Jesus Was a Wiganer

Tag: FA Cup

  • Wigan 3-3 MK Dons: FA Cup in the pink of health

    Wigan 3-3 MK Dons: FA Cup in the pink of health

    As Latics were cruelly consigned to the Premier League’s less wealthy ‘concrete car park training league’, there were concerns that it would be boring. “The football, and referees, are awful,” they said. While the latter is undoubtedly true (ooh, controversial? Nope), the former can be classed as utter nonsense – we have witnessed half a […]

  • Wigan Athletic’s FA Cup Homecoming [Photos] Part II

    Wigan Athletic’s FA Cup Homecoming [Photos] Part II

    Did you see the 4-page victory parade special in today’s Wigan Evening Post? Did you open the centre spread and try to spot yourself among the crowd? Because I did, and it’s like Where’s Wally? without the red stripy shirts – they were nowhere to be seen. I haven’t been back to the town centre […]

  • Wigan Athletic’s FA Cup Homecoming [Photos] Part I

    Wigan Athletic’s FA Cup Homecoming [Photos] Part I

    Seeing the FA Cup paraded around Market Place, just like we predicted on the PWU Podcast, was something of a surreal experience. Of course, we were never totally serious about it all, were we? The very notion of such a thing is foolish, surely? But no, this afternoon I got to see Arouna Kone balance […]

  • FA Cup Winners 2012-13 – Video evidence that it actually happened

    FA Cup Winners 2012-13 – Video evidence that it actually happened

    I have not been too well of late. Yesterday I was hallucinating that Wigan Athletic won the FA Cup so I think a trip to the doctor for stronger medication is in order. I am still unsure whether all that really did happen and that I will wake up tomorrow morning to news that Latics […]

  • Man City 0-1 Wigan: Name on the cup

    Man City 0-1 Wigan: Name on the cup

    Now, I know what you’re thinking. “How on earth did he have time to travel home and type up this article so quickly?” Well, it’s quite simple, really – I ‘borrowed’ Uncle Dave’s helicopter from the roof of the town hall and parked it behind the Wembley arch so nobody would know. There was a […]

  • Progress With Unity Wigan Athletic Podcast: FA Cup Final Sideshow Spesh!

    Progress With Unity Wigan Athletic Podcast: FA Cup Final Sideshow Spesh!

    Ladies and gentlemen, it is within sight. In less than two days’ time, Wigan Athletic will be playing their part in English football’s greatest sideshow, the FA Challenge Cup Final. Would you ever have believed that as you trudged back from the DW unhappy with a draw against Bournemouth all those months ago? Yes, there […]

  • JWAW’s (Semi Final) Wembley Road Trip in pics

    JWAW’s (Semi Final) Wembley Road Trip in pics

  • Millwall 0-2 Wigan: Is this the real life?

    Millwall 0-2 Wigan: Is this the real life?

    To relieve some pre-Wembley tension, I took a walk round Wigan town centre on Friday lunchtime. Far from taking my mind off the game, the scarf sellers bellowing ‘get yer Latics flags ‘ere!’ from every street corner only served to remind me how dear the Wigan public hold a Wembley away day to their hearts. […]

  • Screw the Premier League – Wigan are going to Wembley!

    Screw the Premier League – Wigan are going to Wembley!

    Look, I just had to break the sequence of match reports and podcasts to talk about Wigan’s greatest FA Cup weekend in my lifetime. I wouldn’t be a bona fide Latics blogger if I didn’t add to Saturday’s uncharacteristically staid post, which you can chalk up to sheer disbelief – I certainly didn’t expect anything […]

  • Everton 0-3 Wigan: Cry God for Bobby, Wigan and Uncle Dave!

    Everton 0-3 Wigan: Cry God for Bobby, Wigan and Uncle Dave!

    There must be something seriously wrong – Latics on terrestrial television twice in one season? Somebody at ITV Sport knew the much-anticipated Wigan Time was long overdue. A series of excellent performances in what must be Wigan’s greatest cup season since… ever meant any confidence, though cautious, was not necessarily misplaced. There is a marked […]