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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
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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Wigan Athletic v Dundee United Preview
On Saturday, Wigan Athletic play host to Dundee United at the DW Stadium. It will be their final warm-up fixture before the Championship season starts for the at Barnsley on August 3rd. By the time it gets to the final pre-season game a manager tends to have a good idea of what his first choice […]
West Ham United vs Wigan Athletic – League Cup 3rd Round
Well this will have to be quick, we are branching the TNS Offices out to a 2nd Office in London. So I’ve been the one to spearhead our expansion in to the Big Smoke, or London to you & me. Anyway, Wigan’s next match, a 7:45pm kick off on Tuesday the 25th September at Upton […]
So good they
Well, if England played international class football last night then half the Latics team deserve to be at the World Cup in the summer. After an average first half, they managed to ship four goals in what has to be the most spineless second half I’ve seen at that level. If that game was supposed […]
From Wigan with Style
The spectacular fireworks that followed Latics 4-1 win over the Pittsburgh Riverhounds provided a fitting finale for the first phase Owen Coyle’s revolution at Wigan. It is only around five weeks since the effervescent Scotsman took over at the club, but a lot has happened in that time. To be honest, Coyle’s appointment […]