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In need of a bounce

Not been a great week has it? Wigan Athletic the only side without a new manager bounce. Following the disappointing defeat to them men, we followed it up with the dullest 90 minutes of football I’ve ever witnessed in the East London sunshine. We marginally improved on another long trip to face Gary Caldwell’s Exeter […]

Back to it

A lot has changed since that Cambridge match back at the start of the month, a new manager through the door and on the face of it a renewed sense of optimism. The international break will have done the squad a world of good, especially as the number travelling away was limited compared to earlier […]

Other Stuff

A pathetic shopping spree

If you move in certain Twitter circles then you’ll have come across The Pathetic Casuals.  Once they were young lads and lasses, touring the country in following the team they love, dressed up the nines and making sure they were seen and heard. Now, as age, parenthood, mortgages and world weariness catches up with them, […]

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 […]

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

Them and us – Shaun Maloney (Wigan Athletic and Scotland)

Shaun, who was born in Miri Sarawak, Malaysia on 24th January 1983, was signed from Celtic for a fee of £850,000 on 31st August 2011.  His first game for the Blues was on 13th September 2011, a second round Carling Cup game against Crystal Place at Selhurst Park in which the Blues were victims of a […]

Destiny is almost in our hands….

This season for as long as I can remember we’ve been told our place or have been staring up at 17 or more teams. But for once, we can ‘just about’ have that destiny in our own hands!  Wolves below us have a game in hand & before they play catch up against Stoke, all […]

Wigan Athletic – Whelan confirms Ramis capture?

ESPN are reporting the fact that Wigan Athletic have completed the signing of Ivan Ramis from RCD Mallorca.  The Wigan Athletic chairman is quoted by ESPN sources as saying, “He (Ramis) has passed his medical and it (the deal)  is being concluded. It’s down to the influence of Roberto (Martinez) because the player doesn’t speak […]