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Have I missed anything?
There are podcast episodes that begin with a slick intro, a silky fade-in, and the unmistakable whiff of professionalism. This is not one of them. tPAN EP085 – “Did I miss anything?” opens in the rubble of a previous episode that apparently contained the best content ever recorded — except, crucially, it wasn’t recorded. So […]
The season begins on Saturday (again)
It’s been a truly horrific start to the season for Wigan Athletic, there’s no way around it. We’re staring relegation to League Two in the face unless we start picking up results and picking up those results on a regular basis. The last seven days have been a perfect example of how our season has […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
Home or Away…
I wanna tell you a story as Max Bygraves used to say. Around eighteen months ago, I started working in Manchester city centre again and fairly quickly became aghast at the number of people living on the street. Not just opportunist chancers squatting on the pavement on Piccadilly with a Starbucks cup plonked in front […]
Johnson to pull rug from under Wigan
Stories coming out of Merseyside this morning are suggesting that Everton are the third club to have a bid accepted for Crystal Palace striker Andy Johnson. The suggestion is that Everton’s bid meets the £8.5 million bid that Latics and Bolton made, but has more similarity to the Bolton deal as the money will not […]
When you shake hands with the devil you have to pay the price
Apparently Sir Alex is non too pleased @ Sky having a hold over football fixtures. He believes TV is god @ the moment when it comes to Football and Football clubs have little or no say over when they play their football. Is this the Pot calling the Kettle Black? It’s a shame really when […]
Pok-ing fun
I play poker, or at least I do if it’s still called poker when you play as badly as I do. It’s probably just called “slow money transfer” or “pissing your disposable income up the wall”. It’s not that I don’t know how to play poker, at least at a basic level, it’s just that […]