Category: Latics
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Strange things cable network commentators say Vol. IX
*Names altered to protect identities. “Even though Team ST are trailing Team WA 4-1, there is always the chance there will be a repeat of Team WA’s dramatic concession of three late goals to Team SU two months ago. Because things like that happen every week in this league… I think. This is the first […]
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Wigan 1-0 Rochdale: Alternative match highlights
You’ve seen the official 2 minute match highlights package. But now, here’s the stuff they deemed too sexy for YouTube or even the Internet. Warning: contains Grant Holt David ‘Two Shots’ Perkins and Stephen ‘Not Neil’ Warnock each bursting through midfield with marauding 40 yard whippet runs. Who knew they were so quick? Yanic Wildschut […]
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The Paper Plane Saga Vol II: Morsy and Caldwell reveal all
If they aren’t shopping lists, and they aren’t crib notes for a forthcoming driving test, then what exactly could those little pieces of paper be all about? Once again, television cameras spotted Wigan Athletic players surreptitiously passing notes between themselves during the Rochdale game on Saturday. Cue wolf whistles from the East Stand, who only […]
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The Latics Renaissance is upon us
Have you ever taken Easter weekend off, only to thoroughly regret doing so when your inbox is piled to the roof on Tuesday morning? Well, that’s the regrettable situation poor Walsall could soon find themselves in. Owing to tedious international friendly commitments, the Saddlers don’t play at all over Easter – their next game is […]
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Love letters straight from Gary Caldwell’s heart: those elusive paper messages in full
Question of the Week: Just what was written on those little bits of paper Gary Caldwell was passing to the Wigan Athletic players during the match against Bradford on Saturday? You probably saw Calds carefully rip bits of paper from his flowery notebook before furtively shoving them into his unsuspecting players’ hands. But what exactly […]
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Exile on King St: A Matchday in the Life of David Sharpe
The elusive Davidus Chairmanus Sharpus doesn’t give many interviews. He’s very careful who he talks to about his nights out on King Street and jagerbombs in the Wembley royal box. I don’t know what ‘Jagger bombs’ are, but I presume they may be a rather explosive dance created by that happy clapping lead singer of […]
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It’s an Omen: Misadventures of the Wigan Athletic Goalkeeping Staff Vol I
As I thrust apart my curtains on Friday morning, I was greeted with an unsettling sight: snow, and plenty of it. “Hopefully this isn’t an omen,” I gulped while hurriedly thumbing the 24-hour forecast for Robin Park. Little did I know that mere miles from my darkened doorstep, an even more sinister omen was about […]
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Ten years is nothing: a Pollitt-ical retrospective of Highbury 2006
I can barely remember what happened last week, let alone a decade ago. But I recall vividly the events of January 2006, when Latics reached their first League Cup Final, squeaking past Arsenal over two legs. Aye – Neil Rimmer scored a first half hat trick in the first leg, while Ian Wright repeated that […]
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From the DW Stadium to Stamford Bridge: The Magic of the FA (Youth) Cup
Oooh, don’t they grow up so fast? One month they’re turning out against Wigan Athletic in the FA Youth Cup, the next they’re facing Chelsea’s first team in the actual FA Ben Watson Memorial Cup. On BBC HD TV at prime time Sunday afternoon, no less. Without wanting to take undue credit, I like to […]