History of Wigan Athletic Football Club.

Here is some infomation and facts on Wigan Athletic..Thanks to http://www.gowigan.com/ for the infomation.

Wigan Athletic was formed in 1932 and it was the fifth attempt to stabilise a football club in the town. In 1978 Wigan Athletic were elected to Football League. They were promoted to the Football League Championship only in 2003 and to the Premiership in 2005. In 2006 they reached the League Cup final for the first time in their history.


1932 – 1937 – Charlie Spencer
1946 – 1947 – Jimmy Milne
1949 – 1952 – Bob Pryde
1952 – 1954 – Ted Goodier
1954 – 1955 – Walter Crook
1955 – 1956 – Ron Stuart
1956 – Billy Cooke
1957 – Sam Barkas
1957 – 1958 – Trevor Hitchen
1958 – 1959 – Malcolm Barrass
1959 - Jimmy Shirley
1959 – 1960 – Pat Murphy
1960 – Allenby Chilton
1961 – 1963 – Johnny Ball
1963 – 1966 – Allan Brown
1966 – 1967 – Alf Craig
1967 – 1968 – Harry Leyland
1968 – Gordon Saunders
1970 – 1972 – Gordon Milne
1972 – 1974 – Les Rigby
1974 – 1976 – Brian Tiler
1976 – 1981 – Ian McNeil
1981 – 1983 – Larry Lloyd
1983 – 1985 – Harry McNally
1989 – 1993 – Bryan Hamilton
1993 – Dave Philpotts
1993 – 1994 – Kenny Swain
1994 – 1995 – Graham Barrow
1995 – 1998 – John Deehan
1998 – 1999 – Ray Mathias
1999 – 2000 – John Benson
2000 – 2001 – Bruce Rioch
2001 - Steve Bruce
2001 – 2007 – Paul Jewell
2007 – Chris Hutchings
2007 - Frank Barlow
2008 - Steve Bruce
2009 - Present - Roberto Martínez

There is a little bit of infomation and history in Wigan Athletic.


Grim.

update - Clothes,Fashion and genreal musings.

Oreet all, just thought I would do a little update on my blog since I havent done one for quite a while.

On the clothes front I have picked up two recent purchases: A wrangler long sleve check shirt ( may not define what is casual or a casual label but a very smart shirt imo and looks smart under a nice jacket.)

Also got from a family member a Hoggs Of Fife Waxed countryman jacket. Very smart and will do me for the coming winter months in WN6.

Footballing wise, couldnt not make the fulham game at home due to other things, Boyce's goal was good and although we kept piling on the pressure couldnt get that second goal needed to win. And fulham aparantly only came up with 400 fans but due to there mid-week match in Rome I can see why i presume the majorty of there fans went over to italy. Italy or Wigan? you chose.
I can not make the trip down to the big smoke on sunday against spurs due to money but hopefully we can come away with a point and White Heart Lane is a fantastic ground and theres some fantastic boozers in the area. The next latics match for me will be our home game against Sunderland where I will be meeting some of my mackem mates for a few jars and then will take in the game from my usual pew in the East stand.


Grim

Burnley VS Wigan Athletic

Tomorow is Burnley VS Wigan Athletic,3pm.Turf Moor.

Im going to start off with a feature that I included in the last preview: Head to Head

League: Burnley 2 Draws 7 Wigan 7

League Cup: Burnley 0 Draws 0 Wigan: 2

Other: Burnley 0 Draws 0 Wigan 1

Total: 2 Draws 0 Wigan 10

As you can see, Wigan have come better off in Previous encountes. But as always Wigan could make a hash of it and Burnley could come away with 3 points...Wigan may have ot make a team change with Sharner and Kirkland not at full strength since Kirkland sufferd a dislocated finger against Manchester City ( Which will include a review) and also Sharner is suffering from a hip problem, so a couple of problems for first team players but I hope that Latics can come away with 3 points, as it stands Burnley is 10th and Latics are 14th hopefully 3 points can send us on our way!
Whoever is going tomorow enjoy the game!

Wigan Athletic vs Manchester City

I shall be going to the match today, not been for around a month so thought I would do a preview of the "big match" today:

So for our team today we shall see Won Chee Ho fly back after playing on International dutey so I presume he will not be playing today, the only worrying thing for us is that Eric Edman picked up concusion playing for the reserves so I hope he can play today...apart from that i assume the normal squad will be up today.

Head to head:

League - Wigan wins 5 draws 2 City Wins 3

Fa Cup - Wigan 0 Draws 0 FA cup - City 2

other - Wigan 0 draws 1 City 1

Total Wigan 6 draws 4 city wins 7


I think wigan will either just scrap a win or it will be a draw, Come on Wigan!

Smokey Back rooms and real bitter.

The british establishment that is a pub is not what it used to be. When working class lads walk past it then dont " smell" sucsess and look forward to the coming of age where they can go into the hallowed pub and have there first legal pint. Now all you get is fucking posh nosh, pubs that dont even smell of pubs! My earliest memory is where my nana and grandad live, It was at Bentham Golf Club, There where the regulars smoking pipes and cigarettes with there flat caps and pints of mild. That is a memory that has always stuck with me.
Kids today wont get that( some people may think so what?)....But its just a nice memory that im sure wont be seen again.
The Smoking ban is killing the pub trade and I hope that the goverment can relax laws and just let the tap room/snug be somewhere where you can smoke.
The great british pub will return to what it once was.

Planned purchase

As some of you may or not know, im into my clothes. So when payday comes I have planned a few purchases.

Clarks Nature shoes.

I am planning on getting these from oipolloi at at the price of 75 pounds i was giving htem a second thought because i personaly would not pay that for a pair of shoes, but on a second glance they do look quality and also would look very smart. here is a link to the oipolloi site and the shoes that I plan on getting from them.

www.oipolloi.com

http://www.oipolloi.com/store/ClarksOriginals-ClarksNatureIIChestnutGrainedLeather-4421.html


Next up, a shirt from a brand that i recently found out called TukTuk of a forum that i regualy frequent and having a look at there site i have to say they do look quality.
They other options for your shirt and i have opted for a 3 inch collar, a breast pocket and long sleves and also a bit of length since im not on the thin side.

here is a link to there site, check them out.

http://www.wearetuktuk.co.uk/