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I hadn’t seen this before, but doesn’t the portion from 2:38 sound familiar? What an misplacedly arrogant little man.
He also changed all Wigan A team/reserve home games to clash with Boroughs games at Springfield Park.
Didn’t like another RL team in “His backyard” same as he despised us.
The Gobshite,never forget. :angry:So, if Wimbledon had moved to play in Wigan, rather than Milton Keynes, you’d have been happy about it and expected Uncle Dave to welcome another football club to the town with open arms?
I cant recall Springfield Borough being there for the minimum 10 years that the other dodgy hairstyle said at around the 4.00 mark. I’d say he was the Gobshite. Lindsay was chairman of Wigan and he was speaking from their interests – what else would you expect him to say?
But they didn’t. And were never going to.
If the Wigan RL board had any sort of respect at that time towards Wigan Athletic then Springfield Borough never would of happened. The reality was Lyndsey and co seemed to be doing everything thing they could to turn the local population away from the football club.
If memory serves me right, Lyndsey appearing in the local and national press was spreading the message that football was not safe to watch due to the violence whereas RL was a safe family environment (that’s a laugh). I also seem to remember the Wigan RL match day programme regally putting the football club down.
You cant blame the football club for doing everything they could to keep afloat because there was very little help coming from any other direction.
If memory serves me right, Lyndsey appearing in the local and national press was spreading the message that football was not safe to watch due to the violence whereas RL was a safe family environment (that’s a laugh). I also seem to remember the Wigan RL match day programme regally putting the football club down.If memory serves me right, Lindsay refused permission for a Wigan v Liverpool cup tie to be played at a large, but unsegregated ground at a time when violence at football matches was very much in existance.
Whilst I didnt like him, and do not agree with his “backyard” comment, I do agree that having thousands of unsegregated supporters around Central Park would have been a bad thing – particularly when it was less than 6 months after the Hillsborough disaster, and at a time when crowd safety was very very paramount.
Sure that the story I heard about the Liverpool game was that Doris wanted fences that could be removed the morning after the game whereas the police and council wanted them to be a more permanent fitting. Presumably this would have meant more solid foundations and stuff so it didn’t happen….in fairness to them, maybe Wigan RL weren’t to blame for that game being played at Anfield
Wigan Council shafted Latics by continuously reducing Sprinkfield Parks capacity, to an eventual 6,000,
The same Wigan Council that have jumped on the Latics bandwagon as soon as we get some success.
Lord Smith is a free loading twat!
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