Tag: Pre-season
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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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Merchandising, Catts and pre-season jitters
It’s only just struck me that Latics have decided to officially launch their new Dutch-inspired away strip the day after England played Holland in an international friendly. Either this is all one big coincidence or these marketing types really know what they’re doing. Actually, it’s more than likely the latter, as the kit launch even […]
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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 […]
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Latics' pre-season tour of Austria – Roundup
As we know, the early pre-season matches can’t be held as an indicator of how the rest of the season may pan out. The fact Wigan lost to FC Tiramasu isn’t really going to have much bearing on how we will fare against the likes of Man United in December and Chelsea in May, for […]