Category: Featured
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Teletext: often emulated, never bettered.
“CORRECTION: Wigan Athletcc 5 (FIVE) Prest#n 0Jasob Robarts 903mins %%%” Last Sunday I shed a small block-shaped tear. 23rd October 2016 marked precisely 4 barren years since the day Internet yuppies callously killed our good friend Ceefax in cold pixellated blood. No more would we stare upon its up-to-the-minute football updates, anxiously hoping against every […]
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Let’s Talk About (Tele)Text, Baby
This article first appeared in All Gone Latics 01, October 2014. July 1998 was a wonderful month for the young JWAW. For one thing, he had the luxury of replacing his yellowing Wigan Evening Post squad poster with a shiny new model replete with glossy finish and 2-inch staple hole puncturing the unfortunate Staurt Barlow’s […]
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Man City 0-1 Wigan: Name on the cup
Now, I know what you’re thinking. “How on earth did he have time to travel home and type up this article so quickly?” Well, it’s quite simple, really – I ‘borrowed’ Uncle Dave’s helicopter from the roof of the town hall and parked it behind the Wembley arch so nobody would know. There was a […]
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Progress With Unity Wigan Athletic Podcast: FA Cup Final quotes compilation
Here’s something to get you in the mood while you’re travelling down to London via bus, train or penny farthing, a selection of FA Cup-related comments from the last four months of the Progress With Unity Podcast. Let’s get to Wembley! YouTube version Road to the Final
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Things overheard on the terraces at Macclesfield v Wigan
Living a life of luxury at the DW Stadium has spoiled us somewhat. I miss the days of standing out on the urine-soaked, cramped terraces, blokes blowing smoke in your face and spilling beer on your brand new bright white jacket when a goal is scored. Well maybe not for those reasons, but the general […]