This post is a shoutout to Barry AKA Worbo, host and editor of the Progress With Unity Podcast. Often it may seem there is little point attempting to keep on topic, for when seven shouty(ish) blokes sit round a table to talk about Wigan Athletic, conversation naturally drifts to biscuits and officials who would be…
*Nervously taps fingers on desk, grimaces* OK. Having spent the last… ten seconds deliberating over which angle to approach this article, I have decided to risk the ire of all three of my faithful readers by frequently inserting groan-inducing references to a certain mildly-newsworthy event involving Wiganers that took place yesterday afternoon. Hence, a fair…
‘On location’ editions are frequently fraught with danger. Mr Tannoy Man always wants to voice his opinion, which would be fine, but I’m not sure the PWU listenership are too interested in a double-parked Renault Clio, registration PUI1 9TY. And that’s not to mention the brand new, state-of-the-art hand dryers. As much as I love…
Finished re-arranging dust in the general vicinity of your boots yet? Good, because Tuesday’s here already and it’s time to moan about the referee/Owen Coyle/the price of pies (delete as appropriate) again! If I remember correctly –and I probably don’t because I went to the game in a virus-induced, zombified state–, the last time Wigan…
Who needs that fancy ‘pass and fall over’ Premier League football when you have the infinitely more satisfying hack n’ slash, hoofitup punchfest that is the Championship? I know that defence is more iffy than the one commanded by Adrian Lopez against QPR last year, but it’s the prerogative of a Wigan Athletic supporter to…
“Don’t concern yourself too much, it’s only a sideshow.” But what a sideshow, eh? Yep, it’s time for me to gush about Wembley again, so skip forward to… August 2032 when I will finally stop. And that’ll only be because I’m dead. You can write about the league all you like, and I will continue…
Earlier this year an inconceivable FA Cup victory, last week a stonking start to the Championship campaign, this week a visit from the Prime Minister. This little town is really moving up in the world for the correct reasons. And then you have the PWU Podcast, but the less said about that, the better. The…
Even after seeing your team win the FA Cup just months earlier, there is no better feeling than waking up on the first morning of the new football season. Not even the prospect of starting two weeks earlier for Wigan’s (glorious?) return to the Championship can blemish the refreshing sensation that puts a spring in…
Football’s back, baby, and that can only mean one thing… the long-awaited return of the critically acclaimed* Progress With Unity Podcast! Apologies if that news was so exciting you spat your coffee all over your tablet PC/mp3 player/gramophone. Provide me with your postal address and I’ll steal your iden– erm, send you something cool to…
Jetlag can be a real problem. I should know, I’m jelly-legged after just a short trip down the high street in a shopmobility buggy (not that I’ve been stealing my grandad’s scooter again). But no, the only time I ever left the country was when I got lost in the Welsh part of Wrexham –…
Just like how DC Thomson always released a ‘Summer Holiday’ edition of their usual publications, Progress With Unity attempts in vain to fill the rather large gap between football and football with a healthy dose of juicy speculation. And maybe some football as well, but that takes something of a boisterous back seat as the…
*Snores loudly* Huh, wha? Grumble! How dare you wake me from my summertime slumber! Like hedgehogs, us football bloggers like to hibernate during fallow periods; it prevents us from losing touch with reality when the madness of the season begins in earnest sometime after July. Or maybe even earlier, if you’re Swansea. Don’t quote me…