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 […]
As per usual a New Year brings along hope and expectation along with the traditional Honours List, However in this modern era which we all reside this time honoured tradition is not as prestigious as it was once with a lot of celebs getting medals and sword placed about […]
And so as we reach the pinnacle of the Wigan sporting civil war as Wigan’s three favourite football teams come head to head in the space of six days. These really are the games I cannot stand above any other and they are the games we, as Wigan Athletic fans dreamt of watching many years […]