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Something has to change
It has to change, somehow something’s got to change. We thought that change or rather that progression had finally come against Preston, but the more Saturday went on and the more disgraceful the performance it felt like we’d left everything on the pitch at Deepdale. Not because it was Wigan Athletic and it was the […]
The season for giving
So much for my assertion last week that things were improving, things took a huge and somewhat worrying step backwards on Saturday afternoon. In seasons like this – where increasingly promotion looks beyond us the minimum that you would hope for is to succeed in the local derbies or at least put up a bit […]
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Wigan Pies for Wigan People
Here at the Pie At Night we believe in attending a football match (or indeed rugby) involves more than just watching the game. A pie, a pint, a chat with your mates are all part of the matchday experience. We have had numerous conversations about the standard of match day catering at the DW Stadium […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Whatever happens – football? It doesn’t really matter
So fourteen weeks on from when we should have played Huddersfield it’s coming back – rightly or wrongly Wigan Athletic will return to competitive football. I’ve been clear throughout this that I didn’t think football should return, it feels wrong to consider football in this context when there are still thousands losing their lives each […]
Things that make you go mmm – Man City
A welcome (?) return for the feature that looks at the subjects we’ll be talking about in the lead up to the game. This week it’s off to the City of Manchester stadium where I doubt much time will be spent cogitating over the Commonwealth Games or the architecture. There’ll be plenty of back slapping […]
Need cheering up? Try this….
I’m not normally one for facts and figures but if you’re looking to try and salvage happiness from the gloom of Tuesday night, why not have a read below. It might just make you realise what a huge event Saturday was. Just in case you were in any doubt….
Progress Report: Owen Coyle
Owen Coyle surely knows that the npower Championship is not an easy place for a football manager. He has been there twice before. In the 2008-09 season he was successful, taking Burnley back to the top tier of English football for the first time since 1976. Just over three years later his inability to halt […]