So, the latest football season ends with Wigan Athletic winning a league, Leicester City winning the league, Liverpool winning nothing and a bomb scare forcing a Manchester United game to be called off. Pretty standard fare, I suppose. The end of an extraordinary...
As I write this, the day before they play Coventry City at home, Wigan Athletic have just six games to go until the end of the season. And what a season it’s been, too. Off the field it has been a fantastically enjoyable one. We’ve had some monumental away trips, the...
One of the Wigan Athletic Facebook fan sites has been running a series of polls to establish the supporters’ all-time favourite Latics XI. This has led to a whole raft of arguments about the final selection, mainly because most of us Wiganers are too daft to...
We’re almost at the end of November and I have just realised that I haven’t published a football related blog since the back end of last season. At the end of May, once Wigan’s second relegation in two seasons was confirmed, I wrote about how playing...
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...
