HEMS, E Hems was a right half who signed amateur forms in the summer of 1925. He failed to make the grade at Springfield Park. HERBERT, William Edward DOB: 1888 DIED: 1928 Other clubs: Walthamstowe Grange, Barnet Aston, Woolwich Arsenal, Glossop, Gravesend United, Stoke City, Bolton Wanderers, Guildford United Honours: Southern League Division Two championship winner […]
Here, due to popular demand, is the first ever COMPLETE LATICS PLAYERS’ A to Z published by any independent fan site. What follows is THE most comprehensive Players A to Z published anywhere to date. Please note that the details given concern the FIRST time the player concerned pulled on a Latics shirt for a […]
This photograph is the perfect keepsake of a unique game played at Springfield Park. The crowd, as you can see was rammed, and so it should have been because the game in question provided Wigan Athletic’s largest ever crowd to witness a non competitive match whilst they were based at their old home. Just for […]
WIGAN BOROUGH – AN ENIGMA. Having seen three Wigan association football clubs go to the wall the public of Wigan, aided by some wealthy businessmen of the Borough, tried to keep the game alive in the town and in November 1919 a fourth local team was formed and was to be known as Wigan United. […]
WIGAN UNITED FC (again!), WIGAN ASSOCIATION FC AND WIGAN BOROUGH FC In November 1919, just over a year after the war had ended, a new club was formed. Wigan United Football Club (no link to the earlier club) played their initial matches at the Honeysuckle Ground in Poolstock, but by the end of the 1919-20 […]
WIGAN COUNTY FC Several weeks prior to a ‘grand athletics and cycling festival’ that opened the new Springfield Park stadium, Wigan County FC announced that they would be playing two practice matches, one would take place on Wednesday 25th August 1897 and the other would take place on the following Sunday, 28th August 1897. The […]
On Wednesday 20th January 1897 work began on a new sports stadium to cater for several sports in the Wigan area. The name of the new ground was to be Springfield Park. At 2.30pm on that date there was a ‘cutting of the first sod’ ceremony and this was performed by Mr Johnson, watched by […]
THE START OF THE DREAM (SEASON 1932/33) … Just two months after Wigan Borough’s demise a band of men met in the Pagefield Hotel on Park Road and discussed the possibility of forming another town association football team. After lengthy discussions it was decided to call a public meeting in the town early in the […]
SPRINGFIELD PARK Biggest victories in every competition, Cheshire League 12-1 v Congleton Town – 1937/38 Cheshire League Cup 7-0 v Frickley Colliery – 1964/65 Lancashire Combination 9-0 v Blackpool ‘B’ – 1952/53 9-0 v Prescot Cables – 1953/54 Lancs Combination Cup 12-0 v Stubshaw Cross – 1954/55 Lancashire Junior Cup 10-1 v Earlstown – 1953/54 […]