This was supposed to be the game Wigan found its feet again, but transpired to be another night to forget as Blackpool ran riot at Bloomfield Road. Changes were expected, and Martinez certainly went to town in that respect, retaining just two of the players that started the Manchester United game. But Blackpool were not…
I think it would be best to write off Saturday as a bad day at the office and concentrate on the immediate future. After all, you don’t get relegated based on one result… at least hopefully not. A bit of a diversion first, though, as next on the radar are Championship climbers and local rivals…
Well, I can’t say these are as good as the professional ones from the official website (they aren’t even from the actual game), but there’s a few little gems in there. Hopefully this will be more of a regular thing, depending on how many photos I can snap during the forthcoming season. As ever, high…
Well, the less said about this the better, one would think. The way Wigan played attacking-wise, you would have said they certainly didn’t deserve to be pummelled by so many goals. With a slightly dodgy defensive performance, though, there was always the chance we were going to be punished severely. It wasn’t always that way…
Tuesday night was a bit of a blur, if I’m honest. The overall feeling was one of frustration, and, somewhat surprisingly, the boo-boys were out in force for much of the game. I’m not sure if it’s where I was sat in the West Stand, but there was a general feeling of negativity, of a…
…Er, well, not particularly. “Wolves will be tougher“, claimed Bob after the Villa game. Well, at least he was right about that. If everything went Wigan’s way on Saturday, then it’s safe to say that this certainly was not Latics’ evening. Frustration was the order of the day as none of Martinez’s tactics seemed to…
I used to buy matchday programmes religiously, until I came to my senses. Sure, you’re supporting the club and that with the three quid, but for me, it’s a one-read publication – save for the really big match programmes, each of them was placed neatly in a pile on my shelf where they have remained…
The phrase that generally comes to mind for the opening game of a new campaign is ‘start as you mean to go on’, and by goodness I think we certainly did that this afternoon. Granted, Villa weren’t at their fluent best, and seemed a long way from the team that put four past Steve Bruce’s…
It’s only just struck me that Latics have decided to officially launch their new Dutch-inspired away strip the day after England played Holland in an international friendly. Either this is all one big coincidence or these marketing types really know what they’re doing. Actually, it’s more than likely the latter, as the kit launch even…
For Latics fans old and new, a day that will live long in the memory is May 8 2005, the day Little Wigan reached the Promised Land: The Premier League. A couple of years ago, I started work on a short video to commemorate the Latics’ promotion. Don’t ask me why it took so long,…
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Whilst the England cricket team were rolling back the years over at Headingley with a performance more reminiscent of 1995 than 2005, Latics fans had their own bout of nostalgia on Saturday as the Three Amigos were once again reunited at the club that made their names. Well, probably. As Isidro Diaz, Jesus Seba and…
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…