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Kirkland issues challenge
Chris Kirkland has challenged Latics to push on from their historic victory over Liverpool and take another huge step towards safety at Bolton on Saturday.
yesterday
Hu and cry for Rafa
Roberto Martinez hailed hotshot Hugo Rodallega after the Colombian rediscovered his shooting boots to gun down Liverpool.
about 2 days ago
Hugo gives Reds the Blues
Hugo Rodallega grabbed a priceless winning goal as Wigan Athletic beat Liverpool 1-0.
about 3 days ago
Hu-goals Rodallega
Hugo Rodallega has been backed to rediscover his shooting boots and fire the goals to keep Wigan safe – starting tonight against Liverpool.
about 3 days ago
Martinez backs Wenger call
Roberto Martinez has thrown his weight behind Arsene Wenger's calls for the Premier League's flair players to receive greater protection from referees.
about 6 days ago

Manchester Evening News

Wigan 1 Liverpool 0
Emmerson Boyce, who sounds more like a Motown soul singer than a Premier League footballer, had jubilant Wigan fans dancing in the streets. Unsung hero Boyce engineered the goal for Hugo Rodallega, wh…
about 2 days ago
Wigan v Liverpool: Preview
Wigan boss Roberto Martinez has called on his players to keep their composure over the coming weeks as they prepare to scrap for points with teams from both the top and bottom of the Barclays Premier…
about 6 days ago
Martinez hopes for spring revival
Wigan Athletic boss Roberto Martinez is hoping for a spring rebirth for his Premier League strugglers. Latics have suffered since the turn of the year and find themselves locked in a relegation dogfig…
about a week ago
Birmingham 1 Wigan 0
Birmingham piled the pressure on Wigan with a victory at St Andrews thanks to a controversial penalty. James McFadden scored from the spot after Mario Melchiot brought down Keith Fahey in first-half…
about 2 weeks ago
Birmingham v Wigan: Preview
Wigan pair Titus Bramble and James McCarthy are both doubtful for the Barclays Premier League trip to Birmingham. Central defender Bramble is still struggling with the hamstring injury that forced him…
about 2 weeks ago

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Kirkland targets Trotters
Chris Kirkland is targetting Saturday's trip to Bolton as a chance for the Latics to pick up another three points in the battle to escape the bottom three of the Premierleague.
about 15 hours ago
McCarthy hoping for quick fire points
Latics youngster James McCarthy is hoping to follow up the victory over Liverpool with three points against Bolton at the weekend as the Latics aim to pull away from the relegation zone.
about 15 hours ago
Supporters club dinner - last chance for tickets
Wigan Athletic Supporters Club is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of our Freight Rover Trophy win at Wembley in 1985. Tickets are available for the event up until Saturday.
about 15 hours ago
Portsmouth game moved
The league game with Portsmouth originally scheduled for Saturday 10th April at the DW Stadium has been moved as Portsmouth reach the FA Cup Semi Finals.
about 15 hours ago
Liverpool Photographs
Photographs from the Latics first ever victory over Liverpool have been added to the WIGANER.net gallery. Hugo Rodallega netted the winner 35 minutes in.
about 2 days ago

Not a Patch On

A view from the North Stand – Liverpool (h)
The tea room pundits, the media and Dave Whelan all agree that Liverpool are in pretty dire straits at the moment. Defeat is one thing, but against Latics? Your common or garden Latics fan might .…
about 11 hours ago
You don’t like Mondays – A Liverpool Report
Are you over it yet? No? Good, because neither am I, or maybe I’ve just not ‘accidentally’ bumped into enough scousers to have fully expressed my smugness just yet. The only thing I’ve h…
yesterday
Yes, Another Liverpool Preview
It’s easy to be kind about Liverpool, whilst hardly clean of soul they aren’t a monolith like united nor a richer than thou plaything like Chelsea or City. In a lot of ways they’re ...
about 3 days ago
Stranger things have happened: Liverpool pseudo-preview
Having suffered from laryngitis for the majority of the week, I was in dire need of something to cheer me up this weekend. Seeing Everton beat Hull 5-1 yesterday went some way to achieving this, ...
about 3 days ago
Things that make you go Mmmm – Liverpool home
Are things really that bad? They must be because we don’t talk any more, I don’t think things have been this bad since the Attack of the JCLs back in the mid-naughties. It’s all shouting, ..…
about 3 days ago

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Liverpool lacking in confidence, says Ryan Babel
Dutch winger admits morale is low at Anfield. 'We can't create a kind of confidence with winning games'Ryan Babel has admitted Liverpool's confidence is at such a low ebb that they were lacking in s…
about 2 days ago
Rafael Benítez: Liverpool 'played without intelligence'
Liverpool manager could not hide disappointment after 1-0 loss. 'We have to keep going for fourth place,' said BenítezRafael Benítez cut a dejected figure as Liverpool's Champions League ambitions…
about 2 days ago
Wigan Athletic 1-0 Liverpool | Premier League match report
The guarantee is close to its expiry date. Liverpool resume Europa League duties this week and look strong candidates to stay in the competition regardless of the outcome of their tie with Lille. That…
about 3 days ago
Wigan v Liverpool - as it happened | Premier League | Evan Fanning
Hugo Rodallega's first-half goal eased Wigan's relegation concerns and cast doubt over Liverpool's fourth-place ambitionsPreamble Nothing emphasises Liverpool's current predicament more than the fact…
about 3 days ago
Squad sheets: Wigan Athletic v Liverpool
This meets Rafael Benítez's criteria of no mistakes in the race for the final Champions League spot. With Tottenham and Manchester City inactive this weekend, victory at the DW Stadium would take Liv…
about 6 days ago

Telegraph

Liverpool's Steven Gerrard expected to escape charge for 'V-sign' at Wigan
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is unlikely to face an FA charge for allegedly flicking a 'V-sign' at referee Andre Marriner.
about 2 days ago
Wigan Athletic 1 Liverpool 0: match report
Dismal Liverpool endure first defeat to Wigan Athletic in club's history as Rafael Benítez's side suffer ninth defeat of season.
about 3 days ago
Wigan v Liverpool: Rafael Benitez says side cannot afford any more slip ups this season
Liverpool manager knows there is no margin for error if side have any hope of retaining Champions League status.
about 3 days ago
Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez tells Alberto Aquilani to be patient
Liverpool manager anxious to quash rumours of Alberto Aquilani exit by assuring Italian of his long-trem future at Anfield.
about 4 days ago
Wigan v Liverpool: match preview
Read a full preview of the Premier League match between Wigan and Liverpool at DW Stadium on Monday March 08 2010, kick-off 20.00 GMT.
about 6 days ago

Daily Mail

QPR manager Warnock eyes up move for disgraced ex Wigan striker King
Neil Warnock will ponder giving Marlon King a route back into football. He has been in prison since October, serving an 18-month term for sexual assault and causing ABH.
about 9 hours ago
Benitez defends Gerrard over V-sign as FA opt against charging Liverpool star
Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has defended Steven Gerrard following allegations the midfielder made a V sign towards referee Andre Marriner during the defeat by Wigan.
yesterday
Liverpool are a mess! Wigan chairman Whelan sticks boot into sorry Reds
Wigan chairman Dave Whelan has rubbed salt in Liverpool's wounds by branding the Anfield club 'a mess' and slating the club's unpopular American owners.
yesterday
Wigan 1 Liverpool 0: Rodallega rocks Rafa as Reds blow chance to go fourth
When Roberto Martinez claimed that fourth place is Liverpool's to lose, it was meant to be a vote of confidence in his compatriot Rafael Benitez and not an invitation to do just that.
yesterday
Gerrard in the clear after Liverpool captain 'flashed V-sign' at ref Marriner
Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard has been told he will not be punished for apparently aiming a V-sign at referee Andre Marriner at the DW Stadium on Monday.
yesterday

Mirror

Transfer news, rumours and gossip from Thursday's papers
From today's Daily Mirror: West Ham plan triple transfer raid on Birmingham - Exclusive Tottenham target Sandro is ready to walk the walk and talk the talk Tottenham plan Belgium loan move for new Zam…
about 2 hours ago
Coyle: 'We're still in a relegation scrap'
Bolton boss warns his troops they must get back to winning ways against Wigan this weekend
about 12 hours ago
3PM Extra: The funniest things we've found on the internet today - Wednesday, March 10
The former President of the World Society of Friends of Suspenders, a pressure group formed to express disapproval with women wearing tights rather than stockings and sussies, is 74 years young today.…
yesterday
Ryan Giggs, Diego Maradona, Ricky Villa and the top 10 best dribbled goals
Nicklas Bendtner may have taken the match ball home last night - even though he gave away the fact that it was his first treble by being slightly confused as to why he was being given it - but Samir N…
yesterday
Revealed: Find out what was said in the secretly taped England team meetings
MirrorFootball can reveal why the FA are so keen to suppress publication of the secretly-taped England team meetings.We have heard part of the clandestine recordings made at the England HQ at the posh…
yesterday

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Benitez hits back at Wigan chief
Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez says Dave Whelan should concentrate on his own club after the Wigan chairman's claim that the Reds are in a mess.
yesterday
Wigan 1-0 Liverpool
Liverpool's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League suffer a setback at Wigan as the struggling Latics punish an insipid display.
about 3 days ago
Benitez hits out at Reds attitude
Rafael Benitez pulls no punches in assessing Liverpool's poor display in the 1-0 defeat by Wigan, accusing his team of lacking attitude and character.
about 2 days ago
Birmingham 1-0 Wigan
Birmingham return to winning ways as James McFadden's penalty gives them a deserved win over struggling Wigan.
about 2 weeks ago
Wigan to relay DW Stadium pitch
Wigan Athletic confirm that the pitch at the DW Stadium will be dug up and replaced at the end of the month.
about 2 weeks ago

Sky

Kirkland wants to keep momentum
Chris Kirkland believes Wigan must use their victory over Liverpool as a step towards survival.
yesterday
Benitez defence for Gerrard
Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez does not believe Steven Gerrard was guilty of an alleged V-sign towards referee Andre Marriner.
yesterday
McCarthy targets quick fix
James McCarthy is hoping Wigan can secure Premier League survival as quickly as possible.
yesterday
Whelan critical of Reds' owners
Wigan Athletic chairman Dave Whelan feels Liverpool fans are being short-changed by their American owners.
about 2 days ago
Martinez - We silenced critics
Roberto Martinez believes Wigan's 1-0 win over Liverpool will change the perception of his side.
about 2 days ago

Eurosport

Benitez leaps to Gerrard defence
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has defended Steven Gerrard following allegations the midfielder made a V sign towards referee Andre Marriner during the defeat by Wigan.
about 10 hours ago
Gerrard could be in hot water
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard could face an FA investigation after he appeared to flash a V-sign at referee Andre Marriner during his side's 1-0 defeat at Wigan on Monday night.
yesterday
Defeat leaves Benitez at a loss
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez was at a loss to explain his side's dismal performance in the 1-0 defeat to Wigan at the DW Stadium.
yesterday
Martinez hails Latics
Wigan manager Roberto Martinez expressed his delight after his side recorded only their second victory over a `big four' side with a 1-0 home win against Liverpool.
about 2 days ago
Benitez won't give up on fourth
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez vowed to carry on fighting in the club's battle for Champions League football despite suffering a significant blow in the 1-0 defeat at Wigan.
about 2 days ago

ESPN

Wigan 1-0 Liverpool: Rodallega downs sorry Reds
Wigan 1-0 Liverpool: Rodallega downs sorry Reds
yesterday
Jolly: Disjointed Liverpool undone by classy Wigan
Richard Jolly saw a poor Liverpool side surrender an opportunity to stake their claim for fourth place at Wigan.
about 1 days ago
Benitez laments poor Liverpool showing
Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez delivered a brutally honest assessment of his side's performance in their 1-0 Premier League defeat at Wigan on Monday.
about 2 days ago
Wigan Athletic v Liverpool: Preview
Wigan Athletic v Liverpool: Preview
about 4 days ago
Soccernet Preview: Wigan v Liverpool
Tom Adams previews Liverpool's trip to Wigan which is live on ESPN UK on Monday.
about 5 days ago

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Steinsson warns Wigan of backlash
Bolton full-back Gretar Steinsson has warned Wigan of a Wanderers backlash when the sides meet at the Reebok Stadium this weekend.
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Kirkland wants to keep momentum
Chris Kirkland believes Wigan must use their victory over former club Liverpool as a step towards survival in the Premier League.
yesterday
Whelan: Liverpool have no heart
Wigan chairman Dave Whelan claims Liverpool are currently in a mess, and insists the supporters at Anfield deserve better.
about 2 days ago
Martinez: Win justifies approach
Roberto Martinez hopes Wigan's first win over Liverpool will silence the critics who said the Latics could not play their way out of trouble.
about 2 days ago
Roberto not shedding tears for Rafa
Roberto Martinez does not feel too much sympathy for Rafa Benitez as he believes there are too many managers worried at the moment.
about 2 days ago

Football.co.uk

QPR manager Warnock eyes up move for disgraced ex Wigan striker King
Disgraced: King was jailed in October 2009QPR manager Neil Warnock will consider giving jailbird Marlon King a route back into football...
about 9 hours ago
Kirkland targets Trotters
Chris Kirkland is targetting Saturday's trip to Bolton as a chance for the Latics to pick up another three points in the battle to escape the bottom three of the Premierleague...
about 15 hours ago
McCarthy hoping for quick fire points
Latics youngster James McCarthy is hoping to follow up the victory over Liverpool with three points against Bolton at the weekend as the Latics aim to pull away from the relegation zone...
about 15 hours ago
Supporters club dinner - last chance for tickets
Wigan Athletic Supporters Club is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of our Freight Rover Trophy win at Wembley in 1985...
about 15 hours ago
Portsmouth game moved
The league game with Portsmouth originally scheduled for Saturday 10th April at the DW Stadium has been moved as Portsmouth reach the FA Cup Semi Finals...
about 15 hours ago

Club Call

Irishman reveals Roberto's Liverpool logic
James McCarthy says boss Roberto Martinez had Wigan in for training the day after beating Liverpool as the Bolton game is 'bigger'.
yesterday
Boss' proud day
Roberto Martinez couldn't hide his delight after Wigan's shock 1-0 win over Liverpool which moved them four points clear of the drop.
about 2 days ago
Wigan Athletic 1-0 Liverpool
Hugo Rodallega's first half strike gave Wigan their first ever win over Liverpool, whose hopes of finishing in the top four took a blow
about 3 days ago
Moses in line to start
Wigan boss Roberto Martinez may hand teenage star Victor Moses his first start when Liverpool travel to the DW Stadium on Monday.
about 3 days ago
McCarthy's Reds dilemma
Wigan midfielder James McCarthy insists he has no regrets about rejecting a £1m move to Liverpool three years ago.
about 4 days ago

Vital Wigan

War of Words Or Just A Spat?
War of Words Or Just A Spat?Vitalfootball: Wigan: 10/03/2010 20:52:00According to some media outlets a war of words has broken out between Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez and Wigan Athletic owner Dave W…
about 14 hours ago
Latics Vs Pompey Game Moved
Latics Vs Pompey Game MovedVitalfootball: Wigan: 10/03/2010 18:06:00Wigan Athletic home fixture against Portsmouth at the DW Stadium due to be played on Saturday April 10th has been put back
yesterday
Latics Res 5-0 Burnley Res
Latics Res 5-0 Burnley ResVitalfootball: Wigan: 09/03/2010 23:41:00Wigan Athletic reserves kept the feel good factor at the club high with an impressive 5-0 victory over Burnley at the Robin Park Ar…
about 1 days ago
N'Zogbia Delighted With Effort
N'Zogbia Delighted With EffortVitalfootball: Wigan: 09/03/2010 23:22:00Charles N`Zogbia was delighted that the Latics finally got back to winning ways with the 1-0 victory over Liverpool on Monday n…
about 1 days ago
Meet The Ref - Bolton Vs Latics - Mike Dean
Meet The Ref - Bolton Vs Latics - Mike DeanVitalfootball: Wigan: 09/03/2010 23:07:00The Wigan Athletic visit to the Reebok Stadium on Saturday to face local rivals Bolton Wanderers will be officiate…
about 1 days ago

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