Spring is in the air, and it can only mean one thing – Wigan Time! The Progress With Unity team are jubilant following an outstanding weekend in Liverpool, and struggle to wipe broad smiles from their faces as they discuss those five magnificent minutes that demolished Everton. Any nerves ahead of the latest in a…
Look, I just had to break the sequence of match reports and podcasts to talk about Wigan’s greatest FA Cup weekend in my lifetime. I wouldn’t be a bona fide Latics blogger if I didn’t add to Saturday’s uncharacteristically staid post, which you can chalk up to sheer disbelief – I certainly didn’t expect anything…
There must be something seriously wrong – Latics on terrestrial television twice in one season? Somebody at ITV Sport knew the much-anticipated Wigan Time was long overdue. A series of excellent performances in what must be Wigan’s greatest cup season since… ever meant any confidence, though cautious, was not necessarily misplaced. There is a marked…
As the Continental Food Market returns to Wigan (springbok burgers included), Progress With Unity reconvene to build a Scouse sandwich of Luis Suarez and FA Cup magic with a sprinkling of Champions League controversy. Be warned, it’s both sweet and sour. Opinions are divided on this weekend’s quarter final showdown at Goodison, while there is…
Anybody watching the BBC News Channel in the past few days can’t have failed to notice a particularly colourful character at the Eastleigh by-election. Ray Hall of the Beer, Baccy and Crumpets Party outperformed the English Democrats, Church of Militant Elvis and even the Monster Raving Loonies, tallying 235 votes on his way to… wait…
I am noticing a worrying trend on the Progress With Unity Podcast. Do we have to perpetuate this fatuous Wigan ‘pie-eaters’ myth with constant references to said baked pastry dish? Are we really the group of illiterate, illarterate meat ‘n’ tater-obsessed walking stereotypes those red-tops and ex-pundits make us out to be? No, don’t answer…
Statistics are great if you’re a Championship Manager fanatic, but football matches are not automatically generated on a video screen (at least not yet). Heading into this afternoon’s potential Blockbuster, form suggested a tough weekend in store for the ailing Wigan Athletic, their very FA Premier League existence in Jeopardy. Recent league fortunes could not…
Without PWU regular Paul to chip in with the odd vaguely relevant sardonic comment, surviving team members are left to plumb the very depths of podcastdom with terrible jokes about Ozzy Osbourne and chocolate biscuits. Oh well, at least it’s better than Kevin Friend postman puns, or even farts in lifts. (I swear I will…
Ahh, the FA Cup – the ‘welcome distraction’ that is in reality an exercise in sheer frustration. As the ‘smaller’, lower ranked league side, you seldom receive that sliver of fortune one requires when faced with the might of Premier League opposition… much to the obvious delight of many a Latics fan. In what has…
For the first time in its short and distinguished history, the Progress With Unity Podcast reaches beyond the confines of this humble town to bring you correspondence from the Commonwealth. The Western and Eastern Hemispheres are aptly represented by Adam and Tom, whose respective towns of residence in the US and Australia provide a welcome…
2:50pm. An expectant Stamford Bridge eagerly awaits the entrance of Wigan’s gladiators and Chelsea’s lions for a potentially season-defining contest. This is almost certainly the case for Rafa Benitez, who is one narrow loss away from burning chips at Burger World this time next week, at least if you believe all you read in the…
Following another Progress With Unity all-nighter, half the team resembled a boxer who had just completed ten bruising rounds with the heavyweight champion. Events of last Saturday tempered any positivity that may have been starting to build as Latics begin their ascent of that metaphorical wall of this time last year, and that now-traditional end-of-season…