There are away days and there are classic away days and Saturday’s trip over to East Lancashire definitely falls in to the latter. After eighteen months without live football and a nine month period where the club’s very existence was at threat it’s an amazing feeling to be back in grounds again, Saturday was my […]
Saturday definitely had the feeling of after the Lord Mayor’s Show for me. The excitement of three matches unbeaten and a takeover virtually completed gave way to that familiar feeling of Latics being just not quite good enough. Saturday’s match with Accrington started in the finest possible way. A Callum Lang goal within the opening […]
There’s definite signs of life, it’s not perfect by any stretch yet but there’s progress. Despite losing against Lincoln on Saturday Latics provided the best response to the 5-0 drubbing against Hull. A performance that was full of plaudits and a performance were Latics were well worth a point if not at all three. A […]
The blows keep raining down, like a boxer curled up on the floor of the ring with the referee stood over for the count. It really is a case of how much more can Wigan Athletic take? How much more can this club, this fanbase, this beleaguered coaching staff take? If December had seen positive […]
**Written before the news that the Spanish takeover of Wigan Athletic had collapsed. Revel in the relative positivity of seven days ago** How do you even begin to look back on the last twelve months? I’ve tried and failed to start this intro three times now. There is simply no way of dressing it up […]
Another week passes by, another week full of conjecture and misinformation surrounding the future of Wigan Athletic. Late on Friday evening confirmation that we could indeed begin the season was announced by the club after the football league had granted the administrators request. Thanks Rick we’re truly humbled that you’re letting us play again {roll […]
So that’s that then, just 34 days after Wigan Athletic were plunged in to administration and all of our lives were turned upside down – Wigan Athletic were officially relegated from the Championship. Ending a two year stay in the second tier of English football, a relegation that this side indeed this club should not […]
What a truly horrific month July has been, in a year that keeps on kicking you long after the referee has rung the bell at the side of the ring. To be honest Wednesday night against Fulham followed much the same path as I had expected, but where I thought we would probably get the […]
How’s everyone’s nerves? Shot? Yeah mine too. In the nearly three weeks since we entered administration I think I’ve encountered every emotion possible and following Saturday’s last minute equaliser for Charlton I felt as deflated as I have throughout this. As the clock ticked to 90+2 we were four minutes away from picking up an […]
I said on Friday night that whatever happens over the next few weeks Paul Cook and his players had already done the club and indeed the town proud. That was clear again on Saturday as Latics battled manfully against a Barnsley side who knew that failing to win meant near certain relegation. Barnsley’s next three […]