I put it to you that Wigan have the highest concentration of Streets Won’t Forget footballers in Premier League history.
Eight years in the PL, each dripping with SWF legends
#wafc
We get every Premier League player to sit down on camera and say how they want their name pronounced - and there’s LOADS I did wrong. So here’s a thread so you don’t make the same mistakes I did!
You could make a pretty convincing ‘do they play for Nottingham Forest 2022/23 or are they in the Turkish Süper Lig’ quiz and I think I’d probably struggle
The global takeover of Freed From Desire being caused by a random Wigan fan sat at home with a tambourine will forever be hilarious to me
#ClosingCeremony
#Paris2024
#wafc
Jürgen Klopp tells me post match that Ibrahima Konaté’s substitution was precautionary - ‘he said if he carried on it may be a problem so we will see [for Sunday]’
#LFC
#UEL
@footballontnt
I’m assuming this will be Southgate’s last game in charge.
The people who think there will be an immediate, dramatic improvement will be disappointed, I think
#Euro2024
🚨🟢 Sporting manager Amorim on new links for Viktor Gyokeres and PL clubs: “He will only leave if someone pays the buyout clause in January — otherwise he will stay”.
Release clause: €100m.
A few years ago, I did a thread of all the Premier League players whose names we were pronouncing incorrectly.
Here’s the 2024/25 version, based on how the players themselves say their names:
Pascal Chimbonda.
Antonio Valencia.
Wilson Palacios.
Amr Zaki.
Ali Al-Habsi.
Maynor Figueroa.
Hugo Rodallega.
Jean Beausejour.
Henri Camara.
Paul Scharner.
Arouna Koné.
Ryan Taylor.
JORDI GÓMEZ.
Who can compete with that?
#wafc
Jürgen Klopp told me postmatch that Ryan Gravenberch just had a touch of cramp when he came off - first time he’s played extended minutes in a long time!
#LFC
#UEL
@tntsports
✍️ Welcome to County, 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹!
We are delighted to announce the signing of the former Manchester United and Stoke City midfielder, on a three-year-deal.
And doesn't he look good in blue 😍
#StockportCounty
@FarleyWrites
Ten years out I don’t think that’s a bad effort. Sturridge, Wilshere, Jones and Butland could easily be there but for injury. Shaw will go, and there’s every chance *a* Chalobah is in the squad, even if they’ve picked the wrong one…
"It's a dream come true for me!"
Omonia goalkeeper and Manchester United fan Francis Uzoho was delighted with the chance to play at Old Trafford... 🤩
🎙️
@DannyJamieson
Sam Morsy owner of one of the great disciplinary sequences:
- nine bookings in first 20 games
- zero bookings in the next 14 games
- suspension threshold lifted to 15 yellows
- immediately booked in next game
Hero
#wafc
#itfc
Big, exclusive interview with Sam Morsy - the Premier League’s newest captain. Nearly threw it all away at 16; now he’s the dynamo who has led Ipswich to the top. The month before his 33rd birthday, we get to the bottom of what’s driven him here at last.
The last
@OfficialFPL
update of the season - thanks so much for watching, hope they were useful for a some of you - congratulations to the winners and let’s do it all again in August!
#FPL
@eljonesuk
@btsportfootball
Honestly just the loveliest guy. Really happy for him even if they didn’t get the result! Just nice to see a guy’s dream come true ❤️❤️❤️
On a serious note: when was the last time you could make a legitimate case that an Englishman was the best player in the world? Pre Messi/Ronaldo, certainly.
Owen’s Ballon d’Or year? Shearer in the mid-90s? John Barnes? Kevin Keegan? Even earlier?
#bellingham
Notts County are very, very good - some of the football they play is absolutely sublime.
Between them and Wrexham…this will be a hell of a
@TheVanaramaNL
title race
If you can find a single example from a cup competition *anywhere in the world* where a fifth division side take 6,000 fans to an away game I’ll be astonished.
Don’t let anyone tell you the
#FACup
isn’t special
Fulham look like such a pain in the arse to play against.
Really compact, really well organised, hard working, and they’ve basically got the HMS Dreadnought at the base of midfield in João Palhinha. Just so solid
#FFC
Kevin De Bruyne is a really tough one for British people as the sound in his surname doesn’t really exist in English - it’s sort of ‘de BRERRR-neh’ rather that pronouncing the ‘y’ in the middle
#mcfc
Nothing in football is more ominous than
#MOTD
showing a player getting booked for a completely isolated incident. Only one way that’s going and it’s for an early bath
Don't be one of those people who share the footage, or any pictures of Christian Eriksen on the pitch today. Nobody needs that on their timeline.
#Euro2020
#DEN
@thecultraspod
I submit an entire game. 15th December 2007. Wigan 5-3 Blackburn. A hat trick apiece for Marcus Bent and Roque Santa Cruz. Just look at those two teams. Steve Bruce and Mark Hughes in the dugouts. About as pure, distilled Barclays as I can remember
🚨 Barcelona are about to make a historic decision — The club is set to terminate its contract with Nike and create Barça’s OWN brand to manufacture the jerseys. This will mean that the club will be sponsor itself and keep 100% of the profits.
(Source:
@SPORT
)
Tremendous day being shown round
#LCFC
’s outstanding new training ground by Jonny Evans and Brendan Rodgers for Premier League TV.
It’s the best facility I’ve ever seen - can feel the ambition running through the club right now
Judging from what I’ve seen on Twitter today the Chesterfield team to play York this weekend is just going to be the 11 players who have sobered up the most by Friday morning 😂
#spireites
Been great fun filming Differential Captains for
@OfficialFPL
all season - our awesome cameraman
@Hutchio
is the only person ahead of me in our office
#FPL
league, only one more GW to catch him!
Jamie Carragher on
#MNF
tonight: "I've been watching [Joe Gelhardt] since he was 12 years old. He's a special talent".
Bargain of the century for
#LUFC
to get him for £1m from Wigan
#wafc
The moment
@bromleyfc
made it to the EFL for the first time in their history.
Captain Byron Webster scoring the winning penalty, Grant Smith saving twice in the shootout.
Fantastic achievement for Andy Woodman and his side 👏
Congratulations to Wigan Athletic who have confirmed their League One status officially this afternoon with a win at Lincoln. After an eight point deduction, transfer embargo and a reliance on academy players it’s a great achievement
#WAFC
I have two free transfers in
#FPL
this week and I don’t really want to change much...but I also don’t really want to waste one! Such a first world problem...
Players past and present including Chey Dunkley, Joe Gelhardt, Joe Williams and James McLean all helping raise money for
@LaticsOfficial
’s future. Seen fans donate from Charlton, Leeds, Arsenal and so many more. Amazing 👏
#wafc
Then there’s loads that have been here for years and I’ve never been sure:
Granit Xhaka (‘CHA-ka’)
#AFC
Juan Foyth (‘FOYT’)
#COYS
Martin Dubravka (‘du-BRAW-ka’)
#NUFC
Joël Matip (‘jo-EL MAH-tip’)
#LFC
Richarlison (‘RI-shar-li-son’)
#EFC
Other clubs have had spells - Fulham when they first came up, Middlesbrough in the late 90s, that period where Stoke just signed anyone with a Champions League winner’s medal - but I don’t think anyone can top Wigan for consistency across their entire PL era
@oilysailor
Ronaldo has only ever scored two direct free kicks. The one against Portsmouth and the one against Spain. This is a conspiracy hill I'm willing to die on.
Whoever comes up with an app that notifies you whenever a penalty shootout is about to happen anywhere in world football and sends you a link to watch it will be a very rich person
#GTFC
manager Paul Hurst to
@btsportfootball
after beating Wrexham today: “I said to the players make sure you look nice because you might be on a documentary!”
First time in the
@btsportscore
studio. Loved every second of it.
This was something I always wanted to do growing up - so being able to bring Saturday 3pm to life with these legends was an incredible privilege!
#presenter
#lovemyjob
Phil Foden.
Jude Bellingham.
Jadon Sancho.
Raheem Sterling.
Marcus Rashford.
Jack Grealish.
I mean if
#England
can’t get a tune out of those lads at the Euros this summer what are we even doing
Find it amazing that 2,500 Oldham fans travelled to Halifax today. Could easily be the biggest travelling support outside the Premier League today - for a fifth division match!
18 games in the last 63 days. One every 3.5 days for nine straight weeks.
W10 D5 L3 in that stretch. Now just a point off the top of League One with two games in hand. Phenomenal effort.
#wafc
@AlbertBreer
He explains things really well and has a genuine enthusiasm for the game, it's the only two things really I want in an announcer. No guarantee Brady is better
From today’s big
@TheAthleticFC
interview with Shaun Maloney: Wigan’s wage bill last year in the Championship was a ludicrous £18m.
This year it’s down to less than £4m
#wafc
@AdamDod93763363
@FarleyWrites
Adam feel free to share yours from 2013 that will no doubt include a 10 year old Jude Bellingham and a 13 year old Phil Foden
Emile Heskey for Wigan at Bramall Lane, final day of the 2006/7 season. Led the line superbly, then was a COLOSSUS at centre back to see the game out. Incredible.
#wafc
Incredible really - a club on its knees most of the season, an academy raided to keep the club in business, and yet Wigan's U18s still end the season as champions 🙌
#wafc
One of the most iconic Premier League seasons ever in my opinion.
Rodney Marsh claiming they wouldn’t win 10 corners never mind 10 games. Chimbonda’s gloves. Bullard bantering his way through winter. GI Kav pinging one long range shot per game miles over the bar. Glorious
#wafc
A reminder that Wigan Athletic beat Pep Guardiola’s Man City with a midfield containing Gary Roberts and David Perkins. There’s always a chance,
#swfc
fans!
#wafc
#mcfc
#FACup