24th August 2005
Wigan 4
Viduka 30, Francis 37, 66, Roberts 90
Portsmouth 1
Lua Lua 47
Although a tough match on paper, my players performed brilliantly to impressively win against Jay's Pompey team. I'm hoping it's not just a one-off as we need these kind of results to secure our premiership status.
27th August 2005
Blackburn 1
Johnson 11
Wigan 2
Eriksen og37, og90
A superb game of football against Goat's Blackburn team who seems to be reviving the Keegan style of all out attack and totally forgetting about the defensive side of things
. I'd like to give special thanks to defender Eriksen for finishing off our moves so well to secure all the points in the end
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10th September 2005
Wigan 1
Connolly 50
Man Utd 3
Scholes 33, Park 44, Ronaldo 72
Man Utd look unstoppable as they completely tore apart my team with the terrorising pace of both Ronaldo and Rooney which we had no answer for. They look likely for the title this season if they carry on playing like this.
17th September 2005
Birmingham 2
Heskey 45, Tebily 84
Wigan 0
With Niall bemoaning his lack of funds and any decent players before the season began, it was obviously a load of tosh as they looked pretty damn good to me. Never managed to get into the match as Heskey and Tebily both scored to secure the points for our illustrious EPL host (He paid me to say that!!!
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League Cup 2nd Round
21st September 2005
Wigan 5
Gaven 29, 54, 67, Roberts 70, Bullard 90
Leeds 2
Healy 45, Hulse 80
After the poor showing against Niall's Birmingham side, I decided to let the team go all out attack and take
the game to Leeds. The team turned in a great performance as we demolished them 5-2 with Gaven scoring an impressive hat-trick as he showed why he's going to be a top player in the Wigan side for years to come.
24th September 2005
Wigan 3
Viduka 10, 15, 51
Everton 2
Beattie 28, 46
With Everton performing well, this was a great result with Viduka scoring a tremendous hat-trick as he continues to justify his 2.5m transfer fee with top class performances.
1st October 2005
Arsenal 2
Van Persie 5, Reyes 16
Wigan 0
Stood no chance in this match as Henry ran the show. Van Persie and Reyes scored in the first 20 minutes and
we never looked like getting back into the match.
15th October 2005
Wigan 0
Chelsea 0
23rd October 2005
Middlesbrough 4
Maccarone 20, Yakubu 65, 90, Mendieta 79
Wigan 3
Gaven 8, Viduka 40, Kavanagh 82
With my defence deciding to go on holiday during the match, the rest of the players couldn't score enough to cover up for their mistakes as Middlesbrough had a field day scoring 4 goals and could have scored 8.
League Cup 3rd Round
26th October 2005
Wigan 0
Southampton 1
Prutton 49
The less said about this game the better as Southampton won thanks to a Prutton goal. Not happy with my side
and let them know in no uncertain terms after the game that I won't stand for this kind of performance.
29th October 2005
Newcastle 3
Shearer 24, Parker 28, Ameobi 80
Wigan 1
Viduka 86
5th November 2005
Wigan 1
Roberts 41
West Ham 0
Another game where my capable assistant pulled off a win against Danny's West Ham side. Ochoa was MOTM as he
kept the Hammers at bay for the whole game and is looking well worth the money spent on him.
26th November 2005
Wigan 3
Roberts 5, 22, Viduka 41
Charlton 3
Jardel 21, 25, Murphy 62
With me being away, another game that my assistant took charge of but a point's a point so it's happy days :thup:.
30th November 2005
West Brom 3
Ellington 1, 16, Earnshaw 50
Wigan 2
Kavanagh pen 9, Roberts 72
Coming up against Ligs for the first time ever in EPL history, I wasn't sure what to expect. At the end of a
entertaining game, we ended up on the wrong side of a 3-2 win with Lig's team looking impressive so it looks like he'll do quite well this season.
3rd December 2005
Man City 1
Kamburov 68
Wigan 0
With Rick's Man City team really underachieving, I thought we'd have a good chance of getting at least a draw
but with the strikers hitting a blank for once, Kamburov scored the only goal to wrap up the win for Rick.
10th December 2005
Wigan 1
Francis 28
Aston Villa 1
Baros 32
Sam is having a good season with the Villans so far and so was a bit apprehensive before the game. It turned
out to be a pretty boring game with a draw being a far outcome in the end so I needn't have worried.
26th December 2005
Wigan 2
Mahon 27, Gaven 36
Tottenham 0
Coming up against a seriously underachieving Spurs team (Pagi's managing them so it's no surprise :p), I was confident that if the players put in a good performance that it would be enough to get a win. Mahon and Gaven secured the points with two good finishes.
28th December 2005
Fulham 1
McBride 72
Wigan 3
Viduka 20, Roberts 40, 65
With Frenchy's Fulham having a bad run before this game, my players did me proud with an impressive performance
against one of the better teams in the league despite their recent form. A goal from Viduka and two from Roberts was enough to secure the win but disappointed we couldn't manage a clean sheet against a ineffective Fulham frontline but still one of the easier games this season
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2nd January 2006
Wigan 2
Roberts 5, Viduka 90
Sunderland 1
Murphy 28
After losing 3-2 at the Stadium Of Light to Sunderland who ran rings round us that day, we got our revenge as the players put in a good performance although we did leave it late to secure the win with Viduka scoring in
the 90th minute with a well-taken goal.
4th January 2006
Bolton 2
Davies 46, 73
Wigan 1
Viduka 25
Although Bolton won 2-1, this is a game where we really should have won as we created plenty of chances but
just couldn't put the ball in the net, but can still take positives from the amount of chances we created in the end.
FA Cup 3rd Round
7th January 2006
Wigan 0
Reading 0
Dominated the game but strikers just couldn't finish off the chances being created for them. So we'll have to go to Reading now and try and get a good result to keep us in the cup as i'd like to have a good cup run.
11th January 2006
Liverpool 1
Alonso 63
Wigan 0
Didn't think I'd get anything out of this game which turned out to be right as Alonso scored to secure the win
for Liverpool but we can be happy as they should have scored more than one goal so the defence put in a good
performance.
14th January 2006
Porstmouth 3
Mbesuma 23, Lua Lua 86, 87
Wigan 5
Mokoena 14, Gaven 45, Commons 58, Kavanagh 80, pen 90
With Jay being away and his assistant in charge, I was confident of getting at least a point to help push us
up the league. The match was a real end to end game and we looked impressive as we got ourselves 4-1 up but
Lua Lua scored two off counter-attacks to make it 4-2 to get the nerves going but Kavanagh slammed home a penalty to confirm all three points in the end.
FA Cup 3rd Round Replay
18th January 2006
Reading 1
Convey 36
Wigan 2
Gaven 8, Viduka 58
A potentially tricky cup replay away at Reading was comfortably won in the end with goals coming from Gaven
and Viduka. Man Utd away in the next round awaits so that'll probably be the end of any potential cup run
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Report Stats Played - 24
Won - 10
Drawn - 4
Lost - 10
Scored - 39
Conceded - 36
I think I'll be trying to more regularly update as I've got cramp in my wrist from having to talk about 24 matches in total :eek:.
We're currently on 30 points after 20 odd games of the season but we'll still need at least another 10 points to have definitely secured our premiership status then we can look to push on from there to hopefully finish somewhere near mid-table.
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