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Clicking, gelling, building
Clicking, gelling, call it what you like but it feels like there’s something special building with this side now. For the last four matches Wigan Athletic have definitely been the better side, across both halves. Now that’s been more successful in some matches than others. Bolton was just a gloriously professional performance from minute one. […]
When it comes together
They often say it’s darkest before the light, and the build up to last weekends match was particularly dark. No doubt Latics had laboured in the previous three matches, but Leyton Orient apart there wasn’t a match we were outclassed. Two matches where we should have done a lot better certainly? Outclassed? Not at all. […]
Other Stuff
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
Northern Soul – Ed Jones
Less than 2,000 people cared one way or the other whether the club folded or not. But, this dedicated Latics ‘journo’ was there at a time when it was most certainly fashionable to be elsewhere. That man was Ed Jones. Ed’s two passions in life (apart, I sense, from his wife and family), are music […]
Bizarre Love Triangle
Safety with a game to spare, what was all the fuss about? Saturday was a bizarre day, the last year of following our football club has been bizarre but Saturday was the most bizarre of the lot. With so much riding on the result, in normal times there would be a convoy of Latics fans […]
Is Rosler looking towards Brentford?
“We will be investing in our playing and coaching staff, and I think it’s important to keep working on changing the culture at the football club.” So said Uwe Rosler to the Wigan Evening Post this week. When Roberto Martinez took over as manager of Wigan Athletic in June 2009, he quickly got to […]
Quality on its way out
We need the right offer. I don’t want to stop the lad from going into the Premier League.” The words of Dave Whelan regarding the probable departure of James McArthur over the coming days. Once again Latics are playing the role of a club selling off quality. When thinking of James McArthur the words “automatic choice” come […]