Last week’s 54F talked about the business of travelling for business, if that makes sense, and how it isn’t really all that it is cracked up to be. Glamourous, it isn’t, certainly not the way I do it at any rate. Tedious, it definitely can be, and so you look for...
After a long, hot (mostly wet, really) summer, it’s good to have the football season back. It’s only been about twelve weeks but it seems an awful lot more. Saturdays simply aren’t made for shopping, creosoting fences and housework. Of course, as I rarely partake in...
Finally, well as near as makes no difference, the football season is over and done with. In truth, Wigan Athletic’s abject season ended a long, long time ago. It was around last November, in actual fact, but we managed to drag it right out until the penultimate game...
Tonight (Friday, 8th) there is a charity football match taking place between the Wigan Athletic Development Squad (a fancy new name for the reserves-cum-youth team) and a Select XI of Wigan Athletic legends. The game kicks off at 7:30pm at Ashton Town Football Club...
Last week, I reflected on the remarkable demise of Wigan Athletic over the last four years, centring the discussion on the relative merits of the five managers we had in charge during that period. On Tuesday night, Rotherham’s victory over Reading ensured that the...
