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Half the story
Four points from a tricky looking week, rising to the top half of the table, three points from a play-off place. It should be all smiles at the Brick but that only tells half the tale. Latics laboured to a point against a Stevenage side who seemed happy enough to return to Hertfordshire with that […]
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 […]
Other Stuff
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 […]
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
January
Okay December was always going to be a killer month, in the end we came out of it with 6 points with unlikely points against Chelsea & Liverpool. As TNS’ Bernard said on November’s Brewery Trip, “why can’t we get points in December?” & well Bernard we did, 6 in all. So to January, another […]
A welcome update
You’ve probably not noticed but it’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted anything on the site. It would be nice to say that I’ve had a nice couple of weeks, sitting back and watching the world go by, but why lie? No, the lack of ‘Not a patch on…’ related activity is […]
Manchester City 0 Wigan Athletic 1
There’s an old adage in football that on any given day a good little ‘un can beat a good big ‘un. Yesterday that happened as Wigan Athletic with a team that cost eleven million pounds and due to injury virtually picked itself beat a Manchester City team valued at 0ne hundred and fifty million and […]
Happy slapping
Let’s get the obvious things out of the way first. Yes, everyone expected this to be a relegation battle; yes, both teams have done really well this season and yes, it’s refreshing to see freshly promoted teams ‘challenging’ for Europe. Tomorrow’s game was always likely to be a key game for both teams and the […]