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 […]
Them and us – David Unsworth (Latics and Everton) As Wigan Athletic prepare for their crucial clash against Everton at the DW Stadium on Saturday, TNS takes a look at the career of a man who served both clubs during an illustrious career. Current Preston North End first team coach David Unsworth was born in […]
If I’m honest, this selection was picked as a pre-Sunderland trio, but then my laptop blew up and… well it didn’t happen. I’ve got back online (sort of) today and reflecting back all three songs still work, albeit in different ways than they would have done on Friday. So, to save me thinking too hard […]
And in my case it’s probably a good thing because when I was nineteen we were getting tonked by the likes of Port Vale and Plymouth not Chelsea and Blackpool. I travelled to Bournemouth in a game where we’d already been relegated, spent 12 hours driving 500 miles in a battered old Toyota Corolla while […]
As a half hearted attempt to celebrate our national saints day I racked my little grey cells to come up with all the George’s who have played for Latics in the league.