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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
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The TNS archive
Nottingham Forest vs Wigan Athletic – Match Preview
We had some tough discussions in the TNS Office in the past 48 hours. Unless you’ve been living under a rock in Wigan, you’ll realise no matter what ‘Sound bite’ comes out of Wigan Athletic, Football has been placed on the back foot, in the preference to Business Asset Management. Well that is what I’ve […]
Latics pay price for ill discipline in Millwall defeat
A bad tempered game which saw three players sent off, two from Wigan saw Millwall score two goals after the initial dismissal of Waghorn, a defeat which leaves Wigan on the cusp of relegation to league one.
The best of Nick Powell [video]
Now the dust has settled on an eventful season for Wigan Athletic we can take the opportunity to look back on some of its highlights. Despite not appearing in those crucial games at the end of the season, Nick Powell certainly left us lots of memories. The video below is kindly shared with us by […]
You win nowt with kids . . . . . or do you ?
In 1964 non-league Wigan Athletic did so well to reach the big round of the FA Youth Cup and were drawn away at Everton. It was a wonderful achievement for Latics’ youth team to get to that stage and it captured my interest. My friend, Melvyn, knew Vic Gaskell, Latics youth team goalkeeper, and badgered […]