Agh, I don’t need those blasted ‘year in review’ talking heads shows on Channel 5! Every New Year’s Day, I lie back in my rocking chair and replay events of the previous year in the tatty old VCR box that is my brain. It may be plagued by bad reception and serious tracking issues, but…
‘Tis the season to rejoice, for the false 9 as we know it is dead! Though Rotherham got the official killshot, it had been lumbering around like a listless zombie far longer than the director’s cut of Ben Hur on Movies 24/7 that ran from yesterday afternoon to the early hours of this morning, so…
Remember when I said I wouldn’t see you before Christmas? Well, I lied. Have a bonus episode of the Progress With Unity Podcast on me! Relive slightly more successful times and listen as it all comes crashing down with this compilation of the best moments of PWU from January to May 2014. I’ve already given…
On Christmas Day 1914, amid the hostilities of the Great War, soldiers put down their guns and wandered across no man’s land to share gifts and a song or two with opposing forces in what would become known as the ‘Christmas Truce‘. For one day, these gentlemen set aside the differences dictated by polarised political…
It may not look it, but this is actually the Progress With Unity Christmas special. Sadly for a ‘radio’ ‘show’, our hilarious high jinks were limited to mostly visual pranks such as photocopying sheet music (which I believe is still punishable by Chinese burn) and hiding staplers in the reference section. These are the advantages…
I have to admit – I had no idea what ‘false 9’ meant. Was it a parallel universe version of Real Madrid, or maybe the correct answer to a multiple choice quiz with no questions? In hindsight, the latter was unlikely as it raises almost as many queries as your typical website editors’ forum. Was…
Be it by accident or design, this particular fansites forum arrived at a good time. The past month has posed so many questions we could have sat and talked with Mr Mackay about the weather and Christmas television schedules for twice, nay, thrice as long. But 75 minutes seems to be the optimal time period…
My goodness, the past month has flown by so quickly I almost forgot it was time for the second instalment of All Gone Latics, the All-New Fanzine from the Wigan Athletic writing All-Stars! Well, with a whole year’s worth of drama condensed into 30 days, can you forgive me? One thing’s for certain: it’ll make…
These days, PWU could easily stand for ‘Philosophical Wibbling Unchained’, what with all the high class ‘banter’ being thrown around like a Wellington full of jam at a village fête. The Book Cycle is becoming like an exclusive golf club for bitter, moaning northerners lamenting the demise of decent football at the DW Stadium. Except…
Wake up, JWAW, you’re dreaming again. It’s not 2013, and it’s not 2010. You’re not sat in London cheering a Ben Watson header, you’re not watching Maloney put Man U through the shredder. You’re stuck in Wigan on a bitter December afternoon contemplating a loss to flippin’ Sheffield Wednesday. You can tell I’m a Wigan…
It can’t have escaped your attention that the first week of Decembermas has brought the inevitable influx of seasonal films and television advertisements, which kind of sucks for those of us hoping to leave Christmas shopping until 23 December… 2015. Look, who are you, my mother? Stop reminding me that people need various gift wrapped…
At times of extreme drama I tend to retreat to a self-constructed bubble of peaceful ignorance, JWAW’s very own meditation chamber free of hype, over-excitement and the general madness manufactured by those entrapped by their own monstrous newsprint. Namely the mainstream media, though I get the feeling I didn’t need to tell you that. Here…