Tag: Watford
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PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 120: Spectacle-tacular
At this moment, supporting Wigan Athletic is like walking around with three-inch thick lenses – everything is magnified a thousandfold. Those little misplaced passes and wonderful double saves become heart-rendingly monstrous as that May deadline appears on the watery horizon. You tread carefully for fear of bumping into Mr Fulham or Dr Rotherham, inadvertently knocking […]
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PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 119: Under con-troll
Mr Whelan would make a great stand-up comedian. Never before have his improvisational skills been more apparent than at 2:55pm on Saturday afternoon at the nightclub that is the DW Stadium. People jeering behind your back? Remind them of the solitary advantage you have over them – that they haven’t won the FA Cup in […]
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PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 110: Holt Back T’Night (well, next month)
It may not look it, but this is actually the Progress With Unity Christmas special. Sadly for a ‘radio’ ‘show’, our hilarious high jinks were limited to mostly visual pranks such as photocopying sheet music (which I believe is still punishable by Chinese burn) and hiding staplers in the reference section. These are the advantages […]
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Watford 2-1 Wigan: False memory
I have to admit – I had no idea what ‘false 9’ meant. Was it a parallel universe version of Real Madrid, or maybe the correct answer to a multiple choice quiz with no questions? In hindsight, the latter was unlikely as it raises almost as many queries as your typical website editors’ forum. Was […]
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PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 109: Monster Glunch
These days, PWU could easily stand for ‘Philosophical Wibbling Unchained’, what with all the high class ‘banter’ being thrown around like a Wellington full of jam at a village fête. The Book Cycle is becoming like an exclusive golf club for bitter, moaning northerners lamenting the demise of decent football at the DW Stadium. Except […]
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PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 81: Toilet Thursday
Now, I know what you’re all thinking: “that Dan bloke takes longer unscheduled toilet breaks than the England cricket team after a Saturday night down at the local watering hole (allegedly).” Well, the truth is that I left the refrigerator running… yes, he’s in training for the Great North Run! Badum tish. It’s all a […]
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Wigan 2-1 Watford: The road to the Prem is paved with artistic pretension
In these times of squad-threatening injuries, you’re thankful of Owen Coyle. No, really – before you all tune out, just imagine the pickle we would find ourselves choking on had he not made all those signings in the summer. Sorry, you know full well I said that to grab your attention. But the much-discussed tiredness […]
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PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 80: Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
Crikey, 80 episodes old today? Well, you’re only as old as the pop singer you feel, and the Progress With Unity Podcast team are as chipper as Elton John in his prime. It Ain’t Gonna be Easy for Latics to conjure fresh legs, though the signing of Jack Collison and promise of 33%(?) more rest […]
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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 […]
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Watford 1-0 Wigan: …And the other half? Fate.
What’s this, a 3pm Saturday kickoff? I haven’t seen one of those since the TV-less bad old days of shin-splitting leather balls and sellotape crossbars. Yes, such things did exist long before employers were shelling out £77million for someone to sit on a centrally heated glorified car seat to watch other, more expensive players lose […]