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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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
The TNS archive
Miller time at the DW as weary Wigan falter
A remarkable last stanza at the DW last night saw five goals scored including a fine late brace from loan striker Ismael Miller saw a fatigued Wigan drop two points in their chase for the play offs. A much changed Wigan side following the fine win at Ipswich saw Wigan with Nick Powell to […]
Another day
… another bid, another player who it looks like doesn’t even want to talk to us. Whether we’ve bid 1.5, 2 or more millions for Norwich’s Damien Francis is irrelevant, it looks very much as if we’re being used as a bargaining tool to drag more money out of Portsmouth, or any other club that […]
“You’ve got no history”
Ah, yes that time honoured retort. Usually opined by those simply minded buffoons who seem to be misguided into thinking “trophies” equal “history”. Funnily enough we have a lot of those in our town seeing as we have one sporting team who hoovers up trophies for fun in their narrow gene pool given the competition […]
The Europa League Matchdates for your diary
Matchday One – 19 September v SV Zulte Waregem (A) Matchday Two – 3 October v NK Maribor (H) Matchday Three – 24 October v Rubin Kazan (H) Matchday Four – 7 November v Rubin Kazan (A) Matchday Five – 28 November v SV Zulte Waregem (H) Matchday Six – 12 December v NK […]