Jesus Was a Wiganer

Month: March 2010

  • Manchester City 3-0 Wigan: Come back, Chris, all is forgiven

    Manchester City 3-0 Wigan: Come back, Chris, all is forgiven

    Warning: this report is, as usual, heavily biased towards Wigan. Man City fans, prepare to be irritated. Now, you’re looking at the scoreline from this game and I know what you’re thinking; Latics were absolutely hammered by a City side of superior quality with world class players and a hundred times more footballing nouse. Well, […]

  • View from the North Stand: Paul Doleman of Bert Trautmann’s Neck

    View from the North Stand: Paul Doleman of Bert Trautmann’s Neck

    For longer than I can remember, Wigan Athletic have had a special relationship with Man City that even George Bush and Tony Blair might recognise as a ‘friendship’. You see, it may be slightly off the radar to newer Latics fans (such as I, in fact), but the Blues have always been there to lend […]

  • Wigan v Aston Villa (16th March 2010) photos

    Wigan v Aston Villa (16th March 2010) photos

    A few snaps from the buildup to the home game with Villa earlier this month. Nothing particularly exciting to note here, except for the fact I used the occasion to experiment with flash settings, which wasn’t entirely (or even moderately) successful – hence the blur in some pics. Blasted poor photography skills/cheapo camera/floodlights. Nevertheless… Don’t […]

  • Wigan Athletic Meet the Players Day (18th March 2010) [Video & photos]

    Wigan Athletic Meet the Players Day (18th March 2010) [Video & photos]

    The special ‘Meet the Players’ event held at the club shop last Thursday was only supposed to involve Maynor Figueroa and Hendry Thomas, but most of the Latics first team were also there to do some PR stuff. I kept hearing the media dudes talking to Graham Lovett about Boyce and The Gaffer, plus I […]

  • Wigan v Burnley (20th March 2010) photos

    Wigan v Burnley (20th March 2010) photos

    Welcome back to JWAW, the shamelessly Latics-biased site with absolutely no annoying popups or adverts for completely irrelevant stuff you don’t want. Today we’ve got a few pics from the buildup to Saturday’s Wigan-Burnley game which are, as usual, released under the Creative Commons license. This pretty much means you can use ’em for whatever […]

  • Wigan 1-0 Burnley: Rodders' late, late show

    Wigan 1-0 Burnley: Rodders' late, late show

    Reminiscing upon this afternoon’s match, I was reminded of an October afternoon in 2005 when Wigan, having had a so-so game, grabbed a last-minute winner to dispatch Fulham 1-0 at the JJB Stadium. Pascal Chimbonda, sneaking in at the back post, stole all three points to head the Latics into dreamland with their seventh win […]

  • Maynor Figueroa and Hendry Thomas at the club shop

    Maynor Figueroa and Hendry Thomas at the club shop

    Latics’ Honduran connection was out in force at the club shop today as Hendry Thomas and Maynor Figueroa were on hand to launch a limited edition poster celebrating Figs’ 60-yard goal against Stoke in December. Attendees could also attempt to recreate the wonder strike out in the DW car park, where a training goal had […]

  • Wigan 1-2 Aston Villa: Match report

    Wigan 1-2 Aston Villa: Match report

    As most anticipated, Aston Villa emerged with the spoils yesterday evening having looked the more likely in a game ultimately decided by a long-range second half James Milner effort. But it wasn’t as if Latics were played off the park – far from it. They could have even been 1-0 up going into the break […]

  • No time to mope: Villa preview

    You might still be getting over Saturday’s dismal day at the Reebok Stadium this afternoon, but it’s time to put that to the back of your mind because there’s the chance for Latics to erase that memory with a good show tomorrow evening. Precedent suggests the ‘one good game, one bad game’ pattern has returned […]

  • Bolton 4-0 Wigan: Business as usual

    Bolton 4-0 Wigan: Business as usual

    I just don’t get it. I mean, every other time we’ve managed to grab a win this season we have followed it up with a terrible result, so I suppose I shouldn’t really have expected anything else from this game. But man, talk about building ourselves up then tumbling down again in equally spectacular fashion. […]