Month: February 2013
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Progress With Unity Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 34: Hats off to Reading
I am noticing a worrying trend on the Progress With Unity Podcast. Do we have to perpetuate this fatuous Wigan ‘pie-eaters’ myth with constant references to said baked pastry dish? Are we really the group of illiterate, illarterate meat ‘n’ tater-obsessed walking stereotypes those red-tops and ex-pundits make us out to be? No, don’t answer […]
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Reading 0-3 Wigan: Wheel of Fortune turning in Latics’ favour?
Statistics are great if you’re a Championship Manager fanatic, but football matches are not automatically generated on a video screen (at least not yet). Heading into this afternoon’s potential Blockbuster, form suggested a tough weekend in store for the ailing Wigan Athletic, their very FA Premier League existence in Jeopardy. Recent league fortunes could not […]
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Progress With Unity Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 33: Taking the Biscuit
Without PWU regular Paul to chip in with the odd vaguely relevant sardonic comment, surviving team members are left to plumb the very depths of podcastdom with terrible jokes about Ozzy Osbourne and chocolate biscuits. Oh well, at least it’s better than Kevin Friend postman puns, or even farts in lifts. (I swear I will […]
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Huddersfield 1-4 Wigan: Lissome Latics pass screen test
Ahh, the FA Cup – the ‘welcome distraction’ that is in reality an exercise in sheer frustration. As the ‘smaller’, lower ranked league side, you seldom receive that sliver of fortune one requires when faced with the might of Premier League opposition… much to the obvious delight of many a Latics fan. In what has […]
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Progress With Unity Latics Podcast No. 32: Palm Springs, Sydney, Beech Hill
For the first time in its short and distinguished history, the Progress With Unity Podcast reaches beyond the confines of this humble town to bring you correspondence from the Commonwealth. The Western and Eastern Hemispheres are aptly represented by Adam and Tom, whose respective towns of residence in the US and Australia provide a welcome […]
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Chelsea 4-1 Wigan: Chelsea lay the smackdown, again
2:50pm. An expectant Stamford Bridge eagerly awaits the entrance of Wigan’s gladiators and Chelsea’s lions for a potentially season-defining contest. This is almost certainly the case for Rafa Benitez, who is one narrow loss away from burning chips at Burger World this time next week, at least if you believe all you read in the […]
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Progress With Unity Latics Podcast No. 31: It’s been emotional
Following another Progress With Unity all-nighter, half the team resembled a boxer who had just completed ten bruising rounds with the heavyweight champion. Events of last Saturday tempered any positivity that may have been starting to build as Latics begin their ascent of that metaphorical wall of this time last year, and that now-traditional end-of-season […]
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Wigan 2-2 Southampton: Lucky Latics pinch prized point
The January transfer window firmly locked for safety, we now move into the ‘interesting’ part of the season. It is the time when Wigan start to produce their best football as the threat of relegation transforms into a very real possibility with every point dropped. Or so one would hope. Latics, however, remain undoubtedly unsettled […]