Now this isn’t a rant about “the good old days” and they should always wear black boots, however the mould was broken when ginger head Alan Ball wore white boots whilst at Everton back in the mists of time. (Under 30′s ask yer Grandad) The opening match this season Latics against Reading saw all 22 […]
Non-League Day, the campaign to promote semi-professional and amateur football, returns for a fifth consecutive season on Saturday 6th September 2014. The event, which regularly features on SKY Sports, Soccer AM, 5live and The Non-League Football Show, always coincides with a break in the Premier League and Championship calendar, giving a wide range of fans […]
Well after the final which Bury won 4-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw, it has been a great way to prepare for the forthcoming (hopefully promotion) season, I have a personal hatred of friendly matches and refuse to watch them, even my beloved Latics, apathy by the players is not what I expect from a game of football. […]
Skinner & Baddiel sang the popular ditty (at the time) Footballs Coming Home over THIRTY years ago. So why hasn’t it? the dust has settled on another underwhelming performance at a major tournament for England who are now turning into a Scotlandesque type of outfit. I wonder how long it’ll be before we start getting […]
The Vanaram Conference (Div5) has decreed a sensible step to allow 3G pitches to be used in all three of it’s divisions from next season. This decision is hot on the heels that in March that 3G pitches will be allowed in all rounds of the FA Cup from the start of the 2014-15 season. It […]
Thursday 31st July 2014 Ipswich Town will be the hub to celebrate the life & times of Sir Bobby Robson who died five years ago, in association with the English FA, the ‘Love football, Play football’ message will be reinforced through an FA Charter Standard clubs tournament, FA Skills session and coaching workshop in the shadow of […]
Well it has been some time! For me it’s been over 12 months since I’ve been in the TNS Offices here in Wigan, in fact my last work was a Barnsley Match article, oh how we lived! There are some new faces at new desks that we’ve been able to fit in to the office. […]
A SOUTH Tyneside football fan behind a fundraising appeal set up in memory of two Newcastle United fans killed in the MH17 airline disaster says he is overwhelmed it has topped the £20,000 mark. Lifelong Magpies fan John Alder, 63, and Liam Sweeney, 28, were among the 298 people killed when their plane was reportedly […]
Just five of the World Cup 2014 stadiums will be use for the forthcoming football tournemant at the Olympics in two years time. Rio De Janeiro, along with Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Salvador and San Paulo will host the mens competition which starts on August 4th 2016 with the Final taking place on August 19th. The only […]
As Argentina and Germany prepare to play the final of the world’s greatest game in front of a 78,838 capacity crowd at the iconic Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, commonly known as “the Maracanã the first qualifying match for this tournament was played way back in June 2011. The first match on the road to Brazil was Belize against Montserrat and with just […]