So, last Saturday, Queens Park Rangers won the so-called £135 million football match at Wembley to clinch their place in next season’s Premier League and bring the curtain down on another domestic football season. I know there is the small matter of the League...
Conversations in the pub after Thursday Night Football normally revolve around somebody’s poor performance. Usually, that performance assassination is a football-related one but, if we are in a particularly cruel mood, it can sometimes involve pulling apart some poor...
“If you’re ever stuck for ideas for a 5-4-Friday, why don’t you write one about pies?” So asked Martin ‘Jimmy’ Tarbuck, a fellow Wigan Athletic fan, who just happens to have written the odd tome on the subject of our mutually favourite team. Funnily enough, he also...
As the theme parks and fairgrounds of Britain dust themselves down for the summer season, it is an opportune time to reflect on what has been a true roller-coaster of a year for little Wigan Athletic. A few days and a year ago, Wigan Athletic arrived at Wembley to act...
For some reason one day this week, the conversation at home gravitated towards liver and onions. It was related to something that had happened in the supermarket, apparently. Alex, who gegs in on every single conversation in the house, didn’t know what liver and...
