Month: August 2015
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Wigan 1-0 Crewe: Breakout
Remember when your school teacher used to say, “if you don’t like it, you’re free to leave at any time”? Of course, nobody ever did – they were too scared to even contemplate asking for a pencil sharpener. Tales of kids being banished to Darkest Westhoughton were more than enough to dissuade any potential deserters… […]
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PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 132: Formation damnation
“Objectively, the number 451 is larger than 442.” Please discuss this statement at great length with incredible fanboyish enthusiasm/aggression until you lose all sensation in your fingers and find yourself camped permanently at Christopher Park with just two extra large packs of budget brand tortilla chips and last Wednesday’s underpants to your name. Subjectively, there […]
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PWU Podcast Special: Interview with Aussie Latic Craig Fillingham
G’day, mates! It’s all fine and dandy for us Wiganers that reside a relative fish and chip wrapper’s throw from that hub of all Latics activity, the DW Stadium. But now we’re back in England’s third division, spare a thought for the exiled fan living thousands of miles away on some remote island named after […]
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Gillingham 2-0 Wigan: Comic belief
It’s no fun when we win. Northern stand up tradition dictates that you must chain derogatory remarks like Wojciech Szczesny does cigarettes… but it’s hard to do that when Wigan Athletic have just beaten Scunthorpe 3-0. Not that I claim to be one of these ‘comedians’ (I have trouble sitting down, never mind standing up), […]
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PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 131: Pandora’s Box
Wow, would you believe it’s… (looks at watch) …Friday evening already? But before you pack your baked bean sandwiches for tomorrow’s visit to Gillingham, we have another of those ‘live from the DeeDub with added background noise’ editions you all love so much. Following Mick’s praise of the Wigan Athletic hospitality ‘system’, we were gifted […]
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Wigan 3-0 Scunthorpe: Reclusivity agreement
Oh, didn’t you hear? Wigan Athletic has become reclusive now. The newspapers no longer write about it, television presenters barely mention it and not even regional radio stations seem to care about our FA Cup heroes of 2013. There can be only one reason – the club has retreated to its mud hut for an […]
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Wigan 0-0 Doncaster: Nil volentibus arduum
It’s an odd condition, new season optimism. Your team could take PR blow after painful footballing blow on the way to their worst season in two decades, but you retain that same cheerful outlook strolling to Robin Park for the first home game of a fresh league campaign. Perhaps it’s those vivid memories of the […]
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PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 130: Slurred gratification
“No! I will not sit around and wait until Wigan get better. I want us to play well now, yesterday and the day after tomorrow. Only victory shall suffice, and anything else is a sackable offence. Must… win… nooowww…” Okay, calm down there, inner monologue… oh dear, looks like I’ve been playing far too much […]
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Wigan 1-2 Bury: Mild in the aisles
Good morning and welcome to Supermarket Sweep, with me, Dale Winton! Yes, those crazy marketing execs have briefly revived this urban kleptomaniac’s dream of a game show for the purpose of a tired joke on a sub-Geocities backwater internet blogsite. Incidentally, don’t expect further episodes as we’re using cameramen’s packed lunches to stock the shelves, […]
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Coventry 2-0 Wigan: Experimentalism
I have a funny feeling this will be Wigan Athletic’s ‘realistic’ season. You know when you make a prediction and someone immediately responds with “is that what you realistically anticipate?” Well, I have yet to hear such a challenge, as due to The Season That Time (Hopefully) Forgot, expectations have once again been reset to […]