Phew! Now we’ve got that controversial 45th entry out of the way, let’s return to sturdier ground as there is no doubt that our next player has all the credentials to be included in the Wigan Athletic Top 50 List. Noel Ward was there at the beginning of our Football League life, running out at […]
This interview first appeared in Issue 44 of The Mudhutter fanzine. There are still copies left through reputable retailers and (weather permitting) less reputable fanzine sellers around the ground this Saturday. Failing that you can get your copy online at http://www.mudhutsmedia.co.uk/emods/easyshop/easyshop.php?prod.72 We always get a bit nervous when we’re selling the Mudhutter and someone in a […]
Anyone for a pantomime villain? Here we had a player who had amazing, natural ability but was often guilty of that most heinous of crimes to a Wigan Athletic crowd, the crime of not quite giving 100% all the time. Watching back my old videos, my first recollection of Haworth was of a rangy youngster […]
You mean that Gary Caldwell? Well yes of course we do. It’s fair to say that Gary didn’t exactly endear himself to the Latics faithful when he first arrived at the club in January 2010. He struggled to adjust in an awful Latics defence playing against some of the top teams in the country having […]
Today’s entry in our TNS Hall of Fame is another member of the current squad and the first of five goalkeepers to make the Top 50 list. Mike Pollitt is an interesting selection given that he has only made just over a handful of league appearances in the six years since our first season in […]
In the early 1990’s we lived in Colombia. Friends in England used to ask why we would choose to live in a dangerous place like that. That was a hard question to answer. How can you explain what a country is really like to someone who has never been there? I would mention the […]
Mwah, ha, ha, ha! The TNS secret laboratory has been working overtime and, for once, our random experiments have produced a result. BarStaff’s atmos-o-tron, made from a mish-mash of NPL programmes, used non-league tickets, left over TNS mugs and a Christmas tree with cans of Carlsberg on it, has successfully controlled the conditions to give […]
We’re up and running and time with another name in our Top 50 Latics players rundown. The problem is with things like this is that older fans pour scorn on the focus that is put on today’s Premier League prima donnas who have barely played 50 games yet younger fans don’t want to read about […]
There has been much debate following the Euro’s success of Spain, a lot of it prompted by our own manager Roberto Martinez as to the English mentality of dismissing young footballers as “not being big enough” to play the game at the top level and Spain’s sweeping dismissal of this philosophy.