Is it just me (probably/possibly) but the “new” England home shirt looked a tad tacky? I do like the simplistic minimalistic design and I’ve no doubt whatsoever that the material is the latest gizmo sweat absorbent away, piece of material since Noah built the ark but it looks like a cheap copy from […]
With the growth of imports into The DW more & more of Wigan Athletic players jet-off to play for their countries, adopted ones in some cases ! Gary Caldwell will captain the Scottish team away at SRC Bonifika (Koper) Ali Al Habsi Oman v Thailand Antolin Alcaraz Paraguay […]
That’s an easy one isn’t it? It’s the team who has the most fans isn’t it? Well not quite, you see some teams are from big cities and others are from small towns. Some are global names with over a century of top flight history drawing support from across the world magnet-like, others are newer […]
Without prejudice, on Saturday 11th February a football match took place in North West Lancashire, only for it to be marred by the behaviour of a bunch of Eighties throwbacks. We’ve seen these fat middle aged bullies before in the vicinity of Bolton Wanderers, known for their regimented and hierarchical structure, codenames and distinctive bad […]
A few of us across the Wigan Athletic community thought it would be a good idea to set up a page in honour of Dave where Latics fans can make a donation to Cancer Research in Dave’s memory. You can view the page here Dave touched the hearts of many of us as Latics […]
Before you read on, I must beg for forgiveness, as it was written a good nine years ago when I was just a whippersnapper still in my 20’s and I wrote this account of the last time we went to Swindon of which there is a lot which I now slightly cringe at. It’s a […]
It was reported today in the West Country that 13,000 Swindon fans have bought tickets for this Saturday’s FA Cup 3rd Round tie against Wigan Athletic, an increase of more than 70% on their usual home gate and just under 5,000 less than Wigan Athletic get for a Premier League home game. It’s pay on […]
Wigan Athletic blogger Peter Walker from This Northern Soul gives Metro Sport his view on the season so far and discusses his hopes for the January transfer window – PLUS we bring you the biggest news, rumours and speculation of the month. Read more @ the following – http://metro.co.uk/thisnorthernsoul
The Premier League in conjunction with Brown Envelope Productions presents its 2011 pantomime Blunderella (Directed by Sir Alexander Taggart-Ferguson) ….A long time ago in a far off land the young pretenders were putting all in their way to the sword, […]
Totally unconfirmed and unsubstantiated rumours abound that the Premier League is contemplating introducing handicapping to secure the Premier League as the foremost football competition in Europe. The concern appears to surround the balance in games between the big top six clubs and the rest. The aim is contrary to expectation not to level the playing […]