Yet another " not been on in a while" post

These seem to be a reacuring thing! anyway on the football front Wigan Athletic had a fantastic start to the season, winning 2-0 at Villa but that seems a long time ago imo since then we have been knocked out of the league cup to Blackpool 4-0 which if im honist wasnt the best awayday for a varity of reasons, We also lost against wolves at home 1-0 but we did win against West Ham at home last sat and I hope that the results start coming in. This weekend see's the latics go to " that london" against the gunners I would be going to the game if I wasnt in work at 7 and could make the trip there and back.
Cinema wise I have been watching quite a few films, Last night I watched One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and I have to say was an amazing film. Nick Love has done a " Remake" of the Firm, I still have to watch the film but I personaly think it will be shite. Here is the link to the Gardieans review. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/sep/12/nick-love-the-firm

Whats been going on....

Not had a good post on here for a while so thought i would just up date. Lost 2-0 to Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium. 2 pubs near the ground and since i had work straight after couldnt have a look around. Quite a poor performance from latics i think but Cho-Won Hee made his debut for the club so fair enough for him. Pompey at home was the last game at the " The DW Stadium". Hugo Rodallega scored the only game of the game and Latics finished on a win at the end of the season even though i had to leave at the end of the game due to getting to work ( which seems to have a complication whenever i go to the football). Picked up a fantastic LL bean Vintage parka which i think looks fantastic for a very good price as well. Finally decided to get another pair of jeans but this time they will not be from Blue Harbour. I gave Uniqlo a chance, i wanted the Japanese selvedge denim jeans but they did not do them in my waist. So i went with the basic Straight Legged jean at 25 quid so not to bad on the price front!.
Ended up in Manchester on the Bank Holiday Monday to have a good drink for a mates birthday which took us up to the Northern Quarter of the city then ended up at the Oyster Bar where we supped the very busy and very sunny Beer Garden overlooking that big wheel and the crowds ( and some very good lucking girls) go by.
Then we ended up looking for a certain pub called The Peveril of the Peak which had some very nice guest ales on and ended up putting The Stone Roses on the Jukey but to get there we had to get a taxi etc.. The last pub of the day was called The Britons Protection which had a nice beer garden and was a nice pub to finish off the day so my mates ended up getting a train back to Yorkshire and i got on the next train back to good old Wigan.
After a few ales in here we ended up in our last pub of the day

Not posted for a while....

And there has not been much to post about recently but now i feel there is.
Went to Wigan beer festival last week and i have to say there where some top ales.
Stand out ones for me where:


Allgates Groundhop day which is 3.8% and as the "tasting notes" say its a Well balanced straw coloured ale, easy drinking with a berry/herbal aroma!


Allgates Nightmare On Ale Street - classic porter,dark and rich - bursting with malt falvours - 5.2%

Strawberry beer ( don't now the name of the brewers)

Toffee Ale ( very nice i thought)- Fed up with fruit?,this ones got toffee flavour..

Hopstar - Smokey Joes Black Beer - 4% - multi award winning ale, dark and full of chocolate


and i tasted some Gayhakers West Country cider which was very good i thought ( even though i dont remember how to spell the name..)

I went with some mates and we all tasted what brews we each got and the ones that i thought were alreet was:

Empire Strikes Back - 4% , Pale golden hoppy session beer


The "tasting notes" were taken from the "Wigan Beer Festival 2009" booklet

Football front:


Latics one Hull City 1-0 with a Ben Watson goal. I may self did not go to the match due to work but was told that it was alright. Latics taken everton next Sunday which i should be attending. Its a fantastic old ground Everton the wooden seats etc fantastic.
I also should be attending the Wigan Robin Park fc game against AFC united this Tuesday. I have only got to go to one game this season against Ashton Town at home and i have to say i am looking forward to it.


Clothes front:

Not much since i have not had a lot of money but i should have a pair of Adidas Samba Supers coming through over the next few days which should be oreet.
And i also got a Blue Harbour blue/white s/s shirt and a black polo from Marks and Spencers in sunderland on my recent trip up there.

First time i have been to football...

In a month tomorow where the Latics will go against West Ham at home tomorow, when we played at Upton Park this year we lost 2-1 but was a fantastic day getting the train in from Luton to London ( the one with the massive steel work around think its kings cross/euston dont know) day on the beer etc...well tomorow we take them on at the JJB and I am hoping for 3 points and if we played like we did against chelsea then i feel like we will be able to take all the points. I hope that Valencia will be back into the starting eleven the korian player that has been talked about should be making his debut as well as mido may be coming back well i certainley cant wait and shall be taking my concoxion of pain killers to see my bad back thourought the game!

Brown Cords and Walking Boots

After a family "get together" and some family left this morning to head back down south the rest of us decided to go for a walk through the West Yorkshire countryside. So i borrowed some walking boots and we all set off and stopped by a pub for a little sup (Theakstons Best bitter.Fantastic) and walked through these farm yards and past big isolated homes which looked great! and then headed back up to my aunties very muddy but happy.

Some old posts.....

Found my old blog before and started looking through what i had posted and this is one in paticular that i liked:

working class. what is it? to me working class is were you work for your money pay bills go out go to football go for a beer etc just geting on with life not to rich and not to poor. i was looking on the internet for what the acutual term is on wikipedia its" Working class is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation.In common with other terms relevant to social class, it is defined and used in many different ways, depending on context and speaker. The term incorporates references to education, to occupation, to culture, and to income. When used non-academically, it typically refers to a section of society dependent on physical labor, especially when remunerated with an hourly wage."now to me thats a longwinded way of saying what i say and on the bbc it mentioned that britan has no social class...we are all a meritocity ( what the hell does that mean?) and that the goverment think that we are all middle class? bollock to that so you can live it up in your posh houses while most of teh birtish public stuggle to pay the taxs that is essentily your fucking wage. piss off new labour.now within that post there may be some contradictions and some down right bullshit i dont now, you decide ben.


and i still agree with what i put there.

Regional diffrences?

I have been thinking about this for a while, There is all kinds of regional diffrences such as how we speak etc...but in terms of football and clothes i am aware that there was diffrences back in the early days of the subculture there was such as liverpool and merseyside had the wedge first while evryone else was stuck in the "bootboys" culture still ( cropped hair,doc martins,bombers etc...) and that liverpool where the first to a degree to set off the casual subculture. Brands such as fila etc. Where as down south clubs such as west ham where very burberry orintated ( so a blackburn friend of mine said *insert a winkey thing here* and that the yorkshire and lancashire based clubs where known as wooleybacks because of thick wool jumpers.
This was back in the days when the culture was a thing to be part off ( it still is but not to a certain degree as it used to be) and personaly i think that regional diffrences arnt arround much any more and that to a certain extent there is none but there in the subculture its self .
The people who are more clued up in the culture know what makes may break through in the next year or so or a certain label that is that extra bit special and is relictant to share that little bit of infomation. But within the culture its self there is divides. There is the "very" clued up who have been in it for years and are full of infomation about the old days. The clued up who know about the scene and labels and a wee bit of infomation then there are the down right fucking clueless who think location,goigoi are casual and that if you strap on a fake stone island jacket from cheetham hill you are a "casual"...


Grim