Wigan Athletic’s loanee left back, Patrick Van Aanholt has returned to his parent club, Chelsea. Pat, who had previously featured in the Champions League for the Pensioners, was signed on a season long loan from Chelsea on 31st August 2011. Latics became his fourth club as a loanee player, Coventry City, Newcastle United and Leicester City […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tomorrow’s sell out FA Cup game against Swindon Town at the County Ground gives TNS the opportunity to look back on the career of Gareth Whalley. Gareth was born in Manchester on 19th December 1973. He played mostly as a holding midfielder and started his career at Crewe Alexandra, for whom he signed under the […]
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
Wigan’s pitiful run of only one home win this season from ten matches played continued at a windswept DW Stadium leaving Roberto Martinez and his team with a massive task if they are to secure Premier League football for another season. Martinezalready robbed of his captain Caldwell through suspension surprised the fans by opting to […]
Its half term at the Wigan Athletic Premier Academy and so its time to review the progress so far. Headmaster Roberto Martinez has drastically revamped the curriculum with several new boys coming into the school and this coincided with several new lessons. The term started off well with the pupils performing well in lessons both […]
Some of you may know Dave Hodgson, some of you may not, some of you may have got to know him over the past 12-18 months or so. If you’ve got to know him through the internet, then you’re probably a user of the social networking site, Twitter. Some of you may use it, some […]