Somewhere deep within the bowels of my hard drive I possess a 10,000 word article entitled the football club which ate itself. One night, full of ale (probably) maybe five or even ten years ago I decided to document the rise and fall of Wigan Athletic. A lot of the in the future stuff was […]

Now is the winter of our discontent, well let’s hope not. There did seem to be a bit of an over-reaction in some quarters to Saturday’s result, mainly on the internet – where else? I have concerns myself, hopefully of a more measured variety but first I think there is a fairly simple equation to […]

If you’ve had your eyes on the Latics Wide Web since the last issue of the mag then you might have spotted a bit of a kerfuffle over our current manager.  I didn’t help, publishing an article that got lumped in with all the noblot bashing that’s been rumbling on since the Latics job went […]

Ok, I didn’t go to the game on Saturday. I know that loses me superfan points but, being who I am, it doesn’t stop me having an opinion, or ten. These are the ten conversations that have been dominating my timelines, inboxes and internal dialogues over the last couple of days.

  Then WASC have sorted it for thee ! please read on for full details.  

A lacklustre display from Wigan Athletic saw them lose their unbeaten home record. Over the past weeks performances like this have been largely excused by the tiredness factor of having had to play too many games in a short period of time. After a two week pause for the international break such excuses cannot apply. […]

So, another international break falls by the wayside and another golden generation  is tarnished before it’s even grown into its shin pads.  Whilst, in Australia, a young man, who looks a bit like a big girl, proves he’s anything but by ignoring all those people ignoring him and takes a load of wickets, before his […]

  In the early 1990’s we lived in Colombia. Friends in England used to ask why we would choose to live in a dangerous place like that. That was a hard question to answer. How can you explain what a country is really like to someone who has never been there? I would mention the […]