Don’t look now, but I think our season may well be back on track after a hard won three points in Wigan thanks to goals from Gabby Agbonlahor and Ashley Young from the spot, despite James McCarthy’s deflected effort setting up the usual nervous final 10 minutes.
Jean Makoun made his Aston Villa debut and Nathan Baker made a surprising Premier League debut in place of the injured Ciaran Clark at left back, both giving a very good account of themselves.
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I likened Wigan to low hanging fruit in the preview, but we’re not going to pluck any today after “freak weather” has caused the game to be postponed. That’s a problem, we really could have done with sinking our teeth into that sweet, ripe flesh ahead of the Boxing Day fixture against Tottenham.
I hope no one asks Gerard Houllier for his opinion on the ability of the English to cope with inclement weather as his Gallic scoffs will surely
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I don’t know what to make of Wigan Athletic, they’re something of a Jekyll and Hyde team. I’ve all the time in the world for Roberto Martinez, he definitely knows his potatoes, but results and performances frequently betray the fact that he’s the youngest manager in the league.
Watching Wigan at home this season, the first thing that will strike the casual observer is the number of empty seats in the DW Stadium; they’re the worst supported team in the
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I sometimes struggle to enjoy a game now and again, even ones we win, because the nervous energy doesn’t allow me to relax and be entertained. Maybe you’re the same. Maybe it’s just me. Either way, this wasn’t one of those games, I enjoyed almost every minute, even the final few. OK, maybe not the final few so much and probably not the opening 5 or so minutes, but in between it was really entertaining.
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All the games we’re playing right now are the reverse fixtures of games we played earlier in the season. Nothing out of the ordinary about that, but this was one 2nd leg match I was anxious to get to. You can probably already guess why, but if not; if there was any game this season I’d like a do-over on, it’s the opening day clash against Wigan at Villa Park.
I wondered after that game whether I’d done Wigan a
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Wigan had gone to a great deal of effort and expense to counter the freak weather conditions around the stadium to ensure today’s fixture with Aston Villa would go ahead. Unfortunately, all that work came to nothing last night as the under soil heating system failed in a major way and could not be fixed. In the end it was left to the elements over night with a pitch inspection in the morning to decide whether the game
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