“Life is a roller-coaster”. So sang that Ronan Keating fella back in 2000. He should be paying every Wigan Athletic fan copyright fees or royalties or something, because we’ve been singing along to that tune for nigh on forty years, every since we arrived in the...
Long gone are the days when all you had in your car by way of potential audio entertainment was a manually tuned MW/LW radio and a cassette player that chewed your C90 to bits every coupe of miles. My current car – which is nothing special, not by any means – has a FM...
As a soccer-mad dad, it has been mildly disappointing that my son has, so far, shown little interest in football. He is ten years old and, thus far, his live football-watching career is limited to two (turgid) pre-season friendlies. At the time of writing, however, he...
Most countries have something which they probably feel defines them as a nation or a people. Something that the rest of the world recognises as being home to that particular country. Many nationalities can lay claim to something that they are particularly renowned...
I wrote last week that the football transfer window is usually an opportunity for Wigan Athletic to rectify mistakes made in previous transfer windows. This year was definitely no exception as the Latics laid on a shuttle bus from Manchester Airport to the DW Stadium...
