Bah! Curse you, fixture computer, putting two of the best aways of the season on consecutive Saturdays! Having said that, City appear to have no longer read the script. It used to be a good bevy in Manchester, take the scenic route through the Shameless estate and spend the game ridiculing the glory hunting big […]
Three games in and the window has now SLAMMED shut (or would have if I’d been less lazy and finished this article three weeks ago) so it’s the perfect time to do a sort of a season preview. Isn’t it? Well maybe not, but the beginning of September is increasingly replacing the beginning of August […]
“Dad, why have they all got yellow shirts on” Of course the easy answer is that’s the colour of the Norwich shirt. But I don’t think that’s what Master Perm jnr was getting at when, on the opening day of the season, he pointed at the hordes in the North Stand, his question could have […]
The visit to Everton this weekend gives TNS the opportunity to heap praise on one of Latics’ greatest ever servants, Kevin Langley. Kevin, who was born in St Helens on 24th May 1964, was a painter and decorator when he wrote to the club in the summer of 1980 enquiring about the possibility of a […]
CRYSTAL PALACE 2 -1 WIGAN ATHLETIC Wigan Athletic slipped out of the Carling Cup last night at the hands of Crystal Palace who deservedly won the game accoring to match reports. I personally didn’t attend the game and I’m glad that I did not make the effort, unlike a hardy hundred or so Latics die […]
Wigan Athletic FC have announced that the club is TOTALLY debt free. This has occured as an eight month long plan by chairman Dave Whelan came to fruition today. He has solvently wound up Whelco Holdings and replaced it with two seperate companies to run his hotel and football businesses seperately. This restructuring means that […]
Wigan Athletic will lock horns with Crystal Palace for only the third time in the club’s history tomorrow night. Roberto Martinez will take a much changed side to Selhurst Park, but he will be expecting his fringe players to put in a good display, given the fact that he may be prepared to ring the […]
Four games into the Premier League season and already Manchester looks like being the pre-eminent town for challenging for the Premier League title with Chelsea, Arsenal et al being a very distant third, fourth etc. City with their obvious financial backing seem to treat the Premier League as their own personal fantasy football game buying […]
Wigan made the short trip down the East Lancs road and over the Mancunian way to take on our near neighbours whose annual wage bill could rival the annual gross domestic product of many small countries. Martinez sprang a surprise leaving the artistic Gomez on the bench replacing him with the more combative McArthur. Of […]
Some people say that you get all you deserve if you wear a yellow and black chequed away kit. And so it was that your eager eyed correspondent watching Kick Off that evening saw city spank ten past a hapless Huddersfield. They got one back I think – although anyone implying that it would be […]