Many of you will have read a piece I put on TNS last week, regarding an email I sent to Mick Dennis, a journalist for the Daily Express concerning disparaging remarks about Wigan Athletic. If you haven’t read it, you can do so here http://www.thisnorthernsoul.co.uk/articles/articles/1997-the-national-media-continue-their-vendetta-against-wigan-athletic As you’ll see, I promised to print any response I […]
So for the 2nd match on the spin Wigan failed to hold on to 3 points & come away with a draw! Well actually it’s their 3rd match they’ve gone 1-0 up but we’ll not mention the 2nd half capitulation against Sunderland. With a number of key draws Saturday it’s almost Francis Rossi with how […]
Our near neighbours Chorley have won promotion to the Premier Division of the Northern Premier League after a 2-0 win against AFC Fylde at Victory Park.
Some of you may have been unfortunate enough to pick up the Daily Express recently and picked up the following nugget from Norwich fan and professional journalist Mick Dennis: “As Wigan scrapped for their Premier League lives against Everton, almost a third of their small ground was empty. It has not been full all […]
Brian Tiler – Aston Villa and Latics Brian was born in Rotherham on 15th March 1943 and signed professional forms for his home town club in the summer of 1962. He spent four season’s at Millmoor, making 213 appearances for the Millers, scoring 27 goals before a move to Aston Villa in the summer of […]
The 2012 Olympics are a coming, we can’t ignore it, well you can try but the hype has started and it’ll get worse as it gets nearer. Besides the ladies beach volleyball on Horse Guards Parade, a football tournament is being held which might or might not be of passing interest. The 4 home nations […]
If I’m honest, I didn’t believe it when Bobby told us that Ben Watson still had a future at Wigan Athletic. I was sat opposite him, practically looking him in the eye and when he said (and I paraphrase) “it’s up to Ben, he needs to step up to the plate and start looking for […]
So looking @ the table this morning after 2 points dropped & Blackburn getting points against Bolton, we have something like this: 15 Blackburn 35 -14 3816 Birmingham 34 -17 3817 Blackpool 35 -22 35 18 Wigan 35 -23 3519 Wolves 34 -23 3320 West Ham 34 -22 32 Not the best of reading with […]
Now is not the time for recrimination nor retribution. We will save that for another day. Now is a time for realising what you have got, finding what it is you want to fight for and standing up for it. Those of you that will wear the shirt on Saturday should remember, it is only […]
It doesn’t seem like a week since I last did one of these (it’s not), but with literally one person pestering me about what was going to be in this week’s perfect hat-trick I’ve decided to keep to something like a deadline and get the Everton one out ahead of the game. Ahead of Saturday […]