Jesus Was a Wiganer

Category: Reminiscence

  • Pies, prophecies and postman puns: 100 episodes of the PWU Podcast

    Pies, prophecies and postman puns: 100 episodes of the PWU Podcast

    This article first appeared in All Gone Latics 01, October 2014. I wasn’t at Sharpy’s Restaurant back in July 2012, when the Progress With Unity Wigan Athletic Podcast was first pitched to Vital Latics webmaster Barry Worthington. His moderately popular web radio show ‘Latics Speyk’ had recently disappeared from the internet in mysterious circumstances, restoring […]

  • Roberto’s ‘Other’ Victories

    Roberto’s ‘Other’ Victories

    This article first appeared in All Gone Latics 06, May 2015. Everybody knows about Roberto Martinez’s greatest successes. They’re immortalised in banners above the Grand Arcade, specially themed season review DVDs and doodles of Ben ‘Maloneyinto’ Watson at the back of school exercise books from Hindley to Haydock. But what of those smaller mercies, the […]

  • Let’s Talk About (Tele)Text, Baby

    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 […]

  • Wembley Week Special: Pages From JWAW Text

    Wembley Week Special: Pages From JWAW Text

    That grandiose title might suggest a juicy week of freshly-squeezed opinion pieces here at JWAW, but don’t hold your breath – you can bet I’ll have exhausted my supply of Wembley-related quips by tomorrow lunchtime. Quick, Dave, pull up a bunch from last year so we can shamelessly rehash them! You may have noticed a […]

  • FA Cup Winners 2012-13 – Video evidence that it actually happened

    FA Cup Winners 2012-13 – Video evidence that it actually happened

    I have not been too well of late. Yesterday I was hallucinating that Wigan Athletic won the FA Cup so I think a trip to the doctor for stronger medication is in order. I am still unsure whether all that really did happen and that I will wake up tomorrow morning to news that Latics […]

  • Things overheard on the terraces at Macclesfield v Wigan

    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 […]

  • View from the North Stand: Paul Doleman of Bert Trautmann’s Neck

    View from the North Stand: Paul Doleman of Bert Trautmann’s Neck

    For longer than I can remember, Wigan Athletic have had a special relationship with Man City that even George Bush and Tony Blair might recognise as a ‘friendship’. You see, it may be slightly off the radar to newer Latics fans (such as I, in fact), but the Blues have always been there to lend […]

  • Twenty Minutes in May: Memories of 2005 [Video]

    For Latics fans old and new, a day that will live long in the memory is May 8 2005, the day Little Wigan reached the Promised Land: The Premier League. A couple of years ago, I started work on a short video to commemorate the Latics’ promotion. Don’t ask me why it took so long, […]

  • Ten Years of the JJB Stadium

    Ten Years of the JJB Stadium

    I wasn’t fortunate enough to be among the 6,700 spectators that witnessed Wigan play Manchester City at Springfield Park in May 1999. It was the biggest day in the club’s history to date in more ways than one – not only was a place in the Division 2 play-off finals up for grabs, but it […]