Singing in the valleys for Welsh football now, Cardiff City will renew old rivalries with Swansea City in The Premiergreed League next season. While a week before Latics visit Wembley again, Sunday 5th May the stadium will host the play-off final between Newport and Wrexham, the […]
Empty seats. They’re the hottest topic in the world of football right now, and for once Latics are coming out on the good side of the equation. Mainly because it’s not any empty seat that we’re talking about, it’s 900 of them in a particular corner of North London, with an alleged combined value of […]
The appetizer before the glorious victory over Big Sams © outfit was the preverbal “game of two halves” First half The Robins played with the wind on their backs and raced into a well-deserved 2-0 lead before the break. They played controlled football and bossed their opponents from down the East Lancs and at the […]
They are an item of a bygone era but football pennants use to be all the rage. Small ones for the rear view mirror in the car and the larger versions adorned bedrooms, hallways and some made it in the living rooms. It was always a tradition to exchange them before International matches, a practice […]
Look, let me start with a confession. I wasn’t always this highly presentable, respectable father and fine upstanding family man I am today. I used to travel all over the country watching Wigan Athletic getting drunk and hanging about with some chaps who might have occasionally indulged in some naughty behaviour. Not that I was […]
Many, many Wigan Athletic supporters have fond memories of the non-league scene, plus quite a few do visit the local clubs on a regular basis when time, work and money doesn’t allow for Premier League viewing. The following is an unashamed copy & paste from Blue Squares website promoting the upcoming non-league day up here in […]
A few of the “northern soul” team venture to other grounds especially on the rising star that is non-league day. As the FSF so eloquently puts it ….. NLD is a celebration of football outside of the 92 league sides and gives fans of those clubs the opportunity to experience football at a level they […]
So the next time some football pundit tells you a club is suffering from “2nd Season Syndrome”, shout back at the TV, “Bollocks”, it is actually a myth, it doesn’t really exist. See we recently got into a discussion on the TNS forum with diab0 from the Royal Rendezvous site about 2nd Season Syndrome, after […]
Supporters of Wigan Athletic have come out on top of the ‘RightmoveBlog’ survey of which team is followed by the most local fans and unsurprisingly Latics are top. Again, unsurprisinhgly the bottom three places are occupied by Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea! Rather than TNS taking unwarranted credit for this little project I forward you […]
It is housed in the Urbis building at Cathedral Gardens close to the station and even better close to the pubs that are in the shadow of the Cathedral. It will once again be free to wander around the exhibits of the world’s greatest game and if the […]