This Northern Soul asked six of our best to Greg from Huddersfield Town website and podcast Thrice Champions in advance of our game there tonight. Your website pays tribute to an almost unheard of era where a team from a medium sized town actually won the title of the top division of English football for […]
William Kvist is a highly experienced defensive midfield player who Latics have signed on a one year contract following his release from VfB Stuttgart. The 6 foot tall Dane is 29 years old and appears to be the right sort of player to play in front of the Latics defence. Kvist made 8 appearances on […]
We’re a creative lot us Wiganers and news has come to TNS of a new book being launched by Andrew Vaughan. Vaughanie is generally considered one of the Godfathers of independent writing in Wigan and also created Wigan Athletic’s first ever fanzine, the Cockney Latic in the late Eighties. His brilliant new book is available […]
Wigan Athletic fans are buzzing again. Despondency had crept in with the impending departure of that great Latics servant and FA Cup winner, James McArthur. It looked like Rosler was not going to get the extra striker he desperately needed with the Andy Delort situation continuing to be uncertain. Moreover difficulties over dealing with Everton’s […]
Last Monday was an uplifting day for Wigan Athletic supporters. The signings of Adam Forshaw and Andy Delort were confirmed and there was the surprise signing of William Kvist from Stuttgart. But the icing on the cake was surely the capture of Emyr Huws on a permanent contract. Huws is only 20 years old, has […]
We all know about the bidding for Russia & Qatar, the rumours, the alleged payouts, coupled with the shadowy conscience of the suits in FIFA HQ. All was supposed to be brought to the public domain by the lawyer Michael Garcia, his brief was to nterview as many witnesses as possible, turns out it is […]
It was a relief to Wigan Athletic fans when the Forshaw saga was finally resolved and the 22 year old eventually signed on the dotted line. Uwe Rosler regards him as the replacement for Jordi Gomez – a hard act to follow given the Spaniard’s spectacular form last season. Adam Forshaw arrives at Wigan as […]
FA Cup Winners 2013, The Premiership for eight seasons but just a few Sky Sports Yearbooks nee Rothmans editions past, Wigan Athletic were proud members of the Northern Premier League in the 1977-78 season. A lot of glory and huge disappointment’s has been seen by the Springfield Park and latterly the JJB/DW faithful, that is […]
Unless you lived under a rock for the last 10 years, you’ll know that Wigan Athletic is renowned for empty seats! It’s a stigma we’ve had to live with for years, first brought to the attention of the media, when Wigan had the audacity to have empty seats in the Premier League in 2006! Sacrilege […]
The England Manager has called up Emile Heskey, after such a terrible time for England and their torrid run of recent results. Yes, we too at the TNS offices in Wigan are surprised, though not truly shocked with Emile’s recent run of form in the Wigan team. Now this Manager is not Roy Hodgson who’s […]