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Retro Football: Young Roberto Martinez Demonstrates How To Defend Against...
Photo: Press Association Having pioneered a slew of innovative systems with Everton (the ‘hopelessly isolated frontman’ and the ‘hideously exposed flat back two’ instantly spring to mind) in recent...
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Championship: Nick Powell Emerges From Bench To Score 10-Minute Hat-Trick As...
Nick Powell emerged from the bench to score a 10-minute hat-trick as Wigan came from 2-0 down to beat Barnsley in the Championship on Thursday evening. Having fallen two goals behind on the hour-mark,...
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Bolton Legend Jussi Jaaskelainen, 42, Confirms Reports Of His Retirement Have...
Former Bolton goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen has scotched reports that he’s decided to hang up his gloves at the tender age of 42. It was announced in the Finnish media that, after being released by...
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Classic Moments: Mido And The Worst ‘Crossbar Challenge’ Attempt Ever...
To brand Mido’s loan stint at Wigan in the latter half of the 2008/09 season as ‘largely featureless’ and ’eminently forgettable’ is to do it a major disservice. After all, the Egyptian striker scored...
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League One: Wigan Winger Ryan Colclough Scores Twice, Gets Subbed Off In 58th...
Wigan winger Ryan Colclough scored a rare old hat-trick on Tuesday night, with two goals coming in a 3-0 win over Doncaster at the DW Stadium and the third coming in the maternity ward at the hospital...
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FA Cup: Arthur Masuaku Sent Off For Spitting As West Ham Lose To League One...
Embed from Getty Images Arthur Masuaku saw red for spitting at Nick Powell during West Ham’s FA Cup fifth round clash with Wigan , with the Hammers suffering a shock 2-0 defeat at the DW Stadium. The...
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West Ham: Arthur Masuaku Given Six-Match Ban For Spitting At Wigan’s Nick...
Embed from Getty Images The FA have hit Arthur Masuaku with a six-match ban after the full-back was sent off for spitting at Nick Powell during West Ham’s dismal 2-0 defeat against Wigan Athletic in...
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FA Cup: Chelsea Face Leicester And Man Utd Host Brighton In Quarter-Final Draw
Embed from Getty Images Premier League title holders Chelsea will travel to former champions Leicester in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. The draw also sees Manchester United host Brighton in a...
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Pep Guardiola Admits He Once Failed An Audition To Play For Wigan Athletic...
Embed from Getty Images With Man City drawn against Wigan Atheltic in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, manager Pep Guardiola has been reminiscing about the time he came perilously close to joining...
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Romance Of The FA Cup: Wigan Knock Man City Out On Aggro-Fuelled Night At DW...
Embed from Getty Images Pep Guardiola’s aspirations of winning a third career quadruple came to a shuddering halt in Wigan (of all places) last night, as a single goal from Will Grigg was enough to...
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Football GIF: QPR’s Bobby Zamora Boots Jordi Gomez In The Head
By Alan Duffy In a bizarrely needless challenge after just 20 minutes, from a throw-in no less, QPR’s Bobby Zamora launched a head-high studs-up kick which hits Jordi Gomez in the side of the head....
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Wigan Fail To Sell 10,000 Of Their 31,000 Allocated Tickets For FA Cup Semi...
By Chris Wright Given that their average Premier League attendance has bobbed around the 17-18,000 mark for the last few years it’s prehaps not altogether surprising, but the FA have announced that...
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FA Cup: Millwall 0-2 Wigan – Latics Stroll Into Cup Final As Lions Fall Short...
By Alan Duffy Millwall 0-2 Wigan Athletic – FA Cup – 13th April 2013 Wigan deservedly booked their place in the FA Cup final after a rather comfortable 2-0 win against Millwall at Wembley. A goal in...
View ArticleThe Entire FA Cup Semi-Final Weekend At Wembley In Time Lapse (Video)
By Chris Wright Here’s an ace video cobbled together by FATV of the entire – we’re talking 36 hours’ worth of footage – FA Cup semi-final weekend at Wembley in time-lapse form, with the Man City vs...
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Man City 1-0 Wigan – Late Tevez Strike Fires Citizens To Lacklustre Victory...
By Alan Duffy Manchester City 1-0 Wigan Athletic – Premier League – 17th April 2013 Man City kept alive their teeniest tiniest (i.e. feck all) hopes of retaining the Premier League trophy courtesy of...
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West Ham 2-0 Wigan – Latics Remain In Drop-Zone As Hammers Win At The Boleyn...
By Alan Duffy West Ham United 2-0 Wigan Athletic – Premier League – 20th April 2013 While Wigan have an FA Cup final appearance to look forward to, their Premier League status is starting to look less...
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Wigan 2-2 Tottenham – Boyce Scores At Both Ends As Draw Satisfies Nobody At...
By Alan Duffy Wigan Athletic 2-2 Tottenham Hotspur – Premier League – 27th April 2013 Wigan and Spurs may have their eyes on different ends of the table, but the 2-2 draw played out at the DW Stadium...
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West Brom 2-3 Wigan – Macca The Match-Winner As Latics Boost Survival Hopes...
By Alan Duffy West Bromwich Albion 2-3 Wigan Athletic – Premier League – 4th May 2013 He of the tricky dribbling and knee-high assaults, Callum MacManaman, proved the match-winner for Wigan on...
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Wigan 2-3 Swansea – Latics Lurch Towards Drop After DW Defeat (Photos &...
By Alan Duffy Wigan Athletic 2-3 Swansea City – Premier League – 7th May 2013 Wigan slid ever closer to the Championship after losing 3-2 at home to Swansea on Monday night. Roberto Martinez and co....
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Ali Al-Habsi Debuts Strange ‘Webbed’ Goalie Gloves, Designed Especially For...
By Chris Wright We’re not quite sure if we’re having our puddings pulled here, but the chaps over at Sondico assure us that Wigan ‘keeper Ali Al-Habsi is to debut a new pair of ‘Penalty Saver’ goalie...
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Snapshot: Wigan Athletic Are The 2012/13 FA Cup Winners!!!
By Chris Wright Rejoice, for Wigan Athletic are the 2012/13 FA Cup winners!!! No shock or “upturn for the books” about; The Latics were the best team on the day and deservedly pipped Man City 1-0...
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FA Cup: Man City 0-1 Wigan – Final Joy For Latics As City Flop At Wembley...
By Alan Duffy Manchester City 0-1 Wigan Athletic – FA Cup Final – 11th May 2013 As Chris already said, Wigan’s 1-0 Cup final victory was no fluke, with the Latics thoroughly deserving of the win...
View ArticleEntire FA Cup Final Day At Wembley Presented In Time Lapse Format (Video)
By Chris Wright We love these ‘ere time-lapse things, and this one’s no exception. Using a single camera mounted high behind one of the goals, the FA have produced a Benny Hill-style video memento of...
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Arsenal 4-1 Wigan – Latics Down And Out As Gunners Stay On Course For Europe...
By Alan Duffy Arsenal 4-1 Wigan Athletic – Premier League – 14th May 2013 As the great Irish poet Ronan Keating once sang, “life is a rollercoaster”. And those words aptly describe Wigan Athletic’s...
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Roberto Martinez Resigns As Wigan Manager, Everton Wait In The Wings
By Chris Wright “Ta ra yer shitters!” It was pretty much inevitable given the circumstances but the lure of getting his hands on Everton’s gargantuan transfer budget has proved too much for Roberto...
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Roberto Martinez Appointed Everton Manager On Four-Year Deal
By Chris Wright After weeks and weeks of umming and ahhing, Everton have just confirmed that Roberto Martinez has been sworn in as their new manager having signed up for four years at Goodison this...
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Owen Coyle Officially Unveiled As Wigan Manager (Photos)
By Chris Wright Here’s Wigan’s new manager, Owen Coyle, doing the whole “scarf aloft” thing at the DW Stadium alongside chairman Dave Whelan who once broke his leg in an FA Cup Final… (Photos: Lynne...
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Community Shield: Man Utd 2-0 Wigan – Van Persie Brace Gets Moyes Era Off To...
By Alan Duffy Manchester United 2-0 Wigan Athletic – Community Shield – 11 August 2013 Picking up where he left off last season, Dutch hitman Robin van Persie netted a goal in either half to secure a...
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Man Utd To Face Liverpool At Old Trafford In Capital One Cup Third Round
By Alan Duffy A clash of those two old rival Liverpool and Man Utd at Old Trafford is the pick of the ties from Wednesday night’s Capital One Cup 3rd Round Draw – the game will also be the first...
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Europa League Draw: Tottenham Stuck With Anzhi, Swansea Get Valencia And...
By Chris Wright The yawning, grotesquely over-inclusive draw (there’s a “Group L” for crying out loud!) for the 2013/14 Europa League group stages has finally finished taking place in the Grimaldi...
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Capital One Cup: City Bang In Five, Everton Crash Out As Big Boys (Mostly)...
By Alan Duffy Despite remaining the only unbeaten side in the Premier League, Roberto Martinez’s Everton went down 2-1 to Fulham at Craven Cottage to become the biggest casualty of the Captial One Cup...
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Football GIF: Wigan’s Nick Powell Scores Impressive Jinky ‘Slalom’ Goal vs...
By Chris Wright Manchester United loanee Nick Powell made history last night by scoring Wigan’s first ever goal in European football to spark the Latics’ first ever victory in European football in...
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Europa League: Rubin Kazan 1-0 Wigan – Defensive Lapse Sees Latics Lose...
By Alan Duffy Rubin Kazan 1-0 Wigan Athletic – Europa League – 7th November 2013 Owen Coyle’s Wigan side produced a good display away in Kazan but came away empty-handed courtesy of a 1-0 defeat. Oleg...
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Europa League: Wigan Go Out As Tottenham And Swansea Make It To Knockout...
By Alan Duffy I decided to amalgamate the performances of the three English sides in last night’s Europa League into one little compendium of photos due to sheer laziness. So sue me, yeah!? Anyway,...
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Cardiff 1-2 Wigan – Watson The Cup Hero Again As Latics Win In Wales (Photos...
By Alan Duffy Cardiff City 1-2 Wigan Athletic – FA Cup 5th Round – 15th February 2014 Wigan’s goal-hero from last season’s cup final struck again on Saturday in Cardiff, with Ben Watson’s 4oth minute...
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Wigan’s James McArthur Refuses To Miss Big Match As Wife Goes Into Labour,...
By Chris Wright Despite his wife being fit to burst in a hospital bed, having her labour induced and generally teetering on the verge of delivering their child on Wednesday night, Wigan midfielder...
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Wigan Oust Man City From FA Cup, Largely Thanks To Emmerson Boyce’s ‘Block Of...
By Chris Wright Wigan have just ousted Manchester City from the FA Cup for the second time in two years, putting on a non-shall-pass defensive display that Gandalf himself would’ve been proud of at...
View ArticleWigan Athletic’s Official FA Cup Semi-Final Song Features Owner Dave Whelan...
By Chris Wright Yep, apparently “official FA Cup semi-final songs” exist, and Wigan Athletic’s 2014 effort, “I’m From Wigan, Me” by Lancashire folk/jug band Chonkinfeckle, features club owner Dave...
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Football Vine: Wigan Keeper Scott Carson (Accidentally) Hoofs Bobby Zamora...
By Alan Duffy Poor old Bobby Zamora got a right hefty boot in the knee from Scott Carson on Monday after QPR had scored in their second-leg Championship play-off with Wigan. A total accident but...
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‘I Would Never Insult A Jewish Person’– Wigan Owner Dave Whelan Apologises...
By Chris Wright We think it’s fair to say that Wigan Athletic are having a bit of a shocker at the moment. Not only have the Latics seen one of their shirt sponsors pull out after hiring Malky Mackay...
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‘We Used To Call Chinese People ‘Chingalings’’– Dave Whelan Apologises For...
By Chris Wright “Pssst…Dave…stop talking…pssst…DAVE…” Wigan owner Dave Whelan has once again attempted to apologise for offending everybody and has, once again, promptly made things ten times worse....
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Wigan Full-Back Juan Carlos García Diagnosed With Leukaemia
By Alan Duffy View image | gettyimages.com One of those sad stories which puts football and all its related waffle in perspective, sad news arrived today that Wigan defender Juan Carlos García has...
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Sam Allardyce, Malky Mackay And The Groupon Offer Of A Lifetime!
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com “Knowing me, knowing you is the best I can do…” Presenting what surely must be the Groupon offer of a lifetime: 42% off your chance to see Big Sam and...
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Wigan Athletic To Erect Life-Sized Statue Of Dave Whelan Outside DW Stadium
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com It has been announced that Wigan Athletic are to pay tribute to long-serving player, chairman and owner Dave Whelan by building a life-size statue of him...
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Transfer Balls: Man City Stay Fixed On Pogba, Liverpool Fancy Firmino,...
By Alan Duffy Transfer Balls: Rounding up the day’s football tittle-tattle so you don’t have to… View image | gettyimages.com Citizens Pursue Pogba The Mirror tell us that Manchester City are now...
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Transfer Balls: Man Utd Reel In ‘Unhappy’ Ramos, Liverpool Bid For Bacca,...
By Alan Duffy Transfer Balls: Rounding up the day’s football tittle-tattle so you don’t have to… View image | gettyimages.com Red Devils Reel In Ramos With Sergio Ramos apparently unhappy at the...
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On This Day In 2010: Tangerine Dreams As Blackpool Thump Wigan 4-0 On Premier...
Blackpool’s first ever match in the Premier League saw them stick four unanswered goals past Lancastrian rivals Wigan to seal the club’s first win in the top flight for over 40 years and set the...
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FAIL: Wigan’s Leon Barnett Posts Strong Contender For ‘Botched Throw-In Of...
Photo: Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic went to Bury and came away with a 2-2 draw in League One on Sunday afternoon, with a brace of late goals putting paid to the home side’s six-game winning streak....
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Wigan Fan Awarded Free Season Ticket For Creating All-Conquering ‘Will...
Not so very long ago, a video did the rounds of a group of Wigan fans belting out an ode to top-goalscorer Will Grigg after the striker scored his 27th goal of the season in a 4-0 away win over...
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‘Will Grigg’s On Fire’ Chant Almost Makes iTunes Top 10 After Being Released...
Remember, not so very long ago, when we brought you news of the Wigan fan who landed himself a complimentary season ticket for concocting a chant about Latics striker Will Grigg that proved an instant...
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