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The more things change, the more they stay the same
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” So the post Lowe era began with less of a bang and more of a whimper – that’s unfair really, there was definite improvements but sadly not enough for a result on the night. Latics started off so brightly in contrast to the last few […]
Not a fit for Wigan Athletic, then, now indeed ever
Two months too late but finally the decision that should have been made has been made. Embarrassing that it took a 6-1 mauling to do it. Rather than any sort of recognition of the malaise we’ve found ourselves in for the majority of this season. A club legend last season who hadn’t seen us in […]
Other Stuff
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 […]
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 […]
A pathetic shopping spree
If you move in certain Twitter circles then you’ll have come across The Pathetic Casuals. Once they were young lads and lasses, touring the country in following the team they love, dressed up the nines and making sure they were seen and heard. Now, as age, parenthood, mortgages and world weariness catches up with them, […]
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Wigan Athletic Football League players – A to Z – (Rachid Bouaouzan to Lee Butler)
RACHID BOUAOUZAN – LEE BUTLER BOUAOUZAN, Rachid DOB: 20th February 1984 Other clubs: Sparta Rotterdam, NEC Nijmegen, Helsingborgs Honours: Holland Under 21’s ( – ) Rachid was new manager, Chris Hutching’s, eighth summer signing. He arrived at the JJB Stadium on 30th August 2007 from Sparta Rotterdam, his only other professional club, and signed […]
Who mentioned Empty Seats?
Just a reminder that The Empty Seats are doing a Charity Christmas gig at The Honeysuckle pub in Poolstock tomorrow (Saturday 22nd December 2012) from 4pm. As the more observant of you may have noticed this is around about an hour or so after the Arsenal game has finished giving you just enough time […]
Everton agree Roberto Martinez Compensation
So we’ve been working late here at the TNS Offices in Wigan. Ironically it’s coincided with the expected news that Everton, have agreed with Big Dave, compensation for Roberto Martinez.[PPD_PAYTOREADMORE] Assuming the remaining step is now for Roberto to agree the ‘Terms & Conditions’ with Bill Kenwright! We expect to see a picture of Roberto, an Everton […]
Pre Season’s over and the pressure is on.
Football Manager 2012 (FM) is up and running and already with only the pre season completed I am feeling the pressure. FM is an amazingly realistic game and there are a few things you notice straight away. The first was that FM12 lists Kirkland as out injured with his back, this is before his […]