was scoring goals it’s moved on to hanging on to leads this season. Twice in the past week we’ve been ahead and unable to capitalise on our leads, in the case of Stoke […]
Gathering clouds
It’s never dull following Wigan Athletic is it? Depressing maybe, dull? Never. After the thoroughly woeful performance against Brentford last time out a cloud hangs over Paul Cook and his team. Goodwill towards the gaffer had been built up over the last month or so with credible performances against Nottingham Forest, Derby County, Bristol City […]
Heartbreaker
As I write this its five days since that heart breaking 92nd minute winner for Swansea and I still don’t think it’s sunk in. In a ten day period we could well have had nine points and be sitting pretty in the relative safety of mid table obscurity. Instead we have one point and three […]