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, […]
or, This is Not a Match Report Because, my first pointer for people volunteering to do match reports would be to remember stuff. Work out a way to get the right events in roughly the right order to get the story of the game flowing. My second would be to pick a game where there […]
“Our luck was in today”. So said James McClean, the architect of Wigan Athletic’s first win since October 25th. McClean’s cross led to a Leeds own goal after 11 minutes, then he sealed the win with a powerful finish in the 82nd minute. Mackay got his tactics right this time around. He brought in […]