Wigan Athletic striker Nouah Dicko has returned to Championship outfit Blackpool on a season long loan, club officials have revealed today. Dicko, who has spent the pre season as a regular starter for Latics during training camps in Sweden and Austria, spent the latter part of last season on loan at Bloomfield Road, scoring 4 […]
So the next time some football pundit tells you a club is suffering from “2nd Season Syndrome”, shout back at the TV, “Bollocks”, it is actually a myth, it doesn’t really exist. See we recently got into a discussion on the TNS forum with diab0 from the Royal Rendezvous site about 2nd Season Syndrome, after […]
So for an 8th time we return back to start another top flight football season, yes & another one in the exclusive Barclay’s Premier League. But who would have thought it? If you remember back in late January, Wigan returned back from White Hart Lane, bottom of the Premier League, played 23, won 3, drawn […]
The visit of Chelsea for the opening game of the season on Sunday afternoon gives TNS the opportunity to profile a man who managed both clubs, Ron Suart. Ron was born in Barrow-in-Furness on 16th November 1920. He became a rock steady full back and played all of his football in the North of England. […]
Supporters of Wigan Athletic have come out on top of the ‘RightmoveBlog’ survey of which team is followed by the most local fans and unsurprisingly Latics are top. Again, unsurprisinhgly the bottom three places are occupied by Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea! Rather than TNS taking unwarranted credit for this little project I forward you […]
Wigan Athletic have been handed an away tie against two time European champions Nottingham Forest in the second round of the League Cup. Latics will be locking horns against a team that they have never beaten when they travel to West Bridgford in a bid to reach the following round of a competition in which […]
Sky Sports News is reporting the fact that Wigan Athletic have completed the signing of Levante striker Arouna Kone. It is believed he has signed a three year deal at the club with Latics paying three and a half million euros for his services. Kone, who only signed for Levante from Sevilla a month ago, […]
With the season less than a week away I have decided that to make it more interesting here at TNS that we should run a competition.The idea is for everybody, each week, to predict the score of the upcoming game. The person who gets most right by the end of the season will win the […]
Club officials at Chelsea have received news from the Premier League top brass that Branislav Ivanović will not be disallowed from playing for the Pensioners against Wigan Athletic on Sunday afternoon. Following the Serbian hackers sending off yesterday in the Community Sheild Final the top brass have decided that the game does not count with regards to […]
Wigan Athletic are delighted to announce the signing of Japanese international Ryo Miyaichi on a season-long loan deal from Arsenal. The 19 year-old becomes Roberto Martinez’s third recruit of the summer, following in the footsteps of Fraser Fyvie and Ivan Ramis, and is the first Japanese player the Club has ever had. Miyaichi spent the […]