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Are we really going to pretend that we didn’t expect that to happen, or that losing 5-0 to United is more disastrous than being beaten by Wolves? The Champions coming to town, stung by
Read More »This is it…
Latics 0-5 Manchester UnitedSaturday 22nd August 2009 Is that it? Is it time to sack the manager, bin the game plan get back to lumping long balls and running around in circles? If you
Read More »Corporation Pop – United Preview
The Arndale, Aflecks, Aspecto. The Smiths, The Roses, The Mondays. The Ritz, The Hacienda, The Roadhouse. These are the things that come to my mind when I cast it eastward up the East Lancs.
Read More »Dances with Wolves… Badly – Match Report
Latics 0-1 WolvesTuesday 18th August 2009 It’s hard to comment on a performance like this one without ending up sounding like a right old whinger “Oooh, they bullied us, but… But…”, “The referee was
Read More »I once knew a girl…
… and she had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very, very good and when she was bad, she was horrid. It struck me
Read More »Richard!
Oh my god, what have I turned into. I used to call myself a football fan and pride myself on what was going on elsewhere. I followed the careers of such luminaries as Jermaine
Read More »Schock Tactics
Or Please Release Me, Let Me Go. If it were another player then I’d be tempted to ignore it. But it’s not another player and they probably wouldn’t have done it anyway. Earlier in
Read More »That’s not failing…
…it’s losing with style. “If we’re going to lose, we’re going to lose in style. You have to be brave” What more could you want from a manager coming out of his first Premier
Read More »It starts… – Villa Report
By now, you’ll pretty much know it all. Latics battered Villa who never really turned up. The top six side looked rigid and limited in their play whilst the rookie manager’s style of play
Read More »errrrm… – Villa Preview
I’m sticking to my theory that it’s better to leave your pre-season review until a couple of weeks in and no doubt I’ll be regaling you some time around the end of the month
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