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Night and Day
Night and Day, no not the infamous Oldham Street Manchester venue but the difference between the Wigan Athletic performance against Stockport and Sheffield Wednesday. There was much trepidation heading over the Pennines after the previous Saturday but all of that was dispelled by arguably the best performance of the season. Latics arrived at Hillsborough rock […]
Don’t call it a comeback
In which, after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, Jimmy, Alan and Chris carry on like nothing has ever happened in the hope that no one will notice. If they even listen at all, that is. There’s been plenty of water under the bridge since the last time we took to the airwaves and Jimmy bravely starts by […]
Other Stuff
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 […]
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
Late winner deepens Wigan’s gloom
Wigan arrived at St James Park seeking to break a losing run of five Premier League games and win their first ever Premier League game away against Newcastle United. Wigan manager Roberto Martinez opted to freshen things up replacing Di Santo, McCarthy and Gohuri with the returning Rodallega and Figueroa and handing a Premier League […]
Grant us the goals
The signing of Grant Holt might well be a landmark for Wigan Athletic. The centre-forward’s rise through the divisions mirrors that of the club he has joined – early years in non-league football followed by a period of consolidation in each of the three Football League divisions before enjoying Premier League success. Like Wigan Athletic, he has come up […]
Expect nothing but a good time
I suspect this advice is going to go above everyone’s head but I’ll say it anyway: KEEP CALM! No need for any big blue poster or catchy soundbite afterwards just a requirement to sit on the unprecedented giddiness witnessed before Wigan Athletic play a game where the stakes are massive and expectations are high. I […]
The TNS Top 50 All time Latics players: Number 40 – Ian Kilford
So we’ve had a little dalliance with the present and recent past there in the high forties entries and now as we enter the part of the contest where the Top 40 Wigan Athletic players start to be revealed, we cast our eyes back a little bit further to a player who was a firm […]