You’ll have to excuse me if my spelling and punctuation isn’t up to scratch at the minute. It’s because I still have my hands over my eyes as I can’t bear to look at our defence. I suppose we should give them a little bit of a pat on the back for keeping the defeats […]
And so to Villa Park, where the Roberto Martinez adventure began, where he nearly ended up plying his trade this summer and where our bargain basket Messi now resides. It’s a fixture that has been notoriously kind to Latics, not least in that first game for Bobby when the sun shone and we all thought […]
We’ve had a veritable splurge of activity over on our Spreadshirt shop with three new t-shirt designs being released yesterday. This batch take a break from the nostalgia of the last Bobby Campbell shirt and bring us into the world of eyetests, social media and Kirk Douglas.
The visit of Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday gives TNS the opportunity to remember a player whose stay in Wigan was rather brief, but also rather memorable. He played for the club at what is to date the height of their success and he is one of few former players who was never involved in a […]
The visit to Everton this weekend gives TNS the opportunity to heap praise on one of Latics’ greatest ever servants, Kevin Langley. Kevin, who was born in St Helens on 24th May 1964, was a painter and decorator when he wrote to the club in the summer of 1980 enquiring about the possibility of a […]
Four games into the Premier League season and already Manchester looks like being the pre-eminent town for challenging for the Premier League title with Chelsea, Arsenal et al being a very distant third, fourth etc. City with their obvious financial backing seem to treat the Premier League as their own personal fantasy football game buying […]
The subject of this week’s missive is arguably one of the greatest Manchester City servants, who finished his playing career at Springfield Park, Joe Hayes. Joe was an inspirational inside forward who used to score goals for fun. He was born in Kearsley on 20th January 1936 and like most young men of the time […]
In my (I think I can use the word now) long association with Wigan Athletic there have been a couple of, in not constant then at least regular features. Strikers who don’t score as many goals as we want them to and players on their way down who either aren’t as arsed or just aren’t […]
Well, it’s back. The regular feature that you didn’t know you’d missed and it’s a been a bit difficult what with very little going on, well at least very little on the Latics side of the fence. Today’s opponents have been a bit busier so with ne’er a do let’s get straight on with it.
Gino Padula was born on 11th July 1976 in Argentina. He is a defender who usually operated on the left and he started his career with his local outfit River Plate in 1996 before moving on to Hurucan the following year. Twelve months later he played for his first European club, Xerez in Spain. Gino, […]