The weekend preview

With a new year comes new challenges, new faces and more fixtures, so lets get cracking.

Sittin pretty City thanks to headin’ Dzeko

Manchester City travelled to the DW Stadium with all eyes on the Premiership leaders. After two back to back home cup defeats and a less than impressive league form before that meant that Manchester City were in a mini crisis. Seriously? I can deal wit…

Van Aanholt joins Vitesse on loan for rest of season

Patrick van Aanholt is off once again. Vitesse announced today that the 21-year-old fullback will be joining the Dutch club on loan for the remainder of the season.

In need of games
This is pretty good news. While the Eredivisie is a clear step down in competition from the Premier League, van Aanholt should have a [...]

Silva Antics, Mancini Tactics and Platty Schematics all needed Monday

Monday night will see Mancini’s men travel to the DW Stadium for their Premiership match against Wigan. The first time these two sides met in a League match was only back in 1998 when City had fallen to their lowest position of their history. Both team…

Manchester United Striker set to Join QPR

Manchester United’s Italian Striker Fredrico Macheda is looking less likely to move to Wigan and according to his agent but, is nearly 100 per cent certain to join QPR on loan this January.     Macheda has only played in six games in Sir Al…

9-Man United stroll past 10-Man Wigan

A slightly delayed reaction to United’s thrashing of Wigan.

Manchester United’s Solution To Win The Title Is Simple

Roberto Martinez thinks Cleverly’s return will strengthen the United side and shows admiration for his ability saying that the young worderkid is what will help take the club to glory. After a lively beginning to the season, Tom Cleverly has spen…

VIDEO: Park, Berbatov, Valencia goals vs Wigan

For the second game in a row we have battered the opposition 5-0, so there’s not many negatives to take from it. Dimitar Berbatov got a start before knocking three goals past Wigan’s goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi. This will obviously give Ferguson an even bigger headache in the future when it comes to picking our…

Arsenal looking for a striker, but Wenger seems confused.

Arsene Wenger wasting money and time on Rodallega? Arsenal are having a little bit of a striker crisis. As Chamakh and Arshavin almost about to leave, Wenger is looking everywhere for a suitable striker who would fit in perfectly. Much easier said than…

Arsenal linked with £5m proven Premiership hitman

It is being reported today that the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is set to make a £5 million bid for the out of favour Wigan Athletic striker Hugo Rodallega. If sources are to be believed, the Colombian has fallen out with manager Roberto Martinez an…

Inconsistency, our bane

Just when we thought we had turned the corner, just when we thought we had rediscovered the touch, then came the annoying draw, against whom? Wigan! And more stupefying is that, Cech, of all goalies, spilled it at the death of the game. And that absurd…

Chelsea FC: I feel like ferNANDOS tonight

There are many small things that frustrate me in life: people who lick their finger to turn a page, people who feel obliged to fold their jumpers around their waist, even people who slurp their drinks or soup. But when it comes to Chelsea FC, there is …

Post Match: Chelsea vs. Wigan

The Wigan game felt like two points lost than a point gained. Our Blues surrendered our one goal lead in the 88th minute of the game. It was disappointing. The only change AVB made to the team that defeated Manchester City at the Bridge was Lampard for Ramires. Given we had won against Manchester City [...]

PL 16. Hafta: Wigan 1 – 1 Chelsea

Çok gereksiz bir puan kaybı oldu… Muhtemelen ligin son haftalarında fazlasıyla arayacağımız bir 2 puan bıraktık Wigan deplasmanında. Ayrıca Man City ve Valencia galibiyetlerinin ardından bu oyun ve alınan skor hiç yakışmadı bize. İy…

Villas-Boas: Chelsea fought hard but Wigan deserved the draw

The Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas saw his team go from one extreme to the other in the space of a week. After beating the League leaders Manchester City on Monday, Chelsea only managed a draw against bottom club Wigan last night. The Portugese manager…

Wigan 1-1 Chelsea: Flaccid overall display fails to deliver

Some would call it robbery, a late Jordi Gomez goal denying Chelsea a fourth consecutive victory on Saturday at the DW Stadium. However, robbery would imply that the visitors actually deserved to win. That, my friends, was hardly the case.

Dejection
What is it with this team? Just when you think they are finally finding themselves, something [...]

Match Preview: Wigan v Chelsea

Hello Blues, Today, our Blue Army is in Manchester to face relegation candidates Wigan. Over the years, Wigan has become one of the teams Blues look forward to meeting. They are the gift that keeps on giving. If we had a home away from home, it has to be the DW Stadium. I expect our [...]

Rant Box: Wigan v. Chelsea

We need a win. This man needs a game.

Team news and the like from 12:15pm EDT
Team sheets
Wigan Athletic
Al-Habsi, Figueroa, Alcaraz, Caldwell, Stam, Jones, Diame, McCarthy, Sammon, Gomez, Moses. Bench: Pollitt, Crusat, McArthur, Gohouri, di Santo, Watson, Rodallega.
Chelsea
Cech, Cole, EBJT, Bane, Bosingwa, Romeu, Meireles, Lampard, Mata, Sturridge, Drogba. Bench: Turnbull, Torres, Mikel, Malouda, Ferreira, [...]

PL Preview: Wigan v. Chelsea

A pivotal trip to White Hart Lane is on the holiday horizon. Slow your roll, though. First, we need to navigate this potentially tricky venture to Greater Manchester on Saturday.

Hey, it’s Franco
On paper, away to Wigan doesn’t appear to be too much trouble. The Latics are buried at the bottom of the Premier League table, [...]

Wigan vs Chelsea – Blues to win again?

Andre Villa-Boas will want to see he team perform like they did against Manchester City last Monday.

VIDEO – AVB Denies Possibility Of Torres Sale

Amid rumours which were speculating a possible Torres leave in January, manager Andres Villas-Boas clearly stated that Chelsea will keep the Spanish striker and that nothing about the rumours is true.

Everton tomorrow, Henry statue and 33 passes

I’m going to make this quick, because it’s too late to garner much attention anyway.
Tomorrow we face Everton at the Emirates. I feel like I could just copy this preview from any game they’ve played over the past few seasons: They&#8…

Woeful Wigan and Singing Szczesny: Wigan 0-4 Arsenal

Routine. Walk in the park. Just another day at the office. I don’t think there has been an easier game for us this season. Our opposition never got out of first gear as we went into cruise control and still won by a considerable distance. I can&#…

Super Mega Ultra Roundup!

We begin, dear mouseketeers, with an apology. As you may have noticed, Christmas approaches, and with it time seems to warp and compress, like one of those old Star Trek episodes when the money for alien makeup had run out so they had to do a thinky o…

The Goonerater – Wigan v Arsenal

Amoy Ghoshel, AKA The Goonerater returns to dish out the points on Arsenal’s winning team against Wigan this weekend.