I feel guilty. Which my firends at Blue Peter tell me is never a good feeling when announcing a competition winner. But honesty is the best policy, so it’s best to lay the reason my guilt on the table and it’s because I set what I thought was an easy question to win this scarf […]
England was a troubled and turbulent place in 1942; the 2nd World War overshadowed everything, well nearly everything. Life went on as best it could around the terraced streets of Wigan. I dare say the children of the day would have been quite pleased that soap rationing meant that Mam could only use one bar […]
Less than a year ago Brighton and Hove Albion were playing a style of football akin to that of Wigan Athletic under Roberto Martinez. A lot has happened since then. Both clubs lost their managers at the end of the season. Brighton sought a replacement who would build upon the style of play established by […]
So we’ve had a little dalliance with the present and recent past there in the high forties entries and now as we enter the part of the contest where the Top 40 Wigan Athletic players start to be revealed, we cast our eyes back a little bit further to a player who was a firm […]
So Brighton are at the DW today and after a few weeks off and with ne’er a Skint joke it seems a good excuse to do a Perfect Hat-Trick on a Norman Cook tip. Although when I tried it all sounded a bit, you know, like a Zoe Ball link on “Strictly Come Dancing: […]
Can I say pleasant things about someone who has just slung his hook for a whopping pay rise? I suppose it all depends really. We’ll have to go down the whole rigmarole of arguing over whether the money he was after effectively priced him out of getting a new contract at Wigan Athletic, or whether […]
Next up is a player familiar to all, a rising star who has just completed his third season at the DW Stadium still at the tender age of 21. He is the fourth player of the current squad to be nominated in the Top 50. James was something of a child prodigy having made his […]
So, another international break falls by the wayside and another golden generation is tarnished before it’s even grown into its shin pads. Whilst, in Australia, a young man, who looks a bit like a big girl, proves he’s anything but by ignoring all those people ignoring him and takes a load of wickets, before his […]
Both Jean Beausejour and Roger Espinoza have had a busy week, but neither would complain if Owen Coyle put them in the lineup against Brighton on Saturday. What are the chances? Beausejour played for the first 81 minutes for Chile at Wembley on Friday, then came on as a substitute after only 8 minutes […]
Time for another entry into our Wigan Athletic Hall of Fame and the illustrious names of the past keep on coming. In the case of Mickey Worswick, I can offer very little in my role as editor and co-ordinator of the TNS Top 50 as Mickey was wearing the blue and white stripes before I […]