Non-League Day, the campaign to promote semi-professional and amateur football, returns for a fifth consecutive season on Saturday 6th September 2014. The event, which regularly features on SKY Sports, Soccer AM, 5live and The Non-League Football Show, always coincides with a break in the Premier League and Championship calendar, giving a wide range of fans […]
Well after the final which Bury won 4-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw, it has been a great way to prepare for the forthcoming (hopefully promotion) season, I have a personal hatred of friendly matches and refuse to watch them, even my beloved Latics, apathy by the players is not what I expect from a game of football. […]
So we are just a few days away from the start of the 2014/15 season. The TNS office is quiet for a mid Week, with just Peter in the office with myself as I type this article up. He’s been tutting a lot this afternoon as he works on his Google Calendar to balance the […]
With a packed house assembled in the Marquee on the eve of a new season, it didn’t take long for notoriously forthright Wiganers to get to the point in this lively Q&A Session. The event was hosted by BBC’s George Riley who took to the stage to introduce Rösler and CEO Jonathan Jackson for 90 […]
And why is he upsetting people. I’d not heard of him until a week or so ago. Apparently, he’s worth £11m though. For a player who is on paper at this current stage, a League One player. The way that Bees fans are talking about him he must be the Scouse Pirlo or summat, the […]
He is a centre back who stays cool under pressure, waiting for the right moment to intervene. He exudes a calmness that helps to gel the back line of defence. If it were not for the cruciate knee injury he probably would not be at Wigan. The classy Ivan Ramis is the one most Latics […]
Yes the MFE is back for the new season to give you it’s acerbic take on all matters close to our heart and yours. We’d love to tell you that we’ve had a tough pre-season getting ourselves leaner and meaner but that would be a wholly inaccurate statement designed to slip in a very ropey […]
Skinner & Baddiel sang the popular ditty (at the time) Footballs Coming Home over THIRTY years ago. So why hasn’t it? the dust has settled on another underwhelming performance at a major tournament for England who are now turning into a Scotlandesque type of outfit. I wonder how long it’ll be before we start getting […]
The Vanaram Conference (Div5) has decreed a sensible step to allow 3G pitches to be used in all three of it’s divisions from next season. This decision is hot on the heels that in March that 3G pitches will be allowed in all rounds of the FA Cup from the start of the 2014-15 season. It […]
Tonight Wigan Athletic travel to face SC Paderborn, newly promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time in their history. In May, Paderborn clinched second place in the Bundesliga second division with a 2-1 win in the last game of the season at home to Aelen. As with Latics entering the Premier League in 2005, the […]