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Night and Day
Night and Day, no not the infamous Oldham Street Manchester venue but the difference between the Wigan Athletic performance against Stockport and Sheffield Wednesday. There was much trepidation heading over the Pennines after the previous Saturday but all of that was dispelled by arguably the best performance of the season. Latics arrived at Hillsborough rock […]
Don’t call it a comeback
In which, after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, Jimmy, Alan and Chris carry on like nothing has ever happened in the hope that no one will notice. If they even listen at all, that is. There’s been plenty of water under the bridge since the last time we took to the airwaves and Jimmy bravely starts by […]
Other Stuff
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 […]
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, […]
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
Wigan Athletic vs Rotherham United – Match Preview
Less busy week for TNS, the only controversy we’ve had is Big Dave admitting he’s ‘Guilty!’ Though Wigan Athletic wisely told Dave not to attend the hearing, in the fear his first words in Court when realising it was a female presiding judge was “Milk, 2 Sugars, Love”. So it’s meant we’ve been able to […]
We were once a non-league club not long ago
FA Cup Winners 2013, The Premiership for eight seasons but just a few Sky Sports Yearbooks nee Rothmans editions past, Wigan Athletic were proud members of the Northern Premier League in the 1977-78 season. A lot of glory and huge disappointment’s has been seen by the Springfield Park and latterly the JJB/DW faithful, that is […]
Vote Mudhutter!
The Football Supporters’ Federation is holding it’s annual awards for independent fan’s publication and The Mudhutter has again been nominated. Now we’re not in it for fame or money, we’re shy wall flower types but hey, you never know, maybe like the football club we purport to write about we can spring a surprise for […]
First impressions count
You want to know why Roberto Martinez won’t play 4-4-2? It’s because he thinks that it’s too easy to play against. You want to know why he persists with Jason Scotland? It’s because he believes he’s a very good player who needs to catch a break. You want to know what Jordi Gomez brings to […]