It’s amazing to see the change in attitude in the fan base in just over a week. Ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup tie at Luton it really felt like Latics were staring down the barrel, three consecutive 4-1 defeats – each one worse than the last. Coupled with an expectation that the squad wouldn’t be […]
Fourteen goals conceded, only four scored, four defeats – a shedload of injuries and a probable terminal hit to our survival chances. It all looked so different before the festive period, the new era getting underway with a positive draw at Millwall. Even on the 19th December we could and should have got a point […]
The nightmare before after Christmas had nothing on this, a day that had promised so much left Latics looking in a desperate state just at the wrong time. Kolo Toure’s side had been the better side for much of the early exchanges in the first half but were once again un-done by an early goal […]
Can defeats ever be positive? In the modern world of football and instant gratification I’m not sure it can. But there was certainly a lot of positives to take from Kolo Toure’s first home game in charge. The defending for both goals was disappointing, but this is to be expected with a new style of […]
New regime up and running, and before England’s World Cup chances faded it hadn’t been a bad afternoon by all accounts. A trip to Millwall is never an easy one, indeed not for Latics. Our record there is questionable to say the least but things started off on the right track for Kolo’s tricky tics […]
It’s been a while hasn’t it? At the time of writing 25 days to be precise, the first winter World Cup has provided a relief of sorts but nothing to ever replace the domestic football that it so foolishly replaced thanks to Fifa’s grubby decision making over a decade ago. With the bottom two divisions […]
I can’t have been the only one to wonder if it was actually going to get over the line can I? When it was first revealed that the club had decided to make Kolo Toure the new first team manager the World Cup hadn’t even begun, now we’ve nearly reached the end of the group […]
Even by our ‘It’s Never Dull” © standards this has to go some. After it emerged last week that we had approached Yaya Toure to speak to us about the managerial vacancy and he had subsequently turned us down to remain as a coach at Tottenham, a few days later another Toure was suddenly in […]
As week’s go that’s one I wouldn’t want to repeat in a hurry. There was a feeling last week that I haven’t felt for a while, probably not since Gary Caldwell was so unceremoniously dumped in favour of Warren Joyce. A situation that made no sense then and makes even less sense now. Now […]
‘It’s never dull’ they say, I wish it was. Just one normal footballing season for Wigan Athletic Association Football Club, that’s all I ask … Will never happen. Tuesday felt different, I don’t know why. Same line-up, same decent first half, same end result. Same as it’s been for a while but the end result […]