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.

So good they
August 17, 2005 – 10:37 pm | No Comment

Well, if England played international class football last night then half the Latics team deserve to be at the World Cup in the summer. After an average first half, they managed to ship four goals …

The Duke blows it
August 17, 2005 – 8:00 pm | No Comment
The Duke blows it

Nathan Levi Fontaine Ellington, what have you done? And what’s more, why have you done it. After a month or so of rumour, guesswork and shear frustration, our big hope for Premiership goals has …

Sponsored Walk
August 16, 2005 – 5:23 pm | No Comment
Sponsored Walk

Now 10 or so years ago, the shirt deal we signed with JJB was not just advantageous but a totally necessary part of our survival. It was the first visible sign of the chairman’s …

On the Cresp o' a wave – Chelsea Report
August 16, 2005 – 9:26 am | No Comment

Wigan Ath 0 – 1 Chelsea
Sunday 14th August 2005
Let’s get the clichés out of the way first. Football can indeed be a cruel game, yet you usually get what you deserve. The two statements …

Get off your (high) horse
August 12, 2005 – 5:25 pm | No Comment
Get off your (high) horse

8:20am I’m taking a risk as I start to write this, nothing as yet is certain and all this could be something over nothing or my opinions complete rubbish, only time …

Come in number 81, your time is up
August 12, 2005 – 6:34 am | No Comment
Come in number 81, your time is up

Wigan Athletic 1 – 0 Boavista Saturday 6th August 2005 Can pre-season friendlies ever tell us anything useful? Last season’s game at Blackpool …

Four to the floor
August 11, 2005 – 8:30 pm | No Comment
Four to the floor

It’s been a busy old couple of weeks in the Jewell household, flights to Norway and Turkey have been booked (if stories are to believed) and players have been winging their way in from …

…and two weeks later
August 6, 2005 – 10:41 pm | No Comment

Well, for one reason or another, I’ve not done an especially good job of keeping my promise of keeping this blog up to date. Plenty has happened in the couple of weeks since I last …

It's a con
August 1, 2005 – 10:07 pm | No Comment

Well after all the excitement, speculation and downright panic the transfer window slammed shut with less of a bang than a whimper. Fortunately we managed not to lose any more players but on the other …

Another day
July 31, 2005 – 10:43 pm | No Comment

… another bid, another player who it looks like doesn’t even want to talk to us.  Whether we’ve bid 1.5, 2 or more millions for Norwich’s Damien Francis is irrelevant, it looks very much as …