I found myself in the rather unusual position this week of defending a Liverpool FC player. Not only that, but the player in question is Steven Gerrard – sorry, Stevie Geeee, as we’re supposed to call him – and he … Continue reading
Is your Facebook and Twitter feed filled with sentimental “new year, new me” nonsense? To be fair, mine hasn’t been as bad as it has in recent years but it’s still pretty sickly. Apparently, January 1st is the only one … Continue reading
Chris Griffin Says… is taking a well deserved (voted for by me) early break as we approach the end of the calendar year. This is partly due to pressures of work, a plethora of football matches on TV that are … Continue reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… well, there’s no snow on the ground yet but it’s certainly at least starting to feel a bit like Christmas. The Christmas telly mags are in the shops, the brass bands are … Continue reading
Chinkgate, the sorry race-related episode that has blighted Wigan Athletic and its owner Dave Whelan over the last couple of weeks, has shown us that we have to be vey careful what we say for fear of breaking largely unwritten … Continue reading
If you’ve been to the chippy over the last few days, the chances are your fish and chips will have been lovingly wrapped up in old newspaper pages filled with column after column of vitriolic abuse of Wigan Athletic’s septuagenarian … Continue reading
My lad is one of a small handful of kids chosen from his class to potentially sit Level 6 SATs at the end of year 6 in June – or at the end of junior school, as it was in … Continue reading
A number of our team members are currently spending the working week away from our base in Oldham. Some would say that not having to spend all day in Oldham is a good thing. However, I don’t think many of … Continue reading
So, last week we looked at players who left Wigan Athletic supposedly to move on to bigger and better things. Leaving Wigan didn’t work out too well for the ones we saw last week but there have been one or … Continue reading