Cairo Santos a promising “soccer” player, aged 15 he left his home in San Paulo as a foreign exchange student to stay at St. Joseph’s Academy in St Augustine in Florida for one year to learn English whilst continuing playing the eleven side game. One day he strolled onto the grid iron field with his mates and said […]
Well unbeaten isn’t strictly true, they went out of the FA Cup in the replay on penalties to Radcliffe Borough so really that doesn’t count in the grand scheme of things. “The Colls” are a joy to watch, especially at home on their massively sloping pitch, goals are a plenty especially in the oppositions net, […]
This is nothing new, appeals like this have been done before but if you are clearing out the drawers, shelves, wardrobes etc, etc & you come across those football/sport shirts you no longer want how about sending them to a most deserving cause? The FSF (Football Supporters Federation) have teamed up with their Euro counterparts The […]
I know that’s some title, but it comes from waking up to news that the FA have gone in to typical PR Spin & shot themselves in the foot AGAIN. How, well reading the BBC’s article this morning: On first glance, you’ll see the FA spinning with the fact they know it’ll be yet another […]
Well with Halloween and Guy Fawkes fast approaching the festive feast will also soon be upon us as well. The fans of FC Santa Claus who were founded just a short while ago in 1993 following the amalgamation of the Rovaniemen Reipas and Rovaniemen Lappi football clubs have had an early present this season. Over […]
Bill Nicholson once said “ We must always consider our supporters for, without them there would be no professional football. Its better to have more fans watching football the way they liked it played than have a few watching football the way we’d like it played.” If by some remote chance someone in authority in […]
We all know about the bidding for Russia & Qatar, the rumours, the alleged payouts, coupled with the shadowy conscience of the suits in FIFA HQ. All was supposed to be brought to the public domain by the lawyer Michael Garcia, his brief was to nterview as many witnesses as possible, turns out it is […]
FA Cup Winners 2013, The Premiership for eight seasons but just a few Sky Sports Yearbooks nee Rothmans editions past, Wigan Athletic were proud members of the Northern Premier League in the 1977-78 season. A lot of glory and huge disappointment’s has been seen by the Springfield Park and latterly the JJB/DW faithful, that is […]
Unless you lived under a rock for the last 10 years, you’ll know that Wigan Athletic is renowned for empty seats! It’s a stigma we’ve had to live with for years, first brought to the attention of the media, when Wigan had the audacity to have empty seats in the Premier League in 2006! Sacrilege […]
The England Manager has called up Emile Heskey, after such a terrible time for England and their torrid run of recent results. Yes, we too at the TNS offices in Wigan are surprised, though not truly shocked with Emile’s recent run of form in the Wigan team. Now this Manager is not Roy Hodgson who’s […]