Tag: Beamback

  • Norwich 2 Wigan 1: Law of the Beamback

    “An away draw is worth 30,000 Championship points. And free pie and peas at half time.” …So goes the Ancient Wiganese proverb, the revered Law of the Beamback. Though this may at first seem erroneous, Statman’s trusty exercise book seems to indicate that ‘beamed back’ Latics matches are three and a half times as tough […]

  • Brighton 1-0 Wigan: Beam me back (to 2006), Scotty

    Brighton 1-0 Wigan: Beam me back (to 2006), Scotty

    It’s only on a bitterly cold south coast Tuesday evening you realise that winter has truly struck. Not that I was anywhere other than Wigan tonight, but if the Falmer Stadium is anything like my house I’m sure they’d have been cursing the lack of cavity wall insulation. Apparently mud huts aren’t eligible for British […]