My lad is one of a small handful of kids chosen from his class to potentially sit Level 6 SATs at the end of year 6 in June – or at the end of junior school, as it was in my day. He and the other kids in the frame have bee told that if they are to be allowed to...
A number of our team members are currently spending the working week away from our base in Oldham. Some would say that not having to spend all day in Oldham is a good thing. However, I don’t think many of them particularly relish the travelling and staying away from...
So, last week we looked at players who left Wigan Athletic supposedly to move on to bigger and better things. Leaving Wigan didn’t work out too well for the ones we saw last week but there have been one or two success stories. Throughout the eighties, there was a...
“No-one’s bigger than the club”. “The club will still be here well after he’s gone”. “Players come and go, but the fans will be here forever”. All of the above well-worn phrases are undoubtedly true. Yet whenever a player leaves a football club, especially one who was...
There aren’t too many of us who don’t at least dabble with a bit of social media these days. You might use Instagram to upload your million and one holiday photos for everyone to ‘enjoy’, you may use Twitter to tweet abuse at Joey Barton and Piers Morgan or, as a bare...
