The 2012 Community Shield on Sunday August 12th will be held at Villa Park because Wembley is being used for the Olympic Football Final the day before. FA Cup & European Champions League winners Chelsea will play The Champions of last season Manchester City.
Okay we know it may not be the best timing, what with all the speculation on Roberto Martinez. But back in April TNS started some work with Michael Cox @ Zonal Marking, to look at how Robert Martinez had developed and shaped the Wigan Athletic 3-4-3 formation. Michael has come up with a fantastic article […]
Well Roy has done it, he’s named his England squad for the European Championship in Poland & Ukraine. He’s gone as expected for 23 blokes from around the Premier League! So are these are the ones who’ll march into Poland & Ukraine to win the European Championship? Well that’s what Roy hopes! We do too, […]
Summer, to your typical football fan it means dull weekends & trying to avoid DIY, with excuses like: “It’s raining Love”, “The Back’s giving me Jip” & my favourite “Shall we go the Pub for a long Lunch?” You’ll also know when the year ends in an odd number, the excuses need to planned well […]
The Football Supporters’ Federation is holding it’s annual awards for independent fan’s publication and The Mudhutter has again been nominated. Now we’re not in it for fame or money, we’re shy wall flower types but hey, you never know, maybe like the football club we purport to write about we can spring a surprise for […]
Departure from the DW was near enough 4.00pm as four Eavesway coaches headed to Coventry, earlier in the day a bad accident had occurred on the M6, long delays at junctions 19 & 20 in store. However we eased off the motorway with The Ricoh arena in full view and onto the spacious car parks, […]
Newcastle United, they have done this very quietly and sit in prime position to achieve the goal of a top 4 finish, ironically enough our next opposition. So quiet whilst driving down the M6 Monday night listening to the post match review of Arsenal 1- 2 Wigan, the football pundit on Talk Sport said what […]
We all know it’s well under a hundred days to the Olympics but did you realise that it is under fifty days to Euro 2012 ? No-one seems particular bothered both in the media and especially at the FA as we still don’t have a national team manager, Pyscho is standing in at the moment […]
I can just leave it at that three letter word can’t I? The last week has been the stuff dreams are made of for Latics fans and we are winning friends and respect all the way. We have only been one incompetent linesman away from mustering up a complete clean sweep of the “traditional” Big […]
Just two short years ago to the day near enough, Salvador Cabrina of Paraguay was shot in the head in a bar in Mexico City. A drugs baron called “JJ” was later arrested for attempted murder. At the time Salvador was playing for top Mexican […]