Impossible

So here we are again, the business end of the season. The run in, the final furlong, the finishing line in sight – it’s hard to think that the season has just four weeks left to run.

After the awful circumstances in which we spent last season locked out of a stadium that we didn’t know whether we would ever step foot in again this season has been a real tonic for the soul.

If you can ignore the hot takes and hysterics after the handful of bad results we’ve had this season it’s been an unbelievable return for Latics.

A return for supporters post pandemic but also a return for the club, rescued by a group of individuals that just seem to get us and as a result have given the club a real shot in the arm. There’s a lot to reflect on, and hopefully a lot to congratulate people with but the time for that isn’t just yet.

There’s an incredible nine games to fit in to April, thanks in part to the refusal of Accrington to play in January when they originally postponed their match against us. Add in to that progress in the FA Cup and another postponement due to the international break and it makes it a month absolutely crammed full.

All of that begins this Saturday with the visit of everyone’s favourite ‘best team in the league’. Our friends in Horwich have picked up in recent weeks, thanks in no small part to a December and January devoid of any football (mainly cause they called them all of cause of Covid) allowing them to get players fit and new signings bedded in.

The play-offs are probably beyond them now, unless you listen to Mr Evatt who on hearing that the play-offs were ‘impossible’ replied that it spelled ‘I’m possible’ so y’know {insert David Brent image here}

Obviously with nothing to play for and Bolton fans stating that the rivalry between the two clubs is all in the heads of Wiganer’s there won’t be any Bolton fans making the short journey to Robin Park on Saturday, and there’ll definitely be no need for the police to move the game to an early kick-off will there?

If my maths is correct I think Saturday is the 60^th match between the two clubs and despite this every Bolton fan to a man on the internet says it’s a fixture they’re not interested in. Some fella said Everton was a bigger derby for them. Ask Evertonians and United fans where they think Bolton rank on their list of club rivalries and I’ll imagine you’ll get a very different response.

Indifference to us is absolutely fine, we’re used to it. When your last meaningful success was in the 1950’s it makes sense to hark back to those times but most of those coming out with such statements are the same age as me, not the age of my Grandad who god rest his soul did see the glory days of Bolton, despite all this you know that if they manage to beat us on Saturday we’ll never hear the end of it, despite ‘not caring’.

Saturday is the start of an intense period that will define this season. What a perfect match to start that run off with.

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