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By Chris Whyatt
2210: We've learnt a lot tonight. Clubs must pay VAT on transfers. Everton are playing woefully at the moment. Steve Bruce is not the biggest fan of these Monday night fixtures. And the Premier League has not witnessed such a giant-busting weekend since 1922. Every day's an education. Thanks loads for your contributions, goodbye all.
2204: Looking at the bigger picture - none of the Premier League's top ten won a game this weekend. Good times for the lesser, or should I say lower, lights. A lot of less celebrated footballers have earned their wages in the past few days.
"It's arguably one of our worst performaces of the season," says Wigan boss Steve Bruce on Setanta Sports. "But we are delighted to have three points. It's a horrible time to play on a Monday night."
2202: Seems you agree...
"I'm getting fed up with these bad performances from Everton. I don't think we've played a single good game all season. We really need an inquisition to sort this mess out, because things can't go on like this," toffees1888 on 606
"Arteta has been playing like this for 12 months." Carl, from the Wirral, on 81111
"The only thing worse than this is being made to listen to a Nickleback album all the way through!" redandblack-DINHO
2158: I cannot imagine Moyes patting his players on their back and consoling them with tales of 'hard luck'. That fiery Scottish brogue will be ripping into them right now for a truly sub-standard performance. Wigan must be applauded for an efficient display. Did you lot see it like that?
2155: FULL-TIME: Wigan 1-0 Everton Lusty blast on the whistle from Rob Styles as Cahill holds his head in his hands and Wigan record their second home win of the season, moving out of the bottom three and into 15th place in the Premier League table. Newcastle drop into the relegation zone as a result.
2153: Nothing doing as yet for Everton in this frantic finale. Hold on...
Cahill's quick feet finds him some space on the edge of the box, but he blasts a left-footed shot well over the bar. A very good chance to equalise. Gone.
2149: Arteta simply refuses to vary the style of his free-kicks/ crosses. Slow and floated is his unbending philosophy. But he's having zero joy. Moyes will savage that if he does his homework on the video.
The men in luminous yellow are struggling for possession and Wigan are, lo and behold, putting their foot on it and standing firm near the corner flags! Can't blame them.
2147: Captain Phil Neville is off for Baines while Arteta takes the armband. The corner flags will have a certain magnetic appeal for Wigan from this point on you feel.
2145: "Re VAT on transfers - yes, clubs have to pay it. Where it gets complicated is where selling club is Overseas." Lloydy on 81111 text
"Could it be said that this is the lowest goals scored in one gameweek in the EPL, 15 so far?" Ian, Dundee, on 81111 text
Everton's Leighton Baines, formerly of Wigan, looks set to come on for the visitors...
2143: Everton, individually and collectively, appear totally bereft of confidence. Lescott hacks a deep cross under Kirkland's crossbar but the Wigan keeper is fouled as he catches. Ten minutes left for a Toffees equaliser... the clock is ticking.
2138: Valencia is a danger down that right for Wigan but, after fine work in mapping his progress down the touchline, he shins a cross behind for a goal-kick. It was he who created the goal, not Palacios. My belated apologies. Lee Cattermole is really grafting in that midfield too for the home side.
2135: Paul Scharner blocks from Tim Cahill with Chris Kirkland stranded in no-man's land after a Wigan defensive mix-up. Penalty shout from Everton seconds later but it's waved away by that man, yep, Mister Robert Styles.
2133: Valencia forces a decent block from Howard as he smashes a shot in from 18 yards. Neither side is really on top but while Wigan look contained and confident in flashes, Everton appear desperate.
2130: They are sometimes maligned but Wigan fans sound like they're in fine fettle. Yakubu has just hammered a wild shot into the sky with Tim Cahill, in acres of space in the left-hand side of the penalty area, screaming for a simple pass. Hideous lack of vision.
2126: A colleague far more worldy-wise than I reckons you must declare tax on prizes won in sport - so why not pay value-added tax on transfers? Back in the Lancastrian side of Greater Manchester, Everton boss David Moyes replaces Louis Saha with Victor Anichebe. The limping Frenchman looks to have a hamstring strain.
2121: "Might seem like an odd question, but do clubs play VAT on transfers?" wolfinnotts on 606
Clever touch from Saha gives Yakubu a chance but the big striker cannot wrap his foot around a close-range volley after chesting the ball down towards his feet.
2116: Wigan are really pressing now and Everton are rocking. Moyes, I feel, will be blowing a gasket. No composure from Everton and, without jumping the gun, their season is still misfiring somewhat.
Camara finished in front of an open goal then, by the way, after great work from Valencia in driving into the danger area. He literally couldn't miss - and was probably glad about that.
2113: GOAL Wigan 1-0 Everton How about that for impact? Everton pay the price for their wastefulness as Valencia breaks down the right into the opposition's penalty area before feeding fresh-as-a-daisy substitute Camara who easily slots home his first Premier League goal since December 2006.
2110: Loathe to criticise players who are quite clearly very gifted and working hard but Arteta again wastes a cross when he's got time and space and a posse of hungry forwards waiting in the box. Kirkland can catch them with his eyes shut (and sat on a deckchair, should he so desire).
2105: Striker Henri Camara - no goals in 27 games - comes on for Olivier Kapo as Wigan boss Steve Bruce shuffles his pack. Second-half is underway...
2100: "Star fish save from Howard. Schmeichel's smiling somewhere!" redwhiteandblack on 606
Back from a quick break to find everyone rightly raving about Howard's save on 606. Like this comment (above), the Everton man's stop certainly evoked memories of the Great Dane at his best.
2056: "Hi Chris, I'm supposed to be doing a structural mechanics tutorial. But i find im being distracted by the F5 button and a 22-game winning streak in freecell. Bet no-one can beat that!" Jack in Bath on the 81111 texts
2050: Half-time: Wigan 0-0 Everton Breathless end to the first 45 minutes there and how both teams are goalless I really don't know. Not a bad game this one, despite some protests on 606 and the 81111 texts...
2048: Best moment of the game as Lee Cattermole jinks past three or four floundering Everton players before drawing a top-class palm around the post from Howard.
Incredible! The Everton stopper tops that with a point-blank reaction save of genuine brilliance as the onrushing Paul Scharner powers a header towards goal from four yards out. Stuck out a palm stronger than Geoff Capes in his late 80's heyday, magnificent.
2047: I was championing Arteta for Spain's national squad last season - but not now, not on this form. Senor Mickey stands up a bizarre free-kick which floats towards Kirkland's throat when he really could have whipped one in for Everton's assorted six-footers. One minute of added time.
2043: Getting scrappy now as the chances start to recede quicker than Wayne Rooney's hairline. Only joking Wayne, happens to the best. Howard appears to be okay in goal. Scharner is down after Osman clatters into him.
2041: "If Everton don't win, am I correct in thinking none of the top ten won this weekend? Liverpool, Man U, villa, Pompey, Hull, Chelsea, Arsenal Fulham and Boro all failed to win. Wonder when the last time none of the top 10 won was.....I'm putting an early bet on 70 years ago or more." 3lions_on_the_shirt on 606
2038: Tim Cahill is so good in the air - but he just fails to loop his powerful header, from Leon Osman's great cross, underneath Chris Kirkland's bar as it lands agonisingly on the roof of Wigan's net.
At the other end, Heskey then nods down for Kapo to cleverly set up Palacios but he nods over from just five yards out. Should have scored. Tim Howard collects a weak Bramble header and appears to have a knock...
2033: "This game has "mid-table you're lucky if you see a decent half-volley" kinda feel to it thus far." Zippy, George and Bungle on 606
Tidy summation from the beloved trinity of Rainbow puppets.
2030: Is this Sunday league football? All 20 outfield players stand within 20 yards of each other as Chris Kirkland pumps a goal-kick upfield. Phil Neville slings in another long throw but they're not as 'flat', as subsequently not as successful, as Rory Delap's.
2028: Wigan need some shooting practice. After a bad Joseph Yobo error, Michael Brown hits one high, wide and not-so handsome.
2025: A viciously curling Ryan Taylor free-kick flies millimetres past Tim Howard's top corner. Very close. Would have been a nice addition to his wonder-goal at Newcastle the other week. Game has settled a bit now.
2020: Comical. Fellaini makes a horrible mess of that space-winning drag-then-pirouette trick that the great Zinedine Zidane once mastered. Figueroa then tests Everton keeper Tim Howard with a wicked low left-footer.
2017: Yakubu breaks down the left to put Saha one-on-one with Chris Kirkland but, with his weaker right foot, the ex-Manchester United man snatches at the shot which is saved by Wigan's overworked goalkeeper.
2014: Wigan's Wilson Palacios ignores the better-placed Emile Heskey to his right and skies a specualtive shot into the stands... before Everton break and Louis Saha is so close to nodding in a dangerously inswinging Tim Cahill cross. Titus Bramble looks like he nudged the Frenchman on second viewing.
2011: Great run and low cross from Louis Saha down the right has Wigan defender Paul Scharner scrambling the ball away for another corner, which comes to nothing. Not a full house at the JJB but boisterous enough.
2008: Tim Cahill leaps highest to head just over from Everton's second corner of the minutes-long match. Wigan cannot escape their own half.
2006: Immediate pressure from the visitors as Phil Neville hurls a trio of Rory Delap-like long throws into the heart of nervous Wigan's penalty area. Shaven-headed Lee Cattermole may have handled there but the danger has been snuffed out.
2003: Bit late but Everton get us underway and we're off...
1958: Everton stream out of the dressing rooms in their garish luminous yellow away kit. There's a lot of bustle in the tunnel. Only one home win in the last nine Premier League matches for Wigan - only one clean sheet in the last ten. Ouch.
Oh, and Wigan have never beaten Everton at home in the club's history. Not long now (until kick-off)...
1951: "Im going for a belting game finishing 2-4 to Everton. No real reasons for this prediction, just would be nice..." wolfinnotts on 606
"Im going to be brave and say 2-1 Wigan, with Phil Jagz scoring for Everton," FN on 606
"Vindaloo" by Fat Les is blasting out of the JJB Stadium public address system as the players, a few of whom are donning gloves, finish their warm-ups. Clear skies today in Wigan and it looks duly nippy.
1948: So, let's look a little deeper at these teams. Wigan are without their top scorer Amr Zaki, who has failed to shake off rib and calf injuries but Heskey returns after a hamstring problem. Paul Scharner switches to centre-back to cover for the suspended Emmerson Boyce and midfielder Michael Brown replaces striker Henri Camara.
Manager David Moyes has Everton unchanged from the side that drew 1-1 with Middlesbrough in their last Premier League game on 16 November. He's just cited this stability as the reason they have started to win some games.
Not really seen any Everton stars such as Arteta and Cahilll do the business yet the season, have we?
1945: Stats are not my strong point but some people just excel at digging into the history books and number-crunching.
"The last time that all four failed to score on the same calendar day, and without there being a big four clash, was over 86 years ago on 18 March 1922," I have been reliably informed here at BBC Towers, which is being heartily backed up by many of you on 606.
1936: Not been handed the teamsheets myself but we are informed Amr Zaki is not fit to play for Wigan: big blow for them. Emile Heskey starts though.
Given that goals dried up like the UK economy at the weekend, surely they top the neutral's wishlist for this Monday night battle under dark Lancashire skies.
1930: I won't lie to you - I can't. But some wag out there, I've just discovered, has unearthed the month and year when Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal all failed to score on the same weekend: September 1993.
John "Motty" Motson is currently discussing that very topic on The Monday Night Club over on BBC Radio 5 Live (who, incidentally, will have full commentary on Wigan v Everton tonight). He says it's good for the "democracy" of the Premier League. Agree?
1920: Evening folks. That was a fairly remarkable weekend of Premier League football, don't you think.
Can you remember the last time the so-called 'Big Four' or, to put a different slant on it, the top five teams in the top-flight were shut out by tight-fisted opposing defences and thus failed to score a single goal between them?
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