Club captain Gary Caldwell has revealed to Latics Official that he could return to reserve team football before the year is out. But the Scotland international warns he will only make himself available for selection when he is sure of his fitness. Caldwell underwent hip surgery in the summer, but is making significant progress thanks…
Owen Coyle’s quest to transform Wigan Athletic into a Manchester United B-team continues apace with news that 20-year old forward Will Keane is close to securing a loan deal. That’s if you believe the sources, and there is certainly no reason not to. Nope, none at all. There are now less than two weeks remaining…
Ready your VCRs and Videoplus+ boxes! Energetic Latics wingman Jean Beausejour could return to action for Chile against England tonight, and it’s being shown live on ITV. The game kicks off at 8.00pm, so dig out an old episode of Top Gear you don’t mind taping over (they’re all on Freeview TV channel Dave anyway)…
The mainstream media is today reporting that Callum McManaman “isn’t out of Roy Hodgson’s radar” for a somewhat surprising international call-up. One’s immediate reaction to this might be, “were PWU‘s Kendrick or Farrimond at that press conference to ask the question?” Twitter, that most reliable of online sources, seems to indicate otherwise, though evidence suggests…
Whoever said Latics had no fans? A good chunk of those 100,000 spectators at the Yeovil game on Sunday must have been from the north west. Nope, all the pictures that made it seem as though there were about fifty have been fabricated in the name of cheap ‘entertainment’. Keep it to yourself, but I…
That Cantona bloke was alreet, but was he really that good? He might have skyrocketed Manchester United to superstardom with a new brand of footballing ‘je ne se quoi’ in the 1990s, but would he even be considered for Owen Coyle’s first XI in 2013? Well, only if he agrees not to pinch his Irn…
Long ago, when I was still entombed in the educational institutions’ impenetrable iron sarcophagus, I recall lurking around the social sciences noticeboard and reading an example question for their A-Level test paper. My memory cells are the equivalent of an Amstrad CPC after you’ve flicked the off switch (i.e. non-existent), but I think it was…
It’s a very strange experience to hear ‘neutral’ pundits such as Jake Humphrey and David James ‘supporting’ Wigan during a live television broadcast. Bar the notable exception of the FA Cup Final, Latics build-up normally amounts to laughing at Owen Coyle’s choice of legwear and/or Dave Whelan’s broken le- see, I should stop talking about…
Fresh from their exhausting expedition to the North Pole AKA Stadium DW, your humble podcasters are grateful of the relative warmth of Studio PWU. Speak not of their abandoned excursion, otherwise sponsors may learn the grisly fate of the vessel… we’ll be in deep trouble if that holiday camp in Southport discover we pinched their…
So apparently, in these football matches you are supposed to make the round white thing go into the big letterbox. On that basis, we might have considered tapping up a selection of Royal Mail’s most proficient pillarbox-stuffers to help prevent that third consecutive scoreless draw which would have forced Latics to automatically concede the frame….
It’s not every day the Wigan Athletic Head of Media is asked to participate in small time internet podcasts. Or at least, that’s the impression I got from meeting journalist, author and long-time Latics supporter Ed Jones at the DW Stadium on Monday afternoon. Do not be fooled by his snappy answer to the question,…
Since its grand opening, I have nattered endlessly about visiting Sharpy’s Fine Fish and Chip Establishment (Est. 2012), but never made arrangements to visit until last night. However, I would be made to pay for my lack of preparation, as some of you might already have guessed. But don’t ruin the story for the remaining…