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May be it was a too metaphorical comparison. He was the founder of the Engineering multinational company Kvaener, so one suspects that he was not selling bog rolls on Molde market.
before the Spurs game last night,during the discussions Neville even suggested that in their current form Wigan could beat Barca. Sure he a closet Latics fan.
He will stay with us for another year. Arsenal will do nothing again and Wenger will depart on the basis that he has taken the club as far as he can and Bobby will take over.
Dave Whelan should use his contacts with Old Red Nose and get Ole Gunnar Solskjaer from Molde (where he won their league last year in his first year of management – albeit with a relatively [by Norwegian football] big budget funded by a Norwegain Dave Whelan).
The Stoke game was February 2000, the Saturday after Stanley Matthews died. I remember it well as i was sitting in the west stand, close to the North, with my kids (who were young then) preparing to defend them from these lunatics charging towards us and thinking, at the age of 40, I don’t need this!
Until the road around the stadium was sorted out the east stand was not used. Then when it opened it was used for away fans and the north stand was the family stand. When we were promoted to premier league I was told that the family stand could not be adjacent the away supporters but we also probably thought we would fill the ground (which we did in season 1). It was then that the away stand moved to the north and the family stand to the south.
I’m pretty sure that we will use the same formation except if Maloney is fit he will be on the left and moses on the right (Gomez on the bench). Moses is good but has to work on his final ball and finishing. too many times he elects to go for goal when there are better options. Also, I don’t think he is as effective on the right wing but Shaun Maloney is.
The danger we face is that despite the statements of intent to keep it up, the 5 points freeboard may phsycologically cause them to take their foot off the pedal. They have been playing high intensity stuff over the last few weeks and it must take it out of them, i just hope we can keep it up and be safe before the fianl day.
Should be a good match. We all know that Fulham will be no push over and Jol won’t take Wengers casual attitude when asked how he was going to respond to Wigan’s 3-4-3 by dismissing us with “we play our own system”
Cheers, but being a numpty on computers, i still don’t know what you actually did.
i will need to consult my son.Despite the common belief that everyone at Wigan is behind Martinez this season, there have been many people that have been calling for his replacement (it’s probably caused more arguments in the “do” household than anything else) as clearly what he was trying to do was not working at he start of the season. Even I have been very depressed this season and believed we were heading down this season but I still thought that our longer term future was better served with him and that with the players we have we would be very good in the Championship.
Martinez has not just thought about staying up, he has set up Wigan to bring young players through and build for the future (all previous managers were concerned with he here and now)as our biggest problem is that he brings players on and then the key players are stolen at the end of the season so he has to start again at the start of each season)
Most critics fail to recognise that at the same time he came in, Whelan had decided premier league life had to be sustainable, so we have cut the wage bill dramatically and bought in young players with potential (apart from a major error in purchasing one failed Argentinian striker).
It has therefore taken a lot of work to make these less able players to work and find a defensive system that enables the defenders (who would probably not make it into most top half premier league clubs) stop leaking goals, which was one of our main problems. What we also lack is a striker who can score and the main reason is that those who can score are valuable and even if Wigan were prepared to pay the price, other clubs would also be clambering for their services and would they choose little Wigan? Hence the expensive mistake in Boseli, which smacked of desperation.
Just stand back and look at the total value of the Wigan side against Liverpool, Chelsea (bearing in mind that we beat them really), Man U, Arsenal and even the Stoke side which we beat recently. In each of these games the other side was siad to have had an off day, but the real reason was that Wigan stopped them from playing their game and played their own game. This was was the reason.
Martinez has turned a bunch of unrecognised players into a top class team. Just imagine what he will be able to do with a talented team and a real budget!Cheers Fatmando. Don’t worry about Le Prof, he’s just a sore loser – once he gets over disappointments he’s as magnanimous as they come!Like many others, I’ve admired Martinez for a long time, but Monday night’s game really did seal it for me: it’s no mean thing to get a team motivated and organised enough to execute a gameplan like that, based it was on lots of movement with and without the ball. I also saw him spend a lot of time briefing Conor Sammon before he came on, which suggests to me a very careful and tactical mind.
Gooners and all those plastic Reds who schlep up to Salford from Surrey, the Midlands and Cornwall share one thing: a nagging doubt about the succession plans once our increasingly aged managers finally retire. Names get kicked around amongst Arsenal fans, from Pep Guardiola to Dennis Bergkamp, but I left the game on Monday feeling I really had seen our next manager. I know that sounds arrogant, presuming to think we’ll be able to nab your guy, but I guess that’s the way it is!
As for Moses, we shall see! He’s been very impressive for the past few months, and I can definitely see there being clubs this summer who’d be keen to make him the next Antonio Valencia. I hadn’t realised till yesterday that he’d decided to play for Nigeria – gutting, having him pile down the left wing for England would’ve been great.
And Legolad, don’t worry about having declared your true colours, Arsenal fans are a pretty meek and accommodating bunch, as long as you’re not supporting Spurs, Chelsea or Stoke.
THanks 26May, most of the people we met recognized the Wigan performance fro what it was, it is a pity that Arsene Wenger is not able to give credit when credit is due.
On the comment re Martinez – I said to a gooner cabbie in London last year that Martinez would be the next Arsenal Manager.
Ohh – and hands of Moses he needs another year to work on his finishing.
Absolutely brilliant performance. Maloney was something else, the Jimmy Mac’s were dominanant in the middle, gary “beckenbauer” caldwell was solid, figgy put valencia in his back pocket, franco ran his heart out and held the ball up well and Al habsi was given the day off. Moses seemed to have been picking up some bad habits gomez as he failed to track back or tackle effectively – he looked tired when asked to defend but then seemed full of energy when running with the ball, so was he being lazy (in comparison with his team mates)?
The last 20 minutes were the longest in my life and they did sit back but hardly surprising because they must have been knackered. the first half performance left me knackered and i was in the crowd.its sky sports intro to football first.
we think its the Liverpool game late december (second season) when we were trounced 4 – 0. we (family) can see my brother and his wife and my son and his friends (who were in our seat – me and missus – as we were away in Norway where we watched it in a pub full of liverpool fans plus 2 Norwegians in Wigan shirts.