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It’s happened again
How do you begin to describe a night like Tuesday I’ve not really got the words, there have been some fantastic high points this season – undoubtedly some low points as well. But they would be expected in a season where we started on minus eight points and are having to re-build the club from […]
Under the lights
Has anybody got any fingernails left after Saturday? Talk about nervy endings to a match. Saturday was a really important result, for one Shrewsbury are close to us in the table and secondly it was a return to winning ways after two disappointing defeats against both Exeter and Oxford. Latics looked in control against Shrewsbury […]
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Blackpool calling
It’s New Year and that can only mean one thing, not a return to work not a set of un-assailable New Year resolutions but for me and over a thousand other people THE soul music event of the year. For the uninitiated let me set some context to this claim. Now in to a fourteenth […]
Puffers to Pemps
On the fifth anniversary of the demolition of one iconic Wigan landmark, we take in some 2009 memories of the place from Tony Topping… This summer a legend passed away, loved by some and hated by many. If your thinking Michael Jackson think again dear friend, the legend was Barbara Calderbank. My association with Barbara, […]
Brut: not just an aftershave
With Saturday’s game against Sheffield Wednesday on the horizon, we’ve been turning our minds to things that would be worth going to Sheffield for, even if you didn’t want to pay £33 to get into a football match. Chris pointed us in the direction of one of Sheffield’s less expected landmarks and this article that […]
Dancing with Ghosts…
As you wake up with the fear from your work’s do and head towards the chaos of Mad Friday, Tony Topping reminds us that, sometimes, you do want to remember those Christmas nights out. Dancing With The Ghosts Of Wigan Casino, 1973 The cold December wind cut through the hole in the window and its […]
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Whelan on his way out
I read a quip the other day that amused me. It is relatively easy to take out £1m by being the owner of a football club. All you have to do is first put in £2m. Dave Whelan reportedly put £100 m into underpinning Wigan Athletic’s success over these past two decades. One wonders what […]
Latics listen to the fans
Wigan Athletic can confirm that after consultation with a number of supporters a decision has been made to return to a reserved seating plan in the South Stand for next season. It had been originally planned that the stand would offer unreserved seating for supporters, but concerns raised since the announcement was made has […]
A Category 1 academy coming for Latics
We had been waiting so long with bated breath for news about the exciting training complex project. Latics had bought the Charnock Richard Golf Course last year, but no news had been forthcoming. Then last week the club confirmed that the Chorley Borough Planning Committee had given its approval. Chief Executive Jonathan Jackson commented “To compete […]
Celebration time or wasting time ?
Is it me ? I know a goal is important. It means a great deal to all concerned whether you have scored it or conceded it. BUT is it me or do the players now go severely over the top when they have scored ? The celebrations after the ball has hit the onion bag […]