A view from the North Stand – Liverpool (h)
March 11, 2010 – 12:11 am | 2 Comments

The tea room pundits, the media and Dave Whelan all agree that Liverpool are in pretty dire straits at the moment.  Defeat is one thing, but against Latics?  Your common or garden Latics fan might …

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Brooding and Musing on a life with Wigan Athletic F.C.

Season Reviews

Sometimes it’s nice to sit back. light your pipe and think on the season past.

The pie at night

A devious plan to make you think we have lives. Think monkeys and Shakespeare.

Matches

Latics games, thoughts, fears, memories. With lashings of gnashing of teeth.

Other Sports

Apparently sport exists away from Wigan Athletic, perhaps.

King Landz at the JJB, but Denny is out
January 25, 2008 – 8:50 pm | No Comment
King Landz at the JJB, but Denny is out

On a day that will do nothing to dissuade the persistent one in, one out theorists Steve Bruce has allowed Denny Landzaat to leave the club and signed Marlon King. The moves will probably …

Jerry Built Rumours
January 22, 2008 – 9:37 pm | No Comment
Jerry Built Rumours

This morning, I expressed the views that a) Latics were unlikely to sign any one else and b) there was a fair chance that Jason Koumas would be out of the door before the …

Howling at the moon – Everton thoughts
January 22, 2008 – 9:32 pm | No Comment
Howling at the moon – Everton thoughts

I told you last week that I wouldn’t be at this one, nor was I able to watch it live on TV. I managed better than the Likely Lads though and avoided any info …

Swap shop
January 22, 2008 – 9:53 am | No Comment

As transfer windows go, this one has been fairly quiet for the boys and girls that cover Wigan Athletic. The brief flurry of speculation that is the hallmark of football’s New Year aside, Latics …

Bury get one in the Hutch
January 22, 2008 – 9:51 am | No Comment

Chris Hutchings yesterday ended his enforced sabbatical by stepping in to help his old mucker, and caretaker manager, Chris Brass, at Bury.  The manager’s post in currently vacant following the sacking of Chris Casper …

Missing out? (Everton preview)
January 20, 2008 – 8:41 am | No Comment

Sometimes you spend the days leading up to a game in eager anticipation, thinking about little else and desperate for kick off.  Other times games creep up on you and with ne’er a thought, you’re …

Queuing up
January 19, 2008 – 2:41 pm | No Comment

With fortunes on the pitch improving, you’d be excused for thinking we’d be let off from our helping of relegation threat fuelled transfer speculation.  Things may have been a little bit slower than in previous …

Moving On
January 16, 2008 – 7:25 am | No Comment

Of course, you’d start to worry if I started reporting the news when it happened, but it’s never great when you miss your chance to say goodbye  The beauty of having your own blog is …

Super Sib – Derby report
January 14, 2008 – 11:58 pm | No Comment

Derby 0-1 Latics
Saturday 12th January 2008
With half his team making their debuts, facing a team without an away win all reason and the added bonus of a visit from his old club, Paul Jewell will …

As the mummy tomato said to her son…
January 9, 2008 – 1:01 pm | No Comment

If it’s been a while since the Fulham game then it feels like an absolute age.  Football and all that goes with it has taken a back seat to the chaos that is Christmas …