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We’ve been here before
There are away days and there are classic away days and Saturday’s trip over to East Lancashire definitely falls in to the latter. After eighteen months without live football and a nine month period where the club’s very existence was at threat it’s an amazing feeling to be back in grounds again, Saturday was my […]
Would I Lie To You?
In the past there’s always been somewhat of an international hangover with Wigan Athletic and I don’t mean the kind brought on by those naughty Belgian ales (looking at you Neil Myers). No I mean that traditionally following an international break Latics have taken a little while to get back in to the swing of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Fine Young Gary-balls
Ten games to go, and whereas it shouldn’t be about him, it is perhaps a career defining couple of months for Gary Caldwell above all others. His career at this stage will reflect whatever Wigan Athletic achieve this year. If we go up, then it will be the launchpad to bigger things and he will […]
From the EPL to a GB Super League ?
How a Super League from England & Scotland might look, taken from ye olde football annual/magazine from a few years ago. It is as daft now as it was then, however I do like it how Edinburgh & Sheffield are now a combination of their respective clubs and how they merged their kits to suit […]
Oh I say, that’s a big one!
And it’s all thick and shiny as well. I refer of course to the latest issue of the Mudhutter Football Express which is coming out this weekend. Issue 49 is a whopping 52 pages for just two quid in fact. It’s jam packed with loads of great articles on a variety of subjects from music […]
Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic – Dark Side
So we returned back to the TNS Offices after the Festive break, to find Wigan after a glimpse and it was a glimpse, are indeed still as shit as ever. The office mood is one of despondency bordering on anger, we had a surprise visit from the Wolf this week, he spent a morning teaching […]