Tag: Review

  • Wigan 0-0 Doncaster: Nil volentibus arduum

    Wigan 0-0 Doncaster: Nil volentibus arduum

    It’s an odd condition, new season optimism. Your team could take PR blow after painful footballing blow on the way to their worst season in two decades, but you retain that same cheerful outlook strolling to Robin Park for the first home game of a fresh league campaign. Perhaps it’s those vivid memories of the […]

  • QPR 1-1 Wigan: Pot split following photo finish

    QPR 1-1 Wigan: Pot split following photo finish

    OK, let’s get this out of the way before we go any further. For backing Harry the Viking instead of Roberto Goldback in yesterday’s Grand National, I am a disgrace to the club and shall spend the rest of the week perched on the naughty step next to that pile of dirty laundry and Dad’s […]

  • Wigan 1-0 Norwich: Canaries’ cold comfort

    Wigan 1-0 Norwich: Canaries’ cold comfort

    Don’t you just love the British weather? In preparation for Wigan’s first Premier League match post-vernal equinox, I bought in three crates of ice cream to keep cool on the toasty warm East Stand. But instead of worrying how I might sneak them past the turnstile stewards, I was left with three solid blocks of […]