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Isolationist football chat
Cure those self isolation blues with a non invasive dose of the Pie At Night podcast. We start off with a focussed discussion about football, things we miss from the past and what we think football will be like in the future but it quickly degenerates into bickering over postcodes and poached eggs. We talk […]
To The Dream
To the dream was the slogan from sponsors Budweiser during the competition and I wrote this soon after the final to relive some great memories. My hometown team achieved the ultimate childhood dream on Saturday 11 May 2013. Against the odds, Wigan Athletic, whose squad cost £11m, defeated last season’s Premier League champions Manchester City, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Wigan Athletic Football League players – A to Z – (Olivier Kapo to Andy Lyons)
OLIVIER KAPO – ANDY LYONS KAPO Olivier DOB: 27th September 1980 Other clubs: Auxerre, Juventus, Monaco, Levante, Birmingham City, Boulogne, Celtic, Al-Alhi, Auxerre Honours: France (9 caps, 3 goals) Olivier became Steve Bruce’s second summer signing of 2008. He arrived at the JJB Stadium on 15th July 2008, signing a three-year contract for a fee […]
Camara, Action – News Round Up
A busy week at the JJB? It may well have been, but as we have come accustomed there’s been little in the way of news coming out of the club. There’s no doubting that the real story of the week is the extra days off Henri Camara managed to pick up by not turning up […]
Injury ravaged Latics suffer gallant defeat against the Champions
A Wigan side lacking three central midfielders and three centre backs eventually succumbed to Manchester City but for seventy minutes Wigan were more than a match for their more illustrious opponents and had Kone shown more composure in front of goal Wigan may have come away from a freezing DW stadium with at least a share […]
Sunderland or Sevilla for Rodders?
Martinez resigned to losing Rodallega Wigan Athletic manager Roberto Martinez is reportedly bracing himself for a bid from Sevilla for Colombia striker Hugo Rodallega. There are also a lot of Premier League clubs hoping to entice him to stay in England, not least that collector of Latics players Steve Bruce at Sunderland who sees Hugo […]