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Your Precious

Your Precious

Neill Rimmers Perm January 27, 2011 5

Go on, I’ll admit that I’ve been in a bit of a Latics based slump recently, then I’ll pause, let you gather your thoughts, build your pre-conceptions and then hit you with the truth. 

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Signing Off

Signing Off

Neill Rimmers Perm October 11, 2010 4

Let me start by congratulating the town’s other professional sporting team on their success the other week.  Yes it’s belated, yes it’s done through clenched teeth but sporting success deserves a pat on the

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Schlong song

Schlong song

Neill Rimmers Perm September 7, 2010 0

Do I need to remind you of my feelings towards Paul Scharner?  Things will be so much easier if we can leave that at my never having rated him, he was my favourite left

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Zigga, Zogga, insomnia

Zigga, Zogga, insomnia

Neill Rimmers Perm August 27, 2010 0

In all my years watching Wigan Athletic, and they’re not insubstantial, I’ve never been so cross, I’ve never been so frustrated and I’ve never been so close to chucking it all in and starting

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Hacking Away

Hacking Away

Neill Rimmers Perm August 25, 2010 0

Around this time of year I would normally write a piece bemoaning the death of the League Cup maybe suggesting some ways in which it could be improved, how we could get away from

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N’Zogbia to Sunderland tomorrow then.

N’Zogbia to Sunderland tomorrow then.

Neill Rimmers Perm July 23, 2010 16

It’s funny how different people hear things differently isn’t it?  Sky must have been pestering the club today for a line on the rumours that Sunderland are about to whisk Charles N’Zogbia away for

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Just another manic, err, Tuesday

Just another manic, err, Tuesday

Neill Rimmers Perm July 21, 2010 1

I suppose the time has come to give up on thoughts of last season’s end of term review (with apologies to Charles N’Zogbia, Maynor Figueroa, James McCarthy and the teams that beat Arsenal, Chelsea

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A view from the North Stand – Liverpool (h)

A view from the North Stand – Liverpool (h)

Neill Rimmers Perm March 11, 2010 2

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

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Go on, before the wind changes

Go on, before the wind changes

Neill Rimmers Perm February 18, 2010 3

We’re Little Wigan, we’re having a laugh&#

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Pretty Please With a Cherry On Top

Pretty Please With a Cherry On Top

Neill Rimmers Perm February 3, 2010 1

No I haven’t either.  As I type, I can’t even remember the lad’s name properly, it calls to mind Portuguese managers, expensive wool or bright red cherries in 1970s cocktails, and it begins with

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