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Looking up
It’s been a strange old week. It started full of optimism after a very strong performance against Barnsley in the EFL Cup the previous Saturday that should have never ended in defeat. Being bridged in the middle with an awful first half performance against Cambridge but a fightback of sorts. Before a win in the […]
It’s never dull is it?
It’s never dull is it (c) Understatement of the century that particular Wigan Athletic phrase. Another twenty four hours, another episode of upheaval, another period of instability. We should be used to them by now, but each time this happens the more damaging the feeling among the fanbase. So let’s recap […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The TNS archive
Child’s play – League cup report
Arsenal 3-0 LaticsTuesday 11th November 2008 Is there only me that reckons there’s something bordering on indecent in how giddy the press got over this game? I don’t remember the League Cup Final getting this much attention three years back, let alone the game against Arsenal, and why? Because i) the French Dario Gradi sent […]
High lite
The suggestion that “it’s only Sunderland” just goes to show how differently some of our fans are viewing this season. OK, it wasn’t like the big boys were in town, but come the end of the season; it will be this game, and those like it that will provide a real measure of our success. […]
Magnificent Mackems
A SOUTH Tyneside football fan behind a fundraising appeal set up in memory of two Newcastle United fans killed in the MH17 airline disaster says he is overwhelmed it has topped the £20,000 mark. Lifelong Magpies fan John Alder, 63, and Liam Sweeney, 28, were among the 298 people killed when their plane was reportedly […]
Them and us – Gareth Whalley (Swindon Town and Wigan Athletic)
Tomorrow’s sell out FA Cup game against Swindon Town at the County Ground gives TNS the opportunity to look back on the career of Gareth Whalley. Gareth was born in Manchester on 19th December 1973. He played mostly as a holding midfielder and started his career at Crewe Alexandra, for whom he signed under the […]