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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 […]
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 […]
The TNS archive
Critical two week blog day 12
7am Wake up with a sinking feeling in my stomach, yes it wasn’t a nightmare we really have been relegated after 8 seasons of ups and downs the fat lady finally sang and we will be supporting a club plying its trade in the Championship next season. Receive a myriad of texts from fellow fans […]
Life’s a beach
Brighton HA 2 – 4 Wigan Athletic Tuesday 15th March 2005 From one extreme to the other – Saturday’s game might have been as dull as a night spent discussing peas with John Major but the same can’t be said of this game. On a night that the fixture computer created for masochists and 92 […]
Back to it
It’s been a welcome respite from the stress and strain of the league over the last couple of weeks. Normally I would be perplexed at the thought of an international break interrupting our season but if a break could come at the right time I think this was it. Come Saturday afternoon I’ll be desperate […]
Come in number 8
1st November 2003, a sunny Saturday lunchtime, in the posh seats and a full day and night’s drinking ahead. It was one of those “second stag dos”, you know the sort of thing organised for those cheapskates and not quite friends who didn’t go away with you. A select few at the game, making our […]