Dropping to third place in the table and suffering a damaging defeat on the South Coast wasn’t exactly the way Latics expected to round off the Easter Weekend. Especially when Paul Cook’s side had returned to the top of the table in blistering fashion on Friday afternoon. If the loss to Portsmouth showcased the worst […]
What’s the best way to bounce back from an iffy home performance against Scunthorpe? Well three consecutive away wins, six goals scored and zero conceded sounds a pretty good response by anyone’s standards. Let’s not kid ourselves Bury and Walsall aren’t the toughest tests that we’ll face this season. Both sides are struggling at the […]
Welcome to the thirtieth episode of The Pie at Night, in which Jimmy, Alan and Ian offer a welcome return to Chris and brave payday in the Royal Oak to try and record a podcast, and survive. Amongst the prosecco fueled crowd, the lads get underway by tasting the squirrel pie that Jimmy told […]
So the winning run comes to an end, and by rights it’s came in a game we could and should have won by a large margin. Latics were simply un-playable against Portsmouth on Saturday and on another day would have been two or three goals up at half time. The fact we weren’t played right […]
It’s been a while since Latics made a start to the season like this one, un-beaten in the league with three wins out of three. Four out of five if we’re to include the cup win over Blackpool, even the cup defeat to Aston Villa on Tuesday hasn’t seemed to dent the confidence and positivity […]
“Got the man we wanted” so said David Sharpe as he unveiled Paul Cook on Wednesday afternoon, it’s open to debate whether Cook actually was the man we wanted. If rumours are to be believed there were some above Cook on that list, but if Cook wasn’t necessarily our first choice increasingly he looks like […]