Lightning doesn’t strike twice or so the saying goes, whoever wrote that clearly hasn’t visited Elland Road with Wigan Athletic. I travelled over the Pennines to Leeds on Saturday more in trepidation than expectation. The buzz from that last minute Jamal Lowe winner against Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday was in mind as I left Manchester […]
The less we speak about last Saturday the better, after the euphoria of the opening match with Cardiff this was as big a reality check as you could imagine. Paul Cook had spoken ahead of Saturday of how important it was to learn from last season’s disastrous defeat at Deepdale and he even explained how […]
What a difference a week makes, or rather in Wigan Athletic’s case the difference eight days can make. Prior to the end of July it had been a quiet old window for Paul Cook and didn’t social media let us know. Some of the angst shown by Latics fans over what was being portrayed […]
How do you put the last couple of weeks in to words? Words won’t really do the events of April any justice. Following the Hull game where Latics were so cruelly robbed of a valuable point on the road Paul Cook’s side were truly looking down the barrel. The turn around from that night has […]
I said ahead of Sunday’s match with table topping Norwich that I wanted to see fight from Paul Cook and fight from his players. We had that and more on Sunday, Paul Cook stated at the end of the match that he had wanted Norwich to know they had been in a game and that […]
‘Let us never speak of that again’ – That was my first reaction after leaving Deepdale a couple of weeks ago, well the first reaction that could be printed in a family newspaper that is. That as trivial as it may seem is probably the approach that is needed from the Latics faithful now. Things […]
Fine margins is an often overused phrase, it’s also one that often irks me. Probably due to its overuse by certain Wigan Athletic managers that should be left firmly in the past – I’m looking at you Malky, Warren and Owen. But for this week fine margins is most definitely a suitable phrase. After the […]
What did I say about a rollercoaster last week? If we were on an upward incline last week we’re definitely back on that downward trend this week. It doesn’t feel terminal just yet but make no mistake the failure to take only 1 point from the last two games makes the fight against relegation a […]
From hope to despair and back to hope again. That sums up the current roller coaster that is Wigan Athletic in 2017. Last week’s hard earned point against Norwich looked like it was going to be the platform for another upward journey on the rollercoaster. Leading at Fulham for most of the second half, Latics […]