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 […]
Moses Odubajo has signed a new one-year deal with League One club Leyton Orient The 18-year-old winger has made five appearances in all competitions for the O’s last season, the eighteen year old scored his first senior goal in a 2-1 home win against Rochdale on […]
Football programmes and in particular to “this northern soul” readers Latic’s match day programme, do you still purchase a copy every game you attend? At £3 of your hard earned pennies what do you exactly get? Quality print and photographs abound along with all the information you really need, WAFC […]
Don’t worry, it’s not us has-beens and still wannabes from “this northern soul.” Thankfully for the reputation of the FA Cup we are not forming a team as per Wigan Robin Park or FC United. The New Saints chairman Mike Harris reckons his Welsh club should be allowed to enter the oldest cup […]
Well due to our lofty status we forsake the first round of the League Cup which has now been re-branded “The Capital One Cup” Highlight of the draw must be the match between new to the football league Fleetwood Town versus ex Champions of Europe Nottingham Forest. It is all set to kick-off week commencing […]
Thames Iron Works FC was formed by employees of this famous shipbuilding company in 1895 and entered the FA Cup in their initial season at Chatham and the London League in their second. The committee wanted to introduce professional players, so T.I.W.F.C. was wound up in June 1900 and relaunched a month later as West […]