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Gotta Hold On To This Feeling
How great a feeling is it not to spend every day wondering whether or not your football club will survive? The pain of the last nine months won’t disappear in a hurry but the relief of the last week has been palatable, we’ve got to hold on to this feeling and try to harness that […]
After the Lord Mayors Show
Saturday definitely had the feeling of after the Lord Mayor’s Show for me. The excitement of three matches unbeaten and a takeover virtually completed gave way to that familiar feeling of Latics being just not quite good enough. Saturday’s match with Accrington started in the finest possible way. A Callum Lang goal within the opening […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The TNS archive
It’s a wash out
Paul Jewell must have had mixed feelings as the rain pounded on to the Vicarage Road pitch. The frustration of a missed opportunity to put some distance back between his side and the relegation places offset somewhat by a performance that was short of guaranteeing Latics the points they desperately needed. In fact the weather […]
Give up while we’re ahead
Latics 1-2 Manchester United Saturday 14th October 2006 For the first 15 minutes of this game Paul Jewell must have been pleased. His side looked like they finally understood what he’d been trying to tell them for the last 3 months. They pushed and pressured United in every part of the pitch, were direct without […]
Black or coloured ?
Now this isn’t a rant about “the good old days” and they should always wear black boots, however the mould was broken when ginger head Alan Ball wore white boots whilst at Everton back in the mists of time. (Under 30′s ask yer Grandad) The opening match this season Latics against Reading saw all 22 […]
Adventures in MySpace pt1
Well, MySpace might be dead, or dying, but if anything that adds to it’s attraction for me. It was the first Social Network I got into (apart from the so un-user friendly one that goes by the name of life) but I’ve left my MySpace alone for ages and can’t summon the energy to drag […]