Tag: Shrewsbury

  • PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 163: Lardo laughs

    PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 163: Lardo laughs

    They’re one Right Honourable Tub of Lard MP away from being a certain Friday evening BBC panel show. I’m of course talking about the delightful carousel of celebrity guests that is WISH FM, who have been covering for the absent Neill Rimmer with various employees of Wigan Athletic FC. Don’t get me wrong – it […]

  • Shrewsbury 1-5 Wigan: Chuting for the title

    Shrewsbury 1-5 Wigan: Chuting for the title

    Hi, sporks fans! I’m ZZZ-list celebrity Alf Hart, and you’re watching Guys’ Sporks News. They’ve parachuted me in at the last minute because their regular monotone ‘expert’ clearly ain’t photogenic enough in this super HD televisual age. In other words, he’s an ugly goit. …So, er, what’s this report about again? Fuzzball, you say? Ah, […]

  • PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 162: Old tech is the best tech

    PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 162: Old tech is the best tech

    Right, that settles it. From this day forward I am switching JWAW from a small time internet weblog to an… even smaller time printed memo service. Nope, I’ve made up my mind! Having witnessed first hand how successful Gary Caldwell’s paper notes system can be, I am certain that a little piece of paper, not […]

  • Wigan 1-0 Shrewsbury: Revell up

    Wigan 1-0 Shrewsbury: Revell up

    Oh, how times are changing at this little Lancastrian club. It has been just over a year since Malky Mackay replaced Uwe Rosler as skipper of the overpopulated rowing boat with a large hole that was Wigan Athletic. But after the best part of 365 long, arduous days and countless men cast ruthlessly overboard, a […]

  • PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 144: TV winners (and losers)

    PWU Wigan Athletic Podcast No. 144: TV winners (and losers)

    Savour it while you still can, chaps! Fairly soon, on-demand league tables via your television could be a thing of the past as Auntie Beeb phases out the Red Button, formerly Ceefax. Best ready your anti-Arnold devices, for this surely signals the end of the convenience age and the beginning of the Skynet automated thought […]