Season of Dreams
It includes intriguing reviews, incredible features and breath-taking, full colour pictures that will keep the memories of their Premiership season alive in the fans memories forever.
It includes intriguing reviews, incredible features and breath-taking, full colour pictures that will keep the memories of their Premiership season alive in the fans memories forever.
The author chose this season to attend every home and away game, (including cup fixtures), and regales us with the story of one the most exciting seaons in Wigan Athletic’s history: a place in the Worthington Cup quarter finals, swatting Premier League clubs on the way, and a finale that took the club into Divison […]
Takes the form of a daily diary from these two Latics stalwarts, with contributions from several well known fanzine figures. Entertaining read for both fans who experienced that same nerve jangling, rollercoaster of a season, and anyone interested in hearing what real fans experienced in one, extraordinary footballing year. Hysterically funny in parts, strangely poignant […]
Simple to make and always to be enjoyed, the recipes in Pie show you how to master the basic art of pastry making and then how to transform even the most frugal filling into a luxury. This is one of the best cookery books I have seen in a long time. The book is a […]
Its a book about the grit and determination of a handful of stalwarts who kept the dream alive against a back-drop of anti-football bias in the towns own council, and its a book about the die-hard supporters following their team in the face of derision and disaster until the final incredible journey from obscurity to […]
David Goodman was born into a footballing family. His grandfather, a lifelong Hull City fan, lived on North Road, just behind the ‘Best Stand’ at Boothferry Park, and his dad is still a season ticket holder at local rivals Grimsby Town. Born in Hull, David began following City in the early seventies as the Tigers, […]
He covers his early years at home in Balaguer and subsequently with Real Zaragoza in detail, what comes thro’ in the book is his deep love and knowledge of the game coupled with modesty about his own prowess on the field. He touches on his time at Walsall and the turbulent goings on at Motherwell […]
This in itself is reason enough to purchase the book, as the reader gets a real feel as to how Wigan Athletic FC really was in those far away non league days. However, Ken’s frequent jaunts to Springfield Park are only part of the story. It also tells of the growing pains of a surly […]
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… And thinner, faster, didn’t drink as much and was better at football. You know the debate about how past heroes would have fared in the modern game (let’s call it the Campbell conundrum)? Or the one about whether more recently departed players would have coped with stepping up a division or two (the Ellington […]