Fulham took all three points from this relegation battle six pointer, a result which all but the most one eyed Cottager will agree that they didn’t deserve as Wigan peppered toe Fulham goal without success and Fulham scored two goals from three attempts, both due to Wigan mistakes. Wigan manager Roberto Martinez opted to keep […]
Football Manager 2012 (FM) is up and running and already with only the pre season completed I am feeling the pressure. FM is an amazingly realistic game and there are a few things you notice straight away. The first was that FM12 lists Kirkland as out injured with his back, this is before his […]
Good performances eventually yield good results, that’s the theory anyway. This was very much the point Roberto Martinez was making at the end of last season and referred to the draws against Villa, Spurs and Everton in the latter months of the season.
Many words have been scribed about our plight and the fractious fallibility in some eyes that our manager in situ is not the guy for the job. Fair enough, we are all entitled to our valued opinion but do you not think that we are […]
Tie of the round for me is Wrexham v York City, first against third in the Conference, however the Budwiser FATV match is the North East derby between Gateshead who are sixth in the Conference and a team […]
Latics forthcoming game in early 2012 @ The DW against Manchester City will now be played on Monday 16th January 2012 (originally Saturday 14th) at 8.00pm, due to being selected for TV coverage by the great god that is Sky Sports. However should […]
Wigan arrived at St James Park seeking to break a losing run of five Premier League games and win their first ever Premier League game away against Newcastle United. Wigan manager Roberto Martinez opted to freshen things up replacing Di Santo, McCarthy and Gohuri with the returning Rodallega and Figueroa and handing a Premier League […]
As you have probably seen, we lent the Geordies a little piece of the TNS brains trust yesterday, so it’s only fair that we get a little piece back, isn’t it? So we dragged in our North East and sneakily Wigan sympathising correspondent @cognoscentinovo shone the DW stadium floodlights in his eyes and threatened to […]
Barcelona crossed with the Chuckle Brothers Every now and again, here at TNS we get asked to answer a few questions by the team we are about to play. On this occasion, Newcastle fanzine True Faith got in touch with the Mudhutter editor Jimmy to ask his opinion about this Saturday’s fixture. From Northern Soul […]
Well would you? On reflection it seems a silly question, we all love football or we wouldn’t be looking at football website and who wouldn’t on the face of it like to get very well paid for training and managing a bunch of footballers. Sounds simple doesn’t it ? But look at the other side […]