Wigan Athletic’s second match in the Europa League is scheduled for October 3rd with a visit from NK Maribor of Slovenia. Maribor currently top the PrvaLiga – the Slovenian League. After winning their first six league matches they were held to a disappointing 1-1 home draw by Gorica on Sunday. Last season Maribor won the 10 team PrvaLiga by a […]
Wigan Athletic’s first match in their Europa League campaign commences on September 19th, with a trip to Belgium to play Zulte Waregem. SV Zulte Waregem lie in second place in the Belgian Pro League, currently known through its sponsor’s name as the Jupiler League. They are unbeaten in the first six league games, beating Anderlecht 4-3 at […]
Wigan Athletic travel to the south coast on Saturday to take on newly promoted Bournemouth. The two clubs have a significant history of encounters, of which Bournemouth have won 13 times and Wigan 14, with 10 draws. Last season’s FA Cup run started with a 1-1 draw against the Cherries at the DW Stadium, […]
Dave Whelan is well known for supporting his managers and his comments during the week have already taken pressure off Owen Coyle ahead of Sunday’s Community Shield match at Wembley. Whelan said that he regards the match as “a show game and a bit of a friendly game”. He downplayed its importance […]
How times have changed. Less than a year ago Wigan Athletic were entertaining Chelsea in the opening match of last season’s Premier League campaign. On Saturday they travel to Barnsley to open their Championship season. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since that encounter with the London giants. Wigan’s eighth Premier […]
On Saturday, Wigan Athletic play host to Dundee United at the DW Stadium. It will be their final warm-up fixture before the Championship season starts for the at Barnsley on August 3rd. By the time it gets to the final pre-season game a manager tends to have a good idea of what his first choice […]
It was billed as the grand finale to a topsy turvy season for Wigan Athletic. The home match with fellow strugglers, Aston Villa, was to be crucial in determining Latics’ future in the Premier League. But sometimes things just don’t work out as you hope they will. Wigan Athletic go into their last match […]
As you may have noticed, keeping the writing going over the last year has been difficult, for reasons both personal and footballing. Hell, the last eight years have been hard if you want to talk football, but that’s just the game we love, isn’t it? It’s like teenage poetry, wave after wave of […]
The day Wigan established themselves among football’s elite When you watch it again on television, it is hard to tell that Ben Watson’s FA Cup winning header actually happened in slow motion. But from my bright red Wembley seat about 15 yards away, I can assure you that the world stopped […]
But it is the biggest game in the club’s history, so we decided to write this up as an add-on. If you haven’t already, please do give our preview a read. In the meantime, here is the traditional match preview. While defending champions Manchester City were busy resting their eight of their starting XI […]