Tag: Friendlies
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Match preview: Wigan v Real Zaragoza [Pre-season friendly]
Good day fellow Latic fanatics and esteemed guests. I report to you from a rainy Hindley on the day of Wigan’s first and only home friendly (well, that’s if you don’t count the game at the Robin Park Arena) in preparation for the 2010/2011 campaign, which is now but ten days away. A report on […]
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Wigan v St. Mirren (8th August 2009) photos
Just catching up on some photos from the pre-season friendly against St. Mirren, which I never got round to uploading at the time. Illarterate Flickr account St Mirren photos @ Illarterate Flickr account
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Wigan 3-1 St. Mirren: Match report
There was a distinctly pre-season feel about this game: maybe it was the empty South and East Stands or the slightly below Premier League standard opposition that betrayed the match’s warmup status. But it was a game worth paying attention to for a number of reasons, not least the small but significant fact it was […]
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Wigan v St. Mirren match preview
First of all, I will say that I did not go to, or even listen to the Norwich match, hence the lack of a match report. Call me a fool, but I got confused and thought it was on Sunday for some reason. Thanks a lot Ceefax! Needless to say I’m going to heed my […]
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Preston 1-4 Wigan: You know when you've been Tangoed
Couldn’t make it to this game, unfortunately — something about trains being unreliable — but thanks to the wonders of technology I was able to listen to a (rather biased, but what else would you expect?) Wigan Athletic World broadcast via the official website. I do wish I could have been there, as all accounts […]
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Almeria pull out of friendly amid swine flu fears
Is the cancellation of Almeria’s pre-season tour of Britain a sign of things to come? Will further fixtures, perhaps competitive, be postponed or even cancelled as the deadly disease takes a grip on the country? Well, if you believe everything you read in the press, then yes, but I stopped taking tabloid filler as fact […]