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It’s happened again
How do you begin to describe a night like Tuesday I’ve not really got the words, there have been some fantastic high points this season – undoubtedly some low points as well. But they would be expected in a season where we started on minus eight points and are having to re-build the club from […]
Under the lights
Has anybody got any fingernails left after Saturday? Talk about nervy endings to a match. Saturday was a really important result, for one Shrewsbury are close to us in the table and secondly it was a return to winning ways after two disappointing defeats against both Exeter and Oxford. Latics looked in control against Shrewsbury […]
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A very Soulful Christmas
In a Soulful Christmas Mood The Christmas song has been given a bad press in recent years, no doubt partly influenced by Simon Cowell and his legacy of X-Factor one week wonders that hijacked the Christmas number one for over a decade. Add in to that the various novelty Christmas songs and generic pop songs […]
Dancing with Ghosts…
As you wake up with the fear from your work’s do and head towards the chaos of Mad Friday, Tony Topping reminds us that, sometimes, you do want to remember those Christmas nights out. Dancing With The Ghosts Of Wigan Casino, 1973 The cold December wind cut through the hole in the window and its […]
Blackpool calling
It’s New Year and that can only mean one thing, not a return to work not a set of un-assailable New Year resolutions but for me and over a thousand other people THE soul music event of the year. For the uninitiated let me set some context to this claim. Now in to a fourteenth […]
Brut: not just an aftershave
With Saturday’s game against Sheffield Wednesday on the horizon, we’ve been turning our minds to things that would be worth going to Sheffield for, even if you didn’t want to pay £33 to get into a football match. Chris pointed us in the direction of one of Sheffield’s less expected landmarks and this article that […]
The TNS archive
Amaya set for Real Betis transfer
Wigan Athletic defender Antonio Amaya is reportedly on the verge of signing for Real Betis, with a deal of around the three hundred thousand pounds mark set to tempt manager Roberto Martinez to part company with him. He arrived at the DW Stadium as part of the three million pounds deal that brought Momo Diame […]
Them and us – John Filan (Wigan Athletic and Australia)
With the Olympics beckoning TNS would like to take the opportunity to look back at the career of a few former Latics players who have represented their countries at the Olympics, starting with the mercurial John Filan. John, who was born in Sydney on 8th February 1970 signed for Latics in a £600,000 deal from […]
Huws can be the key player
With less than a week to go to the first training session of the new season the summer sell off at Wigan Athletic is starting to gather momentum. Scott Carson has already gone to Derby and it looks like James McClean is off to West Bromwich and Rob Kiernan to Rangers. The latest rumour is […]
FA.Trophy Final GBFC vs CUFC
“Our second home” Wembley Stadium will host a David vs Goliath clash in this years FA.Trophy Final. Cambridge United who are riding high in the Conference Premier (2nd in fact) will play against Gosport Borough who reside in twentieth place of the Conference South. Alex Pike, manager of The Borough is a lively character to […]