Look I’ve already been told off for using this column to gloat once so I won’t. Let’s just say I’ve taken a lot of stick over my support of one of our players and heard a lot, lot worse said about him at the games over the past couple of years and it’s always nice […]
This is the article that I wasn’t going to write. I’d picked up my keyboard yesterday to tell the world how much I objected to our ground being used as the backdrop to Liverpool’s show of collective injustice, only to decide that I probably wasn’t good enough to pull off the article that I had […]
As I took my position in the Springfield Stand prior to the game against Liverpool last night, I could not believe my eyes. There right in front of me were the entire Liverpool team blatantly supporting one of their own players who has been found guilty by the FA of hurling at least one racist […]
The short trip to Salford on Boxing Day is perhaps time for this particular column to be slightly different, in that the person involved did not actually play for either Latics or Manchester United! Although he never kicked a ball in anger on the field of play, he almost certainly did on the training grounds […]
A wonderful penalty save secured Wigan a vital point in their battle against relegation which their committed team performance thoroughly deserved. Unsurprisingly Roberto Martinez opted to retain the same line up which performed so well against Chelseaat the weekend the only change to the 18 being Lopez replacing Gohuri on the bench. Liverpool started the […]
Today we go back into the mists of time to introduce a player who had a bit part to play for Wednesday evenings visitors but who was a major influence in the success of Wigan Athletic as a fledgling non league team way back in 1934/35. Jack ‘Nipper’ Roberts was born in Blundellsands, Liverpool on […]
A late goal from never say die Wigan secured another point in the battle against relegation, a result which they thoroughly deserved and had the referee spotted a blatant handball by Ivanovic in the penalty area the result could have been even better. Roberto Martinez opted to retain the same starting line up that secured […]
Tis the season to be jolly and clearly the FA were having a laugh when they served up Wigan Athletic’s Christmas fixture list. Nevertheless, we sometimes need to take a step back and realise what it means for a club like ours to be facing three of the biggest clubs in the world. So let’s […]
LATICS PLAYERS SPREAD SOME CHRISTMAS CHEER The whole of the Wigan Athletic squad has been out and about in Wigan helping to give something back to their community as the season of goodwill is upon us. Armed with Christmas presents that the players had paid for themselves, they visited Willow Grove and Hope Schools and […]
The visit of Chelsea to the DW Stadium on Saturday evening gives TNS the opportunity to look back at the career of a Wigan Athletic and Chelsea legend. Step forward, Mario Melchiot. Mario was born in Amsterdam on 4th November 1976 and started his career as a youngster with Ajax. He had three eventful seasons […]