No one does coming back down to earth like Wigan Athletic, a simple narrow defeat? No not for us for we are Wigan Athletic and we can’t do normal. We either have to be the best in the world or the worst in the world (in the eyes of some of our support at least) […]
That’s more like it. We said, we needed a reaction after this international break and what a reaction we’ve seen. Two wins, four goals scored, zero conceded and a huge step forward after such a damaging last few weeks. Both wins were fantastic in their own way, but distinctly different performances. Against Gary Caldwell’s Exeter […]
So much for that decent week I was speaking of last week eh? Latics came crashing back to earth with a bump on Saturday after a comprehensive defeat at Joey Barton’s Bristol Rovers. You know it was a bad day when the most interesting aspect of the afternoon was learning that Joey Barton is Tony […]
It’s not been a bad week has it? Two wins one of those getting us back on track in the league and another a comprehensive thrashing in the Pizza Cup. Let’s take a look at Cambridge first up, a win that was a bit closer than it needed to have been. Cambridge are a decent […]
When your luck’s against you, your luck’s against you. It feels like it’s been a long time since that last minute kick in the teeth at Bloomfield Road. After having an excellent record, when playing at Blackpool for so long it feels like they’ve got a hold on us these days. It was another disappointing […]
It’s happening again, Bolton Wanderers it’s happening again” And arguably it was even more successful than first time around. In fact there’s no arguably about it. It was definitely more impressive than last time. I had real worries about visiting Bolton so early in the season. They had started very well, and were sitting pretty […]
Saturday – ‘we’re winning the lot’. Tuesday – ‘Bloody rubbish Wigan, tha won’t see me again’. I’m paraphrasing of course but there was this reaction and more on the old hashtag in that 76 hour period between that amazing opening day win and the disappointing penalties defeat to Wrexham. We truly are a Jekyll and […]
“We’re back and we’re ready for it all over again” No not Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 general election but Wigan Athletic. I’ve spent the last few weeks talking about how we very nearly didn’t make it here, but make it we did thanks to the hard work of many. It’s going to be a […]
There was a time around about May where it felt like writing a season preview may be one for the memory bank. I don’t think it’s dramatic to state that when we left the Dave Whelan Stadium following the Rotherham game many of us wondered whether we would ever be back. It seems churlish to […]
It’s often darkest before the dawn. And my word they have been dark days in Wigan over recent weeks. It’s been said why haven’t Amazon or Netflix decided to film a Sunderland or Wrexham type documentary about us. The reason why is that it would simply be seen as too unrealistic to ever be taken […]