Tag: Manchester United
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Manchester United 4-0 Wigan: Old Trafford hoodoo still going strong
Wigan Athletic, “relegation candidates” once more. Sigh. Just for once I would love to take my seat in the East Stand, fizzy beverage in hand, and enjoy a month of Latics matches without the lingering thought that a loss could send us spiralling towards a WWF-esque relegation fistfight. Just for once I would like to […]
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From the North Stand: Jordan Street of Old Trafford Faithful
It’s been a while since JWAW’s last From the North Stand interview – more than two years, in fact. But now the time has come for its triumphant return to comed- er, I mean, this website. The special seat I keep reserved bang in the centre of the North Stand has once again been dusted […]
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Progress With Unity Podcast No. 8: Man United v Wigan preview
Exciting news, pie men. I was lucky enough to be asked to participate in the latest edition of Vital‘s Progress With Unity Podcast. Actually, I was on last week’s as well, but neglected to notify you of this event in time. I have retrospectively added a post for that, which you can find here. In […]
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Wigan 1-0 Man United: Yes, really
Shaun Maloney’s sublime second-half strike sunk league leaders Manchester United to lift Latics out of the relegation zone for the first time in 2012. Victor Moses earlier had a goal disallowed in controversial circumstances, but fortune fell firmly in favour of Wigan as replays strongly indicated that the corner leading to the in-form Scot’s goal […]
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Man United 5-0 Wigan: Not as bad as it sounds, honest. Well alright then, it was pretty bad
Before today’s game, it had been precisely five years since Wigan’s last goal at Old Trafford. A Leighton Baines penalty on Boxing Day 2006 had no effect on that match’s final outcome, as Latics went on to lose the game 3-1. Still, it was the closest Wigan have ever come to tasting any sort of […]
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Wigan 0-4 Man United: All about the Red Devils (no surprise there then)
I swear I’ll never fully understand the mainstream media as long as I live. Prior to last week’s clash with Liverpool, every big time Charlie and rag tag red top was writing us off before a ball had been kicked. What happened? They ended up with egg on their faces as, by some fluke, Wigan […]
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From the creator of ‘that’ Howard Webb picture: An apology
They say everyone has their fifteen minutes of fame. Unfortunately, in my case, it’s more slight notability, not for my rapidly deteriorating Wigan Athletic weblog, but as the creator of that Howard Webb image. You know, the one on all the back pages of today’s papers and all over the national newswires? All I can […]
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Manchester United 2-0 Wigan: Red and Dead, but little Redemption
If we’re being totally honest, this was pretty much always going to be a blank weekend for Latics, with next week’s trip to West Ham seeing the resumption of our season proper. Except perhaps not. Perhaps Wigan could do the unthinkable and somehow come away from Old Trafford with something more than a Wayne Rooney […]
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Manchester United 5-0 Wigan: Not in the picture
Even the most hardened of Latics fans will admit there was an air of inevitability over this fixture. If we’re being honest, we all knew Manchester United were going to play some excellent football, in all probability leading to a comfortable win over the Latics. In fact, you didn’t exactly have to be Stephen Hawking […]
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Wigan v Manchester United (22nd August 2009) photos
Well, I can’t say these are as good as the professional ones from the official website (they aren’t even from the actual game), but there’s a few little gems in there. Hopefully this will be more of a regular thing, depending on how many photos I can snap during the forthcoming season. As ever, high […]