Due to a family emergency I found myself in Wimbledon on Wednesday night. I sat in a pub surrounded by Chelsea fans shouting at the screen as Barcelona dismantled their side piece by piece at the Nou Camp. I wouldn’t have known though, as absorbed as I was in trying to follow the fortunes of Wigan […]
Talk about a week of contrasting emotions. Saturday was probably the lowest we’ve felt all season. For the first time under Paul Cook it felt like we were out classed and out fought by Bradford. Bradford were one of the few teams this season to come to Robin Park and have a go, and we […]
So, walking away from the ground on Saturday, I’m sure I wasn’t on my own in tutting repeatedly, muttering under my breath and hoping my mood would be improved by Debbie McGee messing up her routine and ending up being abandoned in Blackpool by the ‘Strictly’ crew. Ok, so I know that Debbie has a […]
I don’t know about you but it feels an age since we last played a league game. That frustrating goalless draw with Blackburn may as well have been last season, let alone last month. A lot has happened since then, any potential takeover talk has calmed down and Latics have progressed through one cup and […]
I suspect many readers of this column may be familiar with the app called Timehop. Essentially it trawls through your social media accounts and tells you exactly what you were talking about one, two or even ten years ago. I occasionally find the use of it a bit tedious, like the perverse way our own […]
Here. Who fancies starting off their Saturday with some music? Did I hear someone at the back say “A perfect hat-trick of three songs with tenuous links to today’s game would be nice”? That’s good, because that’s just what we’ve got…
Who doesn’t love a three-all draw? Especially one with a last minute equaliser, eh? Me neither, but whilst we’d probably all prefer ten, exceedingly dull but never in doubt, 1-0 wins to see us to the end of the season that would give us nothing to talk about. That would be a shame given that […]