Latics
Football
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The TNS archive
Non League Day
A few of the “northern soul” team venture to other grounds especially on the rising star that is non-league day. As the FSF so eloquently puts it ….. NLD is a celebration of football outside of the 92 league sides and gives fans of those clubs the opportunity to experience football at a level they […]
Toffee tinted glasses
I’ll not be at the game today. I’ve plenty of reasons, but I’ll regret it. There’s not many experiences like a trip to Goodison left in the game. As much as there’ll be those who complain about the views and the ground in general there’ll be those who’ll fondly reminisce as they approach the old […]
Bent on the Bouaouz to Latics
What was it I said about waiting until January? Well Latics are well on the way to signing two players and yet neither of them is a left back. Neither of them is exactly going to get the fan’s juices flowing either. What does it say about the state of the game when your first […]
Frightnight – Everton report
Latics 1-1 Everton Tuesday 1st February 2006 What, for much of the 90 minutes, looked like to be a game to forget exploded into 10 minutes of controversy, red cards and confusion. Ok, you’re right, I’m taking a bit of Journalistic license there. The game had little to recommend it, and anyone who was surprised […]