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Before it’s too late
We or rather the collective we, IE me – said that last week something had to change. Well we’ve now reached the point where that change required is immediate. Wigan Athletic need a change of management with urgency or for the first time in over thirty years Wigan Athletic could find themselves in the bottom […]
Something has to change
It has to change, somehow something’s got to change. We thought that change or rather that progression had finally come against Preston, but the more Saturday went on and the more disgraceful the performance it felt like we’d left everything on the pitch at Deepdale. Not because it was Wigan Athletic and it was the […]
Other Stuff
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, […]
A very Soulful Christmas
In a Soulful Christmas Mood The Christmas song has been given a bad press in recent years, no doubt partly influenced by Simon Cowell and his legacy of X-Factor one week wonders that hijacked the Christmas number one for over a decade. Add in to that the various novelty Christmas songs and generic pop songs […]
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 […]
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 […]
The TNS archive
Lacklustre Latics earn draw
Roberto Martinez made nine changes to the starting line up from the previous Premeir League with only Boyce and Figueroa retained and the resultant disjointed performance against a Bournemouth side that played with pace and passion and no little skill meant that the home side can consider themselves lucky to still be in the F.A.Cup.
Southampton vs Wigan Athletic Preview (2012/13)
So to the 2nd match of the 2012/13 Premier League season. An away trip to Southampton & the first time we’ve ever played “The Saint’s” in the Football League. We can tell this in the TNS Offices here in Wigan, as Peter is rather looking forward to the match. He’s programmed SO14 5FP into his […]
Twinned with Brazil & Spain
Soon to be at Stamford Bridge, ex-Atlético Madrid’s centre forward Diego Costa who is a La Liga winner but a Champions League runner-up now has a bigger fish to fry. It is virtually unknown for a top-flight Brazilian to snub his homeland and opt for a rival nation as he did in September last year. […]
Delayed reaction – Liverpool Report
Latics 0-1 Liverpool Saturday 29th September 2007 I’m never quite sure whether my lackadaisical approach to deadlines is a good thing or not. As far as match reports are concerned, it often gets to the stage where I wonder whether it’s worth it at all. By the time Wednesday comes around, I’ve forgotten the finer […]