Tag: Mike Pollitt
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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 […]