Any hope that Wigan would seal their first double of the season was blown away within the opening quarter of an hour as Birmingham dismantled a porous Wigan defence that in this period was lucky to concede only two goal, both to Donaldson Following last week’s F.A.Cup debacle in which Wigan could have been four […]
Following their huge success of the 2014 ball the good folk at Joseph’s Goal are delighted to announce that they will once again be hosting a night of glitz and glamour at the DW Stadium on Saturday 28th of March 2015. Tickets are now officially on sale. £55 for a single ticket and £550 for a table of […]
A non-scientific guide Previous managers 15% Yeah, let’s blame Roberto Martinez firstly for getting us relegated, as many of his detractors like to crow about, setting aside 11th May 2013. And not pinning enough players down to long term contracts. Also for signing a certain players who play a certain way who despite their talents […]
I haven’t written anything for a while, possibly because I’ve been too irate about the events of the past couple of months to conjure up any words suitable for this family publication. However, seeing as my New Year’s resolution is to be more positive, I’m going to have a crack at writing a few hundred […]
Well we are coming up to a week of the hyperbole that is the madness of January, not the SCS or Next sale but SkySports Transfer Window © with yellow being the “in” colour. Now as you may or may not know “I Love Football” and I am getting sick to death of this moronic coverage of […]
So we returned back to the TNS Offices after the Festive break, to find Wigan after a glimpse and it was a glimpse, are indeed still as shit as ever. The office mood is one of despondency bordering on anger, we had a surprise visit from the Wolf this week, he spent a morning teaching […]
Wigan Athletic’s dream of a third consecutive appearance at Wembley in the F.A. Cup came to a grinding halt at the first attempt as a pitiful first half performance followed by a slightly improved second half saw the side bring its poor league form in the cup Manager Malky Mackay sprang a surprise with […]
So to the FA Cup. Over recent years this has been rather successful competition for Wigan Athletic, the last 2 seasons have seen Wigan win the Cup & last season lose in the Semi Final to Arsenal on Penalties. Arsenal of course then went on to beat Hull 2-0 in last year’s Final. So you’d […]
Well what a half season that was, as I sit here surveying the league table showing us to be four points clear of our nearest rivals, on an unbeaten run of ten games with manager Uwe Rosler picking up consecutive manager of the month awards, with a cup semi final tie in the Carling Cup […]
First up, all the best for the forthcoming year to everyone past & present who have frequented this safe haven of Latics on the net, from the hard working team here at “This Northern Soul” No doubt like us, you will be glad to see the back of 2014, at least in WAFC footballing terms, […]