At what point does this become terminal? I’m sure I wasn’t alone thinking that on Wednesday evening. After the inevitable L was posted alongside Wigan 0-1 Stoke. Once again a half decent performance was rewarded with nothing, but perhaps it’s all we deserved? I’m not sure, all I do know is Blackburn apart Autumn has […]
There’s some games that you know, even early on that they’re going to be remembered fondly. As Saturday’s match went on you felt something special was brewing. Latics had struggled to get to grips with Birmingham in the opening ten minutes or so, when Joe Bennett was incorrectly sent off it felt like it was […]
Nearly there Wigan, nearly there. One last push is all it will take, one last stretch through tired legs and those legs are tired now. Don’t let anyone tell you this Wigan Athletic side aren’t deserving of promotion if it does indeed come this Saturday. A team that had four contracted players at the start […]
As you may or may not know, my formative years were spent at the other stadium in Wigan – Central Park, home of Wigan RLFC (not Warriors). I attended my first game around the 1981/82 season, when they were shit basically. I have a vivid memory of watching Wigan play the touring Australian team in […]
Italy and the 2017 World Cup 2017 will mark the second time that the Azzurri have qualified for the Rugby League World Cup. Great strides were made in their first appearance in the World Cup in 2013, and hopes are high that they can at least reach the Quarter finals this time around. In 2013, […]
It’s 30th October (Halloween-eve?), I’m up before everyone in the house, and I find myself sat at the computer looking at batting gloves on the internet. It’s a completely illogical act, I’ve got two pairs of perfectly good gloves in my bag in the attic, the bag that’s in the attic because it’s nearly two […]
New Where do we go now? It’s difficult to describe a game like Saturday, let alone reflect on it. It’s been a long time since we were on the end of such a sickening defeat. To have drawn the game after how well Latics played in spells would have been disappointing to lose it is […]
With apologies to the TPAN continuity editor, here’s a piece that first appeared in the May 2016 issue of the Mudhuts Football Express when it was indeed the end of the football season… Yes, the football season is still going on and Latics are doing their usual thing of keeping it interesting to the bitter end (can […]