Tag: NK Maribor
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PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 68: Keeping Up With Pa Jones
My goodness, this Championship campaign has been so action-packed I’ve almost forgotten the Premier League exists. There were so many fallow periods last season that we had to make do with poxy Man City v Liverpool weekday matches with their bog standard quality of football and £30m+ players. No such nonsense this year, for we […]
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NK Maribor 2-1 Wigan: When in doubt, pull a card out
A drunken sage once claimed that history is ‘more or less bunk’. Seeing as he was in the Springfield at the time, I’m fairly sure he was referring to football and its obsession with the present day. Case in point: Maribor v Latics. Potentially Wigan’s final European game for a long time, with progression to […]
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PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 67: Radio Ca-Ca
Progress With Unity toasts its second new manager in the usual fashion – with a pint in the Springfield. Yep, after last week’s torrent of criticism aimed in the general direction of that bloke we’ve already forgotten about, the team have been unceremoniously banned from their usual Book Cycle studios! Don’t worry, much like… [insert […]
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Progress With Unity Podcast No. 58: In praise of ‘John’ Beausejour
Be it for reasons good or bad, there is one name that seems to crop up week after week on the Progress With Unity Podcast. I’m not talkin’ ’bout Mr Ref Ree, whomever he may be, I’m talking ’bout Jeen. Or to be more precise, Shortsman‘s preferred left wing utility player Jean Beausejour – and […]
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Wigan 3-1 NK Maribor: In Association With JWAW Removals Inc. (Est. 1984)
The older generation often speak of games that live long in their memory, untinged by the passage of years. The younger generation generally speak of Big Brother, but we’re not here to offer damning indictments of society, at least not today. In the spirit of the very manager that guided Wigan to this competition, I […]
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Progress With Unity Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 57: No smoking, drinking or swearing
Important notice: Alcoholic beverages are banned from this blog post under Europa League regulations. In addition, for the duration of Wigan’s time in the competition, this website will also be renamed ‘The (Unofficial) Wigan Athletic Moan Centre‘ to conform with sponsorship guidelines. I’m joking, of course. JWAW exists outside the official ‘bubble’ so I can […]