Ben Watson stepped of the bench and with his first touch scored a penalty to secure a deserved point for Wigan Athletic yesterday at the Britannia Stadium in Stoke. Roberto Martinez opted to make one change from the side so comprehensively and controversially beaten at Old Trafford last week replacing the industrious Sammon with the […]
Okay December was always going to be a killer month, in the end we came out of it with 6 points with unlikely points against Chelsea & Liverpool. As TNS’ Bernard said on November’s Brewery Trip, “why can’t we get points in December?” & well Bernard we did, 6 in all. So to January, another […]
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, […]
Wigan Athletic have this evening confirmed that Conor Sammon’s red card, picked up at Old Trafford for not committing a foul on Michael Carrick has been rescinded. The inept refereeing decision taken by Phil Dowd virtually ensured a Wigan Athletic defeat against Manchester United on Boxing Day, but at least now Conor does not have […]
24th August 2012 The BBC this evening was responding to many viewers complaining about the after match report on their UEFA Super Cup MOTD special. The match was between Barcelona who in May beat Real Madrid to win their 5th Champions League & Manchester United who in May also beat Valencia to win the Europa […]
1….Number of games won at home, a two nil win over QPR in August. 1 is also the number of strikers who have scored this season; Franco Di Santo. 2….Number of away games won this season,West Brom and Sunderland away. Also 2 is the number of red cards this season, Gohuri and Sammon 3…. The number […]
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 […]
Wigan Athletic are to formally ask the FA to rescind the ludicrous red card that Conor Sammon picked up for shielding the ball against Manchester United on Boxing Day. Match referee Phil Dowd, forty yards from the incident, decided that Conor had fouled Michael Carrick as the United star hit the ground as if pole […]
Wigan Athletic midfielder Mohamed Diame is set to play for Senegal in the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations tournament. Diame, who has already represented his country on five occasions will hopefully play his first game for Senegal in Equatorial Guinea, Bata against Zambia on 21st January 2012. The length of his absence from first team […]