Aww, August already? Just when I was starting to enjoy the suitably football-free silly season of full-flavoured froth. The discerning gentleman will tell you the most enjoyable part of a pint is its head. This particular summer has had an unmistakably meaty taste. Lucky visitors to Wigan North Western station were shocked to witness local…
Good morning, peasants of Wiggum. I, the Superior One, demand your undivided attention for a brief moment. My agent has ordered me to address you, the good residents of Hell, Lancashire. I am under strict instruction to pass on his- no sorry, *my* gratitude for your role in my personal travelling show. Without the bed…
“It’s not about the result, it’s about the cha-cha-chinnnng! I mean, er… the experience gained.” – Anonymous on pre-season friendlies with Man United and Liverpool. “Hey kid, fancy one of these scarves for today’s episode of the AGL Media Podcast? Look, they’re half All Gone Latics, half Jesus Was a Wiganer. If you don’t like…
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…
“The reason we struggled to beat any of the Big Four for so long,” spake the sage of Latics legend, “is because we gave them all too much respect.” I can’t remember whether it was Paul ‘2 Cup Finals’ Scharner or Arjan ‘2 Big Elbows’ de Zeeuw that uttered those fabled words. Which is tantamount…
AKA a sublime chocolate box of random observations from the 2016 European Championships. Will you pull out a Turkish Delight coconut abomination or the triple caramel supreme with double cream? Why not stick in your hand and chance your arm? Oh yeah, because I put my pet gator Grant in there… Things overheard during Euro…
So Portugal took the Euro 2016 trophy. So the limping Ronaldo took all credit as he wept, partially through pain but mostly the joy of victory. So far, so utterly predictable, humdrum, run of the mill, ordinary, beige and any other semi-descriptive term callously ripped from the ancient stone tablets of our prehistoric thesaurus (rex)….
I stand, utterly transfixed by the (presumably) deliberate contrast of imagery. As ‘Three Lions’ provides a bittersweet soundtrack to England’s nut-crushing defeat at the hands of Germany in World Cup 2010, I’m reminded of that pertinent and oft-cited lyric: ’30 years of hurt never stopped me dreaming’. It’s no coincidence that co-writers of said melodious…
They’re an ambitious lot, that bunch at All Gone Latics. Upon reading 101 Goals’ list of the funniest Euro 2016 fantasy football team names, they instantly boasted they could defeat the nation’s collective wit at this punny little game. As for how successful those narcissistic website editors have actually been, we’ll let you, the esteemed…
The Euros are here, and so is AGL’s obligatory preview podcast! This summer special edition was recorded at the Wacky Warehouse, Robin Park, a John Stones’s throw away from Stade DW on a suitably fiery spring afternoon. Dan, Kieran and Liam address a range of wacky topics including wild and windy pre-season tours, silly Euro…
Beatlemania, Henmania and Pottermania. All genuine crazes of generations long past, but nowhere near as widespread as the Griggmania rapidly infecting our planet via those there burning Internet tubes. When an association football player’s Wikipedia page is constantly being wiped and replaced with the text ‘HES ON FIER NANANANA’, you know you’ve stumbled upon a…
Football journalists are seldom right. Not that your ‘reporter’ is anything close to a football journalist, but that didn’t stop him getting his (admittedly tongue in cheek, nay, flippant) predictions wildly incorrect. Hack From The Future Part I Since a good writer should learn from their mistakes, let’s take a closer look at why your…