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Action replay
When faced with a situation like this, we have a perennial problem: everyone has an opinion but what is needed is ACTION. Wednesday 1st July 2020. I’m trying to leave my phone alone but my mind is whirring and I’d like to do a rare thing and apologise. It’s not something I ever do on […]
There’s more than football to watch out for at Wigan Athletic
It’s football Jim, but not as we know it. Latics are back in action tomorrow, behind closed doors and with a great deal of uncertainty around how the rest of the season will pan out. In these strange times, with no income, staff furloughed and players deferring wages a lot of clubs’ financial futures will […]
Other Stuff
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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Dundee United @ The DW
Wigan Athletic can announce they will take on Scottish Premier League side Dundee United in a pre-season friendly at the DW Stadium on Saturday 27 July with a 3.00pm kick off. The game will see new Manager Owen Coyle take charge of his first home game at the DW Stadium, one week […]
Another Latics legend leaves us – RIP Neil Davids
DAVIDS, Neil DOB: 22nd September 1955 Other clubs: Leeds United, Norwich City, Northampton Town, Stockport County, Swansea City, Bromsgrove Rovers Neil, a former England Youth International, was signed by Ian McNeill from Swansea City prior to Latics’ first season as a Football League club and he proved a huge hit with fans for his ‘no […]
Them and us – Joe Hinnigan (Latics and Sunderland)
Joe, who was born in Liverpool on 3rd December 1955, arrived at Springfield Park in August 1975 after being signed by Brian Tiler for a fee of £1,200 from South Liverpool. He had represented Kirkby Schools at Junior, Under 14’s and Under 15’s level before signing a contract at Everton without making the grade. A […]
Retro shirt No2 for you
The new merchandise catalogue arrived at Aspull Towers and page13 shows an addition to the retro range, the 1995-97 shirt along with a white jacket, also note the northern soul logo’ Also interestingly on page 27 is the announcement that a new clothing collection entitled “The Tree & Crown by Wigan Athletic.” Is to be […]