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Agree about the near post corners and flick-on. We’ve been done many times by this but we never seem to use it. Also, can anyone explain why, when we get a throw-in 10 yards from the line, doesn’t anyone park their backside on the corner flag. You can’t be offside from a throw-in so there’s a possibility of either a cross into the box or a corner kick.
Nearly as bad as the bloke on BBC red button going on about Al Habsi being on loan from Bolton and their fans not being happy about his save at the end “when he returns to Bolton”. Experts – Do they know anything about clubs outside the top 4?
That was when we had a TEAM. All for one and one for all and that was all the way up to the first season in the Prem. If you watch any of the dvd’s from the season’s before we got promoted we played some brilliant football at times. Not kick and rush but good passing moves and good finishing. Perhaps pushing for the top level was more of an incentive for the players than just playing for survival.
I don’t think anyone posting one here would expect us to ever be anywhere near a top six position. The only excitement we’ve had in the last three or four seasons is trying to avoid the drop at the end of the season. If it was a choice between:-
a) supporting a team whose sole ambition is to stay in the Premier League regardless of the level of performance and throwing in the towel at the first opportunity in any cup competitions or
b) supporting one in the Championship who have a chance of winning more than they lose and who have a go at winning some silverware,
then I for one would choose the latter.
It seems a long time ago when I was stood on the terraces at Springfield Park (just near the chip van) with the rain running down the back of my legs and my dream then was that the team I supported would survive and not go the the wall. Then Dave Whelan came along (yeh, the one so many slag off on this forum) and my dreams changed to getting promoted through the leagues. Even then I never thought we would actually make the Premier League, but we did and the journey was fantastic. Now the dream has turned sour and I realise that the anticipation and the journey was actually better than arriving.
Nearly 50 years for me too. I think its a case of the journey being better than actually arriving. All those years of clawing our way up the divisions and the first year in the Prem were great. Unfortunately reality has now clicked in. I thought Roberto had the right philosophy of playing attractive passing football.
Swansea showed us how to do it properly last weekend. Unfortunately, we’ve not got the players to do it. Swansea showed that you don’t have to spend big to get the right players to play this style.
Its been a humiliating day to be a Wiganer. Lose badly at QPR, Trotters beat Liverpool, a thick Wigan bird on Take Me Out. Might just slash my wrists before MOTD comes on! Still, the chubsters will soon be back showing us how to win. Doh!!!
After seeing it on MOTD Marriner didn’t know what had gone on. He had his back to the corner when Pederson started his run
What would Blatter know about honoring the war dead? Don’t think many Swiss paid the ultimate price to win freedom. They just knicked the nazis treasures (and still have some!)
He reckons Juventus are after him and he’s off in the January window
http://www.clubcall.com/wigan-athletic/latics-duo-linked-with-exit-1332510.html
Quite right. It’s not “what knows what he’s doing” its “us knows what he’s doing”. Where was you dragged up?
Could probably stretch to a couple more if you count doing my courting (you don’t see that word very much these days!) at the Northern Floodlit League matches at Springy