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Hedging our bets
As if there wasn’t enough reasons to hate Millwall, they also managed to let me down on my coupon last weekend by winning away at Preston. I have also filed this under my extensive “reasons to hate Preston” list for good measure, why couldn’t they be useless the week before? The thing is, without ever […]
A few words for the record
I was going to let it lie but I feel the need to say my piece. Last night, social media was an angry place. I get it, our record is appalling and whereas I have never been one to scream for a manager’s head, it is beyond any rationale that Paul Cook still has a […]
Other Stuff
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The TNS archive
Coming and Owen
In a bid to eclipse the showmanship of bidding £10 million pounds for Scott Parker it now seems that Dave Whelan has set his sight on one time golden boy and England vice captain, Michael Owen. Now someone, somewhere must be having a laugh. Apparently (at this stage I’ve not seen it for myself) Sky […]
Latics 0-4 Liverpool
“You’re in rubbish form, not won away all season, only scored one goal, a penalty at that. It’s a certainty that you’ll win 4-0.” I’m not a betting man, but based on that text message, sent at 11am on the day of this game, perhaps I should be. Then again it hardly takes a genius […]
Viva Valencia
If I was talking about right sided midfielders from la Liga, you’d have previously been excused for turning your thoughts to the perfectly groomed image of metrosexuality that used to captain the national side. From today, you’ll be thinking about Louis Antonio Valencia who has today signed for Latics on a one year loan deal. […]
Pig Sick
22 men, running around, getting dirty and sweaty, coming into close physical contact, if they’re lucky hugging and kissing before disappearing for a bath/shower together. No it’s not Aunty Gok’s ideal night out, it’s just your average 90 minutes of football. It’s a good way to spread bumps, bruises and verrucas and anywhere where people […]