A Pocket Guide to Beating Wigan

Despite having one or two new dates embossed into our diaries since you last called in- most notably one pertaining to a trip to the San Siro in early November- the haste in which our next fixture has bounded over the horizon means we’ve been afforded little chance to gaze too far off into the distance. Time waits for no man and Wigan make their way to White Hart Lane on the back of some ghastly form. A cataclysmic opening day fall-out with Tango FC, followed shortly by an even heavier, if less surprising, defeat to Chelsea in Week Two and Martinez’s lot are already bailing water out of the dingy with some urgency. I don’t profess to know any Wigan supporters but I imagine there’s more than a few quivers of concern at camp DW.

But, as they, say, a week is a long time in football and any hint of points for them later and things will look remarkably rosier. Much as anything other than a win for us would put the dampeners on our mid-week antics and have the doomsayers out in their droves again. It can all change in an instant. Look at Villa. A plot graph of their season since MO’N left would look like a Toblerone.

The crumbs of team news as I write this has Gomes and Modric still sidelined; the former’s groin remains tweaked from Wednesday night. All that leaping about after Crouch’s opener, apparently. From what I’ve seen of Cudicini since his return from injury, however, there’s no reason to believe that the Brazilian’s short stint on the treatment table will give us much cause to panic. He’s as cool as that new Dyson bladeless fan, is our Carlo. Nay bother there.

Everything points to a win today. Should we find messrs Bale and Lennon in favourable mood then you’d struggle to locate anything in Wigan’s backline that would have any means to stop them. The Welshman’s in the form of his life and his right-sided counterpart is just clicking through the gears. Somewhere near six, if you ask me. And, without sounding disrespectful to them, I reckon that might just be enough.

Up and atom!

3-0 to The Spurs