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Tag: Roberto Martinez

  • The Martinez fallacy (2009-2016): In memoriam

    “Football is a simple game, complicated by idiots in newspaper articles.” – Bill Shankly (paraphrased) It’s all over, ladies and gentlemen. When Dave-o Sharpe dispatched Gary ‘Kop Conqueror’ Caldwell with his final Rigalettos doggy bag, the Martinez line of succession officially ended. With the remaining branches finally hacked from Roberto’s family tree, a thrilling era […]

  • Roberto’s ‘Other’ Victories

    Roberto’s ‘Other’ Victories

    This article first appeared in All Gone Latics 06, May 2015. Everybody knows about Roberto Martinez’s greatest successes. They’re immortalised in banners above the Grand Arcade, specially themed season review DVDs and doodles of Ben ‘Maloneyinto’ Watson at the back of school exercise books from Hindley to Haydock. But what of those smaller mercies, the […]

  • Bye bye, Bobby: Out with the old, in with the… who?

    Bye bye, Bobby: Out with the old, in with the… who?

    *Snores loudly* Huh, wha? Grumble! How dare you wake me from my summertime slumber! Like hedgehogs, us football bloggers like to hibernate during fallow periods; it prevents us from losing touch with reality when the madness of the season begins in earnest sometime after July. Or maybe even earlier, if you’re Swansea. Don’t quote me […]

  • Holiday time is over: Back to business for Martinez & team

    Holiday time is over: Back to business for Martinez & team

    Following reports that Graeme Jones has turned down the Swansea job, it looks as though Wigan will survive through to the start of the European Championships with their management team intact. That such high-profile clubs are even interested is somewhat surprising, especially given the club’s situation not six months ago – the dramatic upturn in […]

  • Roberto Martinez signs new three-year contract with Wigan

    Following 48 hours of intense speculation over the Spaniard’s future, Roberto Martinez has opted to stay at Wigan Athletic, putting pen to paper in a contract that will keep him at the club for three more years. It is thought Martinez rejected a deal with Aston Villa worth around twice his current contract because of […]

  • Roberto Martinez in talks with Aston Villa: A question of faith?

    Roberto Martinez in talks with Aston Villa: A question of faith?

    As soon as it became clear Gerard Houllier would not return to manage Aston Villa, rumours about who should replace him began to fly. One of those in the running was Wigan’s own Roberto Martinez, who was immediately instated as the bookies’ third favourite when chairman Randy Lerner expressed an interest in the Spaniard. It […]

  • Roberto reveals (almost) all at his first fans forum

    Roberto reveals (almost) all at his first fans forum

    Roberto Martinez hosted his first fans forum as manager of Wigan Athletic in front of 350 supporters at the DW Stadium’s Fitness Lounge last night. Unfortunately JWAW could not personally make it, but thanks to the wonders of the Internet (as in, the various Latics messageboards) we are able to bring you the general gist […]

  • Wigan 3-1 Chelsea: Well, that was a pleasant surprise, wasn’t it?

    Wigan 3-1 Chelsea: Well, that was a pleasant surprise, wasn’t it?

    I’ll come clean: I wrote the following passage at around 1PM in anticipation of another Latics defeat. I wanted to try and get this post out of the way as soon as possible, as I predicted I would be too depressed to write it at 6PM. How wrong was I, eh? Dear bloke on the […]

  • Return of the Three Amigos [Video]

    Return of the Three Amigos [Video]

    Whilst the England cricket team were rolling back the years over at Headingley with a performance more reminiscent of 1995 than 2005, Latics fans had their own bout of nostalgia on Saturday as the Three Amigos were once again reunited at the club that made their names. Well, probably. As Isidro Diaz, Jesus Seba and […]

  • Wigan 3-1 St. Mirren: Match report

    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 […]