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I had a spot of man flu last weekend. You know the beast, a bit of a cough, a snotty nose, aches and pains and generally feeling under the weather. It’s not enough to make you miss your weekend boozing … Continue reading
Category Archives: Wigan
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 … Continue reading
“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, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Now is probably the moment Malky Mackay has been waiting for since he was appointed Wigan manager in November – the January transfer window. Things certainly haven’t gone to plan since Mackay replaced Uwe Rosler. Just one win from … Continue reading
Chinkgate, the sorry race-related episode that has blighted Wigan Athletic and its owner Dave Whelan over the last couple of weeks, has shown us that we have to be vey careful what we say for fear of breaking largely unwritten … Continue reading
There was an interesting piece doing the rounds on Facebook and Twitter this week which picked out some common traits to be found in a typical 5-a-side line up. The author identified 19 different types of personality to be found … Continue reading
What a week at work this has been! To trot out some well-worn Wigan phrases, I am tireder than a galley slave, tireder than a rikshaw driver and tireder than a Blackpool donkey when Vanessa Feltz is in town. There … Continue reading
“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 … Continue reading