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 […]
This is Wigan, we do things differently here …
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 […]
Over the line
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 […]
Who’d have predicted that?
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 […]
Over to you, Mr Chairman
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 […]
Guess who?
You probably don’t want to hear my views on Leam Richardson. They’re way too nuanced to fit into a twitter argument and were no way convincing enough to keep him in a job/get him sacked (delete based on your preferred standpoint). He came, he fought, and he (sort of) conquered, he saved the club, he […]
Here’s to you, Leam Richardson
‘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 […]
A route out?
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 […]
Where do we stand?
How do you begin to describe the goings on of the last few days? With great difficulty I imagine. As always with these things, they break when you least want it to. I’ve been away with the kids for the last few days and without a match until Saturday thought it safe to turn off […]
Crisis?
Crisis, what crisis? No not the insight in to the mind of the current incumbent of Number Ten but the supposed crisis Latics were facing following the defeat to Cardiff on Saturday afternoon. In the space of seven days Leam Richardson went from hero to zero, before returning to hero again a couple of days […]