We’re back with another Sixy Talk ahead of the weekend trip to Loftus Road, in That London. The format remains the same, 5 questions about Latics’ opponents Queens Park Rangers and then some insider info on where to get a decent pre-match pie. I’ve done another Paxman impression and asked the difficult questions to Clive […]
Considering the magnitude of tonight’s game and the history between us and tonight’s FA Cup opponents, we couldn’t let the opportunity pass to do a Sixy Talk ! …so following her somewhat controversial appearance the other week on the world’s second best podcast*, we caught up with Manchester City supporter Nic and asked her the obvious […]
AFC Bournemouth in the FA Cup 3rd Round brings back the memories, eh? Back then it was AFC Bournemouth who were the League One outfit, travelling up to Wigan hoping to pull off a shock against a Latics side navigating their 8th consecutive Premier League season. It took a 70th minute equaliser – Spanish heartthrob […]
As you’ve probably gathered from listening to The Podcast™ we like to think we know our stuff, and we also like to tell you what we think… We also sometimes write it down and put it in the fanzine… anyway, here’s a few of my favourite albums of the year. I’d have done a collaborative […]
“IT’S CHRIIIISSSSTTTMAASSSS!!!” screams Noddington P Holder at the start of Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody… …so The Pie At Night would like to take this opportunity to wish all our readers and listeners all the best for the festive season. And as we like to think we know our audience well enough, we’re pretty certain some […]
Annus horribilis is a Latin phrase, meaning “horrible year”, brought into prominence 25 years ago when Liz Windsor used it in a speech. 1992 was a year where the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas had been constantly in the press with one relationship scandal after another and culminated with a fire destroying parts of Windsor Castle. Then John Major […]
The Chimp Paradox is a 2012 book by acclaimed sports psychiatrist, Professor Steve Peters. Peters theorises that we all have an inner Chimp that can be a bit of a pain in the arse – it’s the bit of the brain which runs on emotions and gut instinct, makes snap judgements and thinks in black and white. The […]
Well what started as me trying to fill a page in the latest Mudhutter by arsing about on photoshop the day after going to see the new Trainspotting T2 film, has ended up snowballing into becoming the fanzine cover and then plenty of people deciding to part with some of their hard earned for a […]
It’s hard to believe that it’s 20 (TWENTY) years since we pipped Fulham to the ‘old’ Football League Third Division title, by virtue of Graeme Jones’s record 31 league goals in a season. (Whatever happened to him?) [In most seasons we would have been runners-up, but a temporary rule change which saw goals scored take precedence over […]
Following on from last night’s Part 1 , we bring you Part 2 of our EXCLUSIVE look at our new signings. Mikael Mandron Mikael Mandron was quite literally working as a waitress in a cocktail bar – “Southampton’s premier transvestite experience” Cock/Tailz, when he was plucked from the obscurity of the National League (Is that the […]