I think we all know those footballers who the notoriously hard to please Wigan Athletic fans love most: those high energy grafters: witness the current love in over all-action cartoon hero Roger Espinoza. Run around like a headless chicken and they’ll love you forever!

“The budget is spent in terms of the amount of players we have in. It’s a big squad but that was needed because of the European games. What (the January transfer window) allows me is it might free up some money on the wage budget to bring in loan players until the end of the […]

Results often improve after a new manager arrives at a football club that has been struggling. The challenge for the new boss is to maintain that improvement over a more extended period. Uwe Rosler had made an impressive start to his reign at Wigan Athletic. He has already shown himself to be more tactically astute […]

They might be a new football club and they may have come about under somewhat scrupulous circumstances but dare I say it, on the pitch at least there was something about the MK Dons that I liked.

  There is no doubt that Uwe Rosler has the Premier League in his sights. Neither he nor Dave Whelan want to stay in the second tier. The question is how to get back there. For all the flak that Owen Coyle took when he left Wigan he left Latics a formidable squad. His personal […]

  Steve Bruce signed Ben Watson for Wigan Athletic in January 2009. Watson scored what was considered a crucial goal in a 2-1 win away at Sunderland a couple of months later. But neither Bruce nor Watson could have guessed that the same player would score the most important goal in Latics’ history some four […]

On Saturday afternoon, esteemed journalist Rory Smith of the Times did a tweet of Wigan Athletic’s empty (closed) South Stand with the accompanying headline “FA Cup Fever hits Wigan”. Ouch.

Part 2 of the mid season review looks at the playing squad with a brief review of their performance so far and a rating out of ten. At the end is my team of the half season. Feel free to join the forum to disagree.

Latics at Wembley, a goal behind to Manchester United in the Community Shield. Stephen Crainey launches a ball over the Reds’ defence. Chris Smalling makes a hash of it and James McClean is through with what is to be Latics’ best chance in the match. But instead of looking for Grant Holt coming up on […]

The last six months in the life of Wigan Athletic would have been dismissed as ridiculous had anyone attempted to predict the events that have unfolded. The end of last season saw relegation, jubilation and resignation as the championship beckoned, along with a  Europa league adventure and the departure of popular manager Roberto Martinez.