With you all the way Matty,,

Funny, it even states on a well known on-line thesaurus, "Curiously for an English football club, Wigan Athletic's chief rivalry is not with another football club, but with the local rugby league club, Wigan Warriors. It is a long-standing rivalry and in fact predates the club's formation, as previous football teams within the town are said to have struggled to attract support due to the success of the local rugby league club."

Do they have one game to look forward to at all? There must be at least half a dozen games in our regular rounds alone were i really want the week to pass quick beause i'm looking forward to the next game so much. I don't think they'll ever wake up to that weird derby day feeling

Looks like theres been a soiling of duds.................. www.cockneylatic.co.uk/forum/vie ... ?f=5&t=435

Looks like theres been a soiling of duds.................. www.cockneylatic.co.uk/forum/vie ... ?f=5&t=435

Quote ="Owdpopularsider"Looks like theres been a soiling of duds.................. www.cockneylatic.co.uk/forum/vie ... ?f=5&t=435'" JayT the site admin has obviously been a long time user of the board. 77 posts

Quote ="Owdpopularsider"Looks like theres been a soiling of duds.................. www.cockneylatic.co.uk/forum/vie ... ?f=5&t=435'" JayT the site admin has obviously been a long time user of the board. 77 posts

That'll be since the new-look site sprang up.

I shall wind my neck in them.

Looking good now after a shaky start.

Latics 0 - Man United 3

x 100,000,00

it's 4-0 to united now

edit: make that 5

5-0

Now FIVE - Nil.

finished 5-0

Sufferingsuckatash, eh well the ex Utd fans will be able to take their Tesco bag shirts back to the JJB store. I think youve got 28 days to exchange. Be free and proud to show your Red Devil tatoos boys!!

Wigan Athletic smacked five nil. Absolutely perfect.














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Everton Away next up.

Always loved them Toffees

The thread has been removed now I think, so what was actually said in it?

In true Kevin Keeganesque style I would love it if they went down, love it.

To be honest i would like to know where all this "wigan is turning/has turned blue" has come from? As 18,164 against quite possibly the biggest team in the world say differently to me

Thats a joke! Was thinking of going to the game today seeing as I'm in Wigan this weekend, but decided to watch Soccer Saturday with a few cans instead

Brother as gone with a group in hospitality box..he text saying the united end was packed out and there were loads all over the ground

6-7k united fans easy

Oh it's all .

The vast majority of their "support" are Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton, Blackburn, Manchester City fans living in Wigan who can't afford to watch their team play and so because they can watch a premiership team just go along. If or when Latics eventually tumble down the leagues when Whelan snuffs it or pulls out of Latics or decides he is losing money they will all bugger off elsewhere and wont want to watch a struggling League One Wigan Athletic thrashing it out with Brentford, Yeovil and Exeter. No rich overseas Arab billionaire will invest in Wigan Athletic. You have more chance of the pope having sex with a nun. That is why now I just laugh when someone tells me that Wigan is turning blue. It has and still is and forever will be a rugby league town. In the words of Maurice Lindsay "they're a very successful thriving little club and they've done almost everything right, they've signed a lot of quality juniors but they've chosen the backyard of rugby league to do it in!"

Wigan is a rugby league town. Fact.

Whoah, that's [idreadful[/i.

I just had a quick look on sporting life to see the results and that is the figure it quoted mate

to tell you the truth, i,m surprised they stated that many. i was stewarding in the north stand and the south was well down on supporters
the main lot of fans were congregated in the middle of the sth stand
for the champion team the wigan support was appalling

So approx 12,000 Plastics fans for their biggest game of the season and they say this town is turning blue