You don’t like Mondays – A Liverpool Report
March 10, 2010 – 7:54 am | 3 Comments

Are you over it yet?  No?  Good, because neither am I, or maybe I’ve just not ‘accidentally’ bumped into enough scousers to have fully expressed my smugness just yet.  The only thing I’ve had by …

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Not a patch on

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.

Here You Go Pop Pickers – First Listen Reviews
January 15, 2010 – 11:17 am | No Comment
Here You Go Pop Pickers – First Listen Reviews

I ‘m sure I ‘ve gone through this before, but just so you know, a ‘first listen review ‘ is what it says on the tin. Each of the reviews that follow are based on …

Building a defence
January 13, 2010 – 11:10 pm | No Comment
Building a defence

One I remember as a hot prospect who couldn ‘t break into Newcastle ’s defence (!!?!?!) the other I have vague recollections of being linked with a year or so back. Both of Latics ‘ …

Let’s Hang On
January 10, 2010 – 7:53 pm | No Comment
Let’s Hang On

Honestly, I published Friday’s match preview about ten minutes before I found out about the pitch inspection scheduled for this morning.  I was quite chuffed at the time, what with all the stuff and nonsense …

Not A Patch On 2009
January 9, 2010 – 12:11 pm | No Comment
Not A Patch On 2009

Sloblocks! As Sir Stephen Fry once put it. Time which should be spent on the 658 from sub-tropical Leigh to the match-fit environs of the DW stadium shall now be otherwise filled. An 8:30am inspection …

Back to the Start – Villa preview
January 8, 2010 – 8:52 pm | No Comment
Back to the Start – Villa preview

League positions, form and just sheer gut reaction tell you that this game is more likely to hinge on how Latics cope with Villa’s attacking threat than how much they threat they pose themselves and …

’s Catt Man gone – The 5 Latics Moments of 2009
January 8, 2010 – 11:19 am | No Comment
’s Catt Man gone – The 5 Latics Moments of 2009

Happy New Year, all the best for 2010 and all that…
Let’s face it, on the Latics front; it would struggle to be worse than 2009 could it?  After two half seasons that saw Latics …

Two Heads Are Better Than One
January 6, 2010 – 6:00 pm | No Comment
Two Heads Are Better Than One

I realise that this is a bit on the late side, but it’s not only the team that have been suffering for form of late and a bout of some kind of lurgy or other, …

I Wish I Was A Little Bit Taller
December 22, 2009 – 8:00 am | No Comment
I Wish I Was A Little Bit Taller

… And thinner, faster, didn’t drink as much and was better at football.
You know the debate about how past heroes would have fared in the modern game (let’s call it the Campbell conundrum)?  Or the …

It’s Snow Good
December 21, 2009 – 4:47 pm | No Comment
It’s Snow Good

Have I been saved from an evening freezing my balls off worried that Bolton were going to get one over on us or robbed of my pre-Christmas dose of football?  Have Latics been robbed of …

Dead romantic – Liverpool thoughts
December 18, 2009 – 11:35 am | One Comment
Dead romantic – Liverpool thoughts

It doesn’t take that long for the Premier League sheen to wear off, does it?  From must see away game in 2005/06, through “protect our goal difference at all costs” to a game you just …