Month: July 2016
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Thank you, Wigan – a message from the Superior One
Good morning, peasants of Wiggum. I, the Superior One, demand your undivided attention for a brief moment. My agent has ordered me to address you, the good residents of Hell, Lancashire. I am under strict instruction to pass on his- no sorry, *my* gratitude for your role in my personal travelling show. Without the bed […]
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AGL Media Podcast 05 – Magic Weekend
“It’s not about the result, it’s about the cha-cha-chinnnng! I mean, er… the experience gained.” – Anonymous on pre-season friendlies with Man United and Liverpool. “Hey kid, fancy one of these scarves for today’s episode of the AGL Media Podcast? Look, they’re half All Gone Latics, half Jesus Was a Wiganer. If you don’t like […]
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Wigan 0 Liverpool 2: Welcome to Hell
Welcome to Wigan. We don’t have a Waitrose, Harrods, John Lewis, Morrisons, an airport, a cathedral, a glass museum… or very much at all, come to think of it. But the one thing we do have, apart from the George Formby Memorial Pier, is football. From Wigan United (as opposed to Wigan-United) and Wigan Town […]
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Wigan 0 Manchester United 2: Too much respect
“The reason we struggled to beat any of the Big Four for so long,” spake the sage of Latics legend, “is because we gave them all too much respect.” I can’t remember whether it was Paul ‘2 Cup Finals’ Scharner or Arjan ‘2 Big Elbows’ de Zeeuw that uttered those fabled words. Which is tantamount […]
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Euro 2016: The Final Word
AKA a sublime chocolate box of random observations from the 2016 European Championships. Will you pull out a Turkish Delight coconut abomination or the triple caramel supreme with double cream? Why not stick in your hand and chance your arm? Oh yeah, because I put my pet gator Grant in there… Things overheard during Euro […]
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Players of Euro 2016: Alternative Edition
So Portugal took the Euro 2016 trophy. So the limping Ronaldo took all credit as he wept, partially through pain but mostly the joy of victory. So far, so utterly predictable, humdrum, run of the mill, ordinary, beige and any other semi-descriptive term callously ripped from the ancient stone tablets of our prehistoric thesaurus (rex). […]