Wigan v St. Mirren (8th August 2009) photos
Just catching up on some photos from the pre-season friendly against St. Mirren, which I never got round to uploading at the time.
Just catching up on some photos from the pre-season friendly against St. Mirren, which I never got round to uploading at the time.
Collector of cheesy Wigan Athletic puns. That annoying bloke off the Progress With Unity Podcast. All opinions are stolen from someone else.
Welcome to Wigan. We don’t have a Waitrose, Harrods, John Lewis, Morrisons, an airport, a cathedral, a glass museum… or very much at all, come to think of it. But the one thing we do have, apart from the George Formby Memorial Pier, is football. From Wigan United (as opposed to Wigan-United) and Wigan Town…
It was nice to actually be able to get to a game for a change, to sample the (very tense) atmosphere of the DW once more after a string of working Saturdays. The old camera, complete with new batteries, was brought out once more for some pre-game snaps from a decent viewpoint in the East…
There was a distinctly pre-season feel about this game: maybe it was the empty South and East Stands or the slightly below Premier League standard opposition that betrayed the match’s warmup status. But it was a game worth paying attention to for a number of reasons, not least the small but significant fact it was…
Photographs from the crucial Premier League clash with Birmingham City on Saturday 19 March. It was a variously tense and exciting afternoon, especially when things picked up in the second half. The best of these pics will be available on the Illarterate Flickr channel soon, so check that out if you get the chance.
Did you see the 4-page victory parade special in today’s Wigan Evening Post? Did you open the centre spread and try to spot yourself among the crowd? Because I did, and it’s like Where’s Wally? without the red stripy shirts – they were nowhere to be seen. I haven’t been back to the town centre…
Premier League match report. Illarterate Flickr account