Can I say pleasant things about someone who has just slung his hook for a whopping pay rise? I suppose it all depends really. We’ll have to go down the whole rigmarole of arguing over whether the money he was after effectively priced him out of getting a new contract at Wigan Athletic, or whether […]
Next up is a player familiar to all, a rising star who has just completed his third season at the DW Stadium still at the tender age of 21. He is the fourth player of the current squad to be nominated in the Top 50. James was something of a child prodigy having made his […]
Time for another entry into our Wigan Athletic Hall of Fame and the illustrious names of the past keep on coming. In the case of Mickey Worswick, I can offer very little in my role as editor and co-ordinator of the TNS Top 50 as Mickey was wearing the blue and white stripes before I […]
Phew! Now we’ve got that controversial 45th entry out of the way, let’s return to sturdier ground as there is no doubt that our next player has all the credentials to be included in the Wigan Athletic Top 50 List. Noel Ward was there at the beginning of our Football League life, running out at […]
This interview first appeared in Issue 44 of The Mudhutter fanzine. There are still copies left through reputable retailers and (weather permitting) less reputable fanzine sellers around the ground this Saturday. Failing that you can get your copy online at http://www.mudhutsmedia.co.uk/emods/easyshop/easyshop.php?prod.72 We always get a bit nervous when we’re selling the Mudhutter and someone in a […]
Anyone for a pantomime villain? Here we had a player who had amazing, natural ability but was often guilty of that most heinous of crimes to a Wigan Athletic crowd, the crime of not quite giving 100% all the time. Watching back my old videos, my first recollection of Haworth was of a rangy youngster […]
You mean that Gary Caldwell? Well yes of course we do. It’s fair to say that Gary didn’t exactly endear himself to the Latics faithful when he first arrived at the club in January 2010. He struggled to adjust in an awful Latics defence playing against some of the top teams in the country having […]
Today’s entry in our TNS Hall of Fame is another member of the current squad and the first of five goalkeepers to make the Top 50 list. Mike Pollitt is an interesting selection given that he has only made just over a handful of league appearances in the six years since our first season in […]
We’re up and running and time with another name in our Top 50 Latics players rundown. The problem is with things like this is that older fans pour scorn on the focus that is put on today’s Premier League prima donnas who have barely played 50 games yet younger fans don’t want to read about […]
There has been much debate following the Euro’s success of Spain, a lot of it prompted by our own manager Roberto Martinez as to the English mentality of dismissing young footballers as “not being big enough” to play the game at the top level and Spain’s sweeping dismissal of this philosophy.