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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 […]
Grinding out results
It’s looking better isn’t it? Latics travelled to Huddersfield on Saturday happy to be in to the hat for the FA Cup third round but not exactly buoyed by the performance against Barrow last time out. A conservative line-up in the Pennines saw Christian Saydee as Latics only recognised striker but you wouldn’t have known […]
Other Stuff
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The TNS archive
Just another manic, err, Tuesday
I suppose the time has come to give up on thoughts of last season’s end of term review (with apologies to Charles N’Zogbia, Maynor Figueroa, James McCarthy and the teams that beat Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool). It might only seem like a week or so since the World Cup final, but with the season breathing […]
Wigan fail to fire as Blackpool take the points
On an afternoon of torrential rain during which supporters would not have been surprised to see Noah’s ark sailing up the river Douglas, Wigan turned in another damp squib of a performance, their third consecutive league game without scoring. Wigan made four changes to the side which lost against Barnsley last week, with Love, Cowie, […]
Love thy neighbour?
Feeling nauseous? Nervous tension headache? Upset stomach fuelled by anticipation? It must be local derby time. The insults are flying as ever across social media no mans’ land. My favourites include Bolton fans telling us it’s our biggest game of the season – two weeks before we play an FA Cup semi final! Of course […]
200 Up for No 17
Emmerson made his 200th league start for Latics away at Huish Park, he signed for Wigan Athletic from Palace for an initial £1m just in 2006 after we got into the greed league. An international for Barbados his career started at Luton Town and has become a firms fans favorite at The DW.