5-4-Friday… 5 Latics Legends

5-4-Friday… 5 Latics Legends

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...

5-4-Friday… 5 Wigan Managers

“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...
5-4-Friday… 5 false dawns

5-4-Friday… 5 false dawns

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...

Who do Wigan need to bring in to bolster their ranks in 2015?

  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 eight games in all...
5-4-Friday… 5 fads

5-4-Friday… 5 fads

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 rules associated with race, homophobia...