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Wigan Athletic said goodbye to the Premier League through an entertaining 2-2 draw with Aston Villa. Latics' display had the hallmarks of what we have seen so often this season - bouts of champagne football interspersed with mediocre defending. Th...

It was billed as the grand finale to a topsy-turvy season for Wigan Athletic. The home match with fellow strugglers, Aston Villa, was to be crucial in determining Latics' future in the Premier League. But sometimes things just don't work out as you h...

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Spox.de recently held a vote on the best team ever in 50 years of Bundesliga competition . Fittingly (or perhaps prematurely, depending on who you ask) Borussia Moenchengladbach's 1970-'71 side beat out this year's Bayern Munich in the final. And...

First things first. Thank you Arsenal. And hasten back Wigan. Sunderland are safe courtesy, in the end, of the success and failure of others and it is right to acknowledge that. The Gunners, of course, beat the FA Cup winners not because they ...

The week that brought Wigan Athletic its greatest moment in football has ended in sadness as the club's eight-year Premier League history has been placed in the to-be-continued pile along with so many others. Few Wigan supporters will feel anythin...

Arsene Wenger, rather curiously, can't remember ever relegating another Premier League side. Then again, should the worst happen to Wigan Athletic at the Emirates on Tuesday, the Arsenal manager won't necessarily feel like the executioner. "You lo...

When you watch it again, it is hard to tell that Ben Watson's FA Cup-winning header actually happened in slow motion. But from my bright red Wembley seat about 15 yards away, I can assure you that the world stopped for a magical 10 seconds as the bal...

Last summer, Indonesia played a friendly against Inter Milan in the Senayan Stadium in the centre of the Jakarta. One expected to see the red and white colours of Indonesia in a ground that holds 65,000 people, but probably around 70 percent of the ...

LONDON -- It was the legendary Nick Hornby who so expertly explained in "Fever Pitch" that the summit of football-watching in his formative years was a "2-0 home victory against the league leaders after a fish-and-chip lunch." I've been dreaming o...

Boston's athletes played a huge role in uniting the city and raising funds for the bombing victims.

The greatest performance in Wigan Athletic's history saw an incredible 1-0 victory over Manchester City through substitute Ben Watson's 91st-minute header. This was no fluke -- Wigan played the better football and were deserved winners. Just over...

It's been a momentous week in British football. Whatever your club allegiance, it's hard to ignore the impact Sir Alex Ferguson has had on the game and the remarkable sustained period of dominance that he has overseen at Manchester United. However...

On such a historic occasion for Wigan Athletic, it seemed in a strange way inappropriate to focus on lineups, tactics and the XI that turned out to represent the club in its first ever FA Cup final. But it is the biggest game in the club's histor...