Month: April 2014

  • Wigan 1-0 Leeds: Before they were famous

    Wigan 1-0 Leeds: Before they were famous

    You’ve probably seen them shuffling through the pubs and restaurants of Wigan town centre in their nylon ‘I heart Division Three’ T-shirts and faux-plastic ‘Hutchings 4Ever’ baseball caps. They’re the Latics hipsters, a hardy bunch of decaf-fuelled neo-Nathan Barley types that won’t be happy until the club returns to the ‘Golden Land’ of League Two. […]

  • PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 82: Pre-Pre-Wembley Edition

    PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 82: Pre-Pre-Wembley Edition

    I awoke this morning with thoughts of Wembley running through my addled mind, visions of McManaman wheeling away to scenes of great jubilation in the top tier. But with a couple of monster Championship encounters first up, there’s no time for the bittersweet symptoms of cup fever quite yet! Since two home games precede the […]

  • Wigan 2-2 Leicester: No joke

    Wigan 2-2 Leicester: No joke

    Okay, you can breathe out again. Rest assured there will be no ‘hilarious‘ April Fools’ gags in today’s post – after all, this website is one big joke for all 204 days of the year. And besides, it’s considered bad luck to play pranks *after* the first day of April, and we need to save […]