Month: September 2009
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Wigan 3-1 Chelsea: Well, that was a pleasant surprise, wasn’t it?
I’ll come clean: I wrote the following passage at around 1PM in anticipation of another Latics defeat. I wanted to try and get this post out of the way as soon as possible, as I predicted I would be too depressed to write it at 6PM. How wrong was I, eh? Dear bloke on the […]
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Arsenal 4-0 Wigan: Match report
Before this afternoon’s game, all the talk was of Robin Van Persie. I have no idea why, because he was perhaps the single worst player on the field today — worse even than vast majority of the Latics players — kicking thin air and falling over at the slightest hint of physical contact. For this […]
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Wigan v West Ham United (12th September 2009) photos
Premier League match report. Official match action – Latics website Illarterate Flickr account
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Wigan 1-0 West Ham: Match report
It wasn’t exactly the kind of performance that’s going to get you in the first few games on Match of the Day — especially considering the high number of goals scored in the Premier League today — but it was Latics’ first home points of the season, and that’s all that matters. You can grit […]
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International week: a chance to regroup
The past two weeks have been something of a pleasant break for Latics fans, not least because they give us the chance to catch our breath after the non-stop barrage of fixtures the beginning of the season normally brings. There’s been the usual ups and downs, talk of hirings, firings and rollockings as the Latics […]