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More like it
That was more like it! For week’s we’ve wanted the real Wigan Athletic to step up. Or at least the Wigan Athletic we saw in August. On a bitterly cold and wet afternoon in South London they did just that. Ryan Lowe had spoken about a feeling in training during the week and so many […]
Back to it
We’ve not been affected as much this season as in previous seasons, but the EFL really need to get a grip of International Breaks for clubs in League One’s and Two’s. The amount of lost revenue to club’s missing out on Saturday fixtures through no fault of their own. We only had half of the […]
Other Stuff
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 […]
Wiggin Girls
Wiggin Girls ……… by T’ Pie Shop Boys. Sometimes when you’re in your shed, There’s a pie in your ‘and, it’s as heavy as lead Go on a diet, but tha’s just not able Too fat for chairs, can’t fit under tables, In a chippy, in a West Lancs Town Pudding Fish & Chips, there’s […]
Puffers to Pemps
On the fifth anniversary of the demolition of one iconic Wigan landmark, we take in some 2009 memories of the place from Tony Topping… This summer a legend passed away, loved by some and hated by many. If your thinking Michael Jackson think again dear friend, the legend was Barbara Calderbank. My association with Barbara, […]
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
14 Games to Go, a 9 Point Gap & 50 points to Safety!
Okay the first 2 parts of the Title are factually correct, the 3rd & probably the most important is an assumption using basic Math. Both Rotherham & Brighton are on 34 points having played 32 games. So if I remember what Mrs Satisfield taught me at Holy Family School, New Springs, using basic statistics, they […]
Sure and simple time – Bolton report
Bolton 4-1 Latics Sunday 9th December 2007 You can try to keep the sunny side up as hard as you like, but when you’re faced with the type of situation Latics are in, after the sort of performance they’ve just mustered at their nearest rivals (at kick off – both on and off the pitch) […]
Them and us – Joe Hinnigan (Latics and Sunderland)
Joe, who was born in Liverpool on 3rd December 1955, arrived at Springfield Park in August 1975 after being signed by Brian Tiler for a fee of £1,200 from South Liverpool. He had represented Kirkby Schools at Junior, Under 14’s and Under 15’s level before signing a contract at Everton without making the grade. A […]
Mudhutter Issue 47 incoming
With our all new German style efficiency the latest issue of the Mudhutter hits the streets this weekend with 48 pages of carefully thought out prose and pictures from Wigan’s finest selection of helmets. A more pensive, reflective, provocative, expensive, selective, creative, primitive, vegetative pamphlet you could not wish to acquire if you are so […]