Club officials at Chelsea have received news from the Premier League top brass that Branislav Ivanović will not be disallowed from playing for the Pensioners against Wigan Athletic on Sunday afternoon. Following the Serbian hackers sending off yesterday in the Community Sheild Final the top brass have decided that the game does not count with regards to […]
Wigan Athletic are delighted to announce the signing of Japanese international Ryo Miyaichi on a season-long loan deal from Arsenal. The 19 year-old becomes Roberto Martinez’s third recruit of the summer, following in the footsteps of Fraser Fyvie and Ivan Ramis, and is the first Japanese player the Club has ever had. Miyaichi spent the […]
A MESSAGE TO ALL MUDHUTTER SUBCRIBERS: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE It’s that time again. We’ve thought long and hard about our future and decided that the old legs will carry us through one more season and we want YOU to come with us by parting with a big chunk of money up front and somehow […]
Roberto Martinez and his charges welcomed Real Mallorcato the DW Stadium for what is Latics’ first and only home game of the pre season this afternoon. Perhaps surprisingly, new signing Ivan Ramis started the game in the centre of defence against his former club whom he left just four days ago. Martinez had his team […]
Morning, well as it’s just a month to go before Wigan kick off their 8th season in the Barclays Premier League. This of course will start against European Champions Chelsea at the DW. Yes, a little Déjà vu! We’ve been there before, back in August 2005, with a certain Hernán Jorge Crespo, 98 minutes, you […]
Wigan Athletic have got their pre season off to a winning start. The team (pictured) is in Sweden for their annual pre season training camp and the whole squad was involved in this game at some point. The match lasted for 35 minutes each half and was won courtesy of a Jordi Gomez penalty in […]
Earlier today, Emmerson Boyce happened to tweet that he had been voted the 48th best Crystal Palace player of all time. Always keen to adapt a good idea here at This Northern Soul, we thought we’d carry out a poll of our own. The idea is simple. Just give us ten of your top Latics players. […]
I’ve always seen comparisons between Roy Hodgson’s Fulham and Steve McClaren’s Middlesbrough so it was no surprise yesterday to see everyone’s favourite Dutchman (behind Clarence Seedorf, of course) popping up in support of Roy’s tactics, claiming that possession means nothing and what you want is to park the bus and play for set pieces (I […]
Thames Iron Works FC was formed by employees of this famous shipbuilding company in 1895 and entered the FA Cup in their initial season at Chatham and the London League in their second. The committee wanted to introduce professional players, so T.I.W.F.C. was wound up in June 1900 and relaunched a month later as West […]
The Saints kicked off in November 1885 when members of St Mary’s Church of England Young Men’s Association formed a club. (They became known as St Mary’s YMA) Rector Canon Albert Basil Orme Wilberforce was the fledglings club first president. During the 1887-88 season the name changed to St Mary’s and it was only in […]