Without PWU regular Paul to chip in with the odd vaguely relevant sardonic comment, surviving team members are left to plumb the very depths of podcastdom with terrible jokes about Ozzy Osbourne and chocolate biscuits. Oh well, at least it’s better than Kevin Friend postman puns, or even farts in lifts. (I swear I will…
For the first time in its short and distinguished history, the Progress With Unity Podcast reaches beyond the confines of this humble town to bring you correspondence from the Commonwealth. The Western and Eastern Hemispheres are aptly represented by Adam and Tom, whose respective towns of residence in the US and Australia provide a welcome…
Following another Progress With Unity all-nighter, half the team resembled a boxer who had just completed ten bruising rounds with the heavyweight champion. Events of last Saturday tempered any positivity that may have been starting to build as Latics begin their ascent of that metaphorical wall of this time last year, and that now-traditional end-of-season…
Greetings from the past, where we are presently discussing probable transfer targets. The suggestions are becoming just as ludicrous as those banded around the Twittersphere (“McCarthy to Man United, hahagh!“) and even those ‘done deals’ of the tabloid newspapers. It can only mean one thing – transfer deadline day! Rest assured there will be hundreds…
Oh come on, even the most optimistic of fans like to indulge in a spot of self-pity once in a while! Your stand-in host, Stuttering Bob (AKA that annoying Jesus weblog bloke), is on hand to lend a nervous uncertainty to proceedings and cite a variety of unresearched pseudo-facts. Delightful! Don’t get me wrong, this…
A special prize of ten Tesco beef* burgers goes to Mr Barry Worthington, who managed to edit this week’s PWU Podcast down to a mere(!) 47 minutes. The original recording session was blighted by prank phone calls, low-flying helicopters and libellous allegations, taking it well over the hour mark. But thanks to Barry’s technical wizardry,…
After doing the Bournemouth game to death in a previous on-location bonus episode, the Progress With Unity team pick any remaining rotting, maggot-ridden flesh from the bones of its corpse. It’s a lot more appealing than I just made it sound, I promise. Other, more light-hearted(?) topics of note include Mauro Boselli’s actual transfer fee…
Well forgive me for getting too wrapped up in the spirit of the FA Cup, but as is becoming a worrying theme on this ‘website’, I feel yet more apologies are in order. Mr Bobby Madley, television replays have shown that at least one of your contentious decisions was warranted, though the other is still…
Welcome back, Latic fanatics, for a whole new season of the Progress With Unity Podcast! Thankfully, the festive period has been salvaged by a win over Villa, so mass depression has been successfully avoided for the time being. In fact, the overall atmosphere in the PWU studio was one of cautious optimism, but perhaps that’s…
Decimated by man flu and fallout from (admittedly muted) Boxing Day celebrations, the Progress With Unity team crawl wearily back to the studio, aspirin in hand, for a bit of post-Xmas musing. Excuse the occasionally clipped, slurred speech as we frequently had to be revived with piping hot tea and whisky just to make it…
Festive greetings, podcasters! Recent bad results (and referees) got you down? Not to worry, settle down with a container of your favourite beverage –lukewarm or cold– and enjoy this, the Progress With Unity Christmas Quiz. It’s a bumper 50-minute special with 25 questions to tax the most ardent of Wigan supporters, but you don’t have…
As the predicted end of all human civilisation –henceforth to be known as ‘The Massacre of the DW‘– rapidly approaches, the Progress With Unity team reconvene to scrutinise another slightly disappointing weekend over a Christmas whisky or two. Spirits are quickly raised, however, by breaking news that the Boxing Day bananas will be allowed entry…