It’s that time of year when geeks like me get excited and football fans become finance experts with the release of Wigan Athletic’s latest set of annual accounts. The good news is that the key stat of Wages to Turnover has reduced from 91% to 79%. This is due to increase in revenue from the […]
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 […]
And so it begins. Or maybe not, it’s been a while since I wrote anything and longer still since I wrote about Latics, but the time has come for me to get back on the wagon, bite the bullet and… well… just grab a bit of my time back. As I type, I still don’t […]
The above chant echoed round the ground in the closing minutes of yesterday’s game but this wasn’t theChelseafans celebrating victory in the West London F.A. Cup game but the Chorley fans in their home game against Stafford Rangers. With a fallow Saturday due to Wigan’s disrespectful valuing of the F.A.Cup which resulted in the embarrassing […]
This Northern Soul would like to propose a Wigan Athletic “Hall of Fame” Now many will scoff at this idea. Wigan Athletic with famous players ? What a joke! Well you only need to peruse the excellent A-Z category here at TNS to realise your mistake. (Humble pie freely available) Now it is an emotional issue […]
Wigan Athletic are sending a representative side to Bangor this weekend to play in a friendly as Welsh Premier League side Bangor City proudly celebrate the opening of their brand new stadium. The game at the Nantporth Stadium, will go ahead at 2.30pm and Bangor chairman, Dilwyn Jones, is understandably thrilled, he told BBC North West […]
Yesterday afternoon results elsewhere conspired to ensure that Roberto Martinez’s under achievers were in the lowest possible league position available.
Bear with me on this but ….. if and I know it is a big if ….. by some means and it is not impossible, improbable yes but not utterly & totally beyond achievable if our club Wigan Athletic actually qualified for the Champions League.
Final preparations have now been made for the long awaited sponsored walk that is to be undertaken to aid Emma Hoolin and her family. On Saturday February 11th 2012, Wigan Athletic travel the short distance to Horwich to face Premier League rivals and near neighbours Bolton Wanderers. On the morning of the 11th Feb, prior […]