Put it this way – you’ve watched Latics for a good few years. Do you boo during a game? Do you groan or barrack whenever a player miscontrols a ball, or worse, before he’s even taken the corner/free kick? The ones I see boing at games and shouting abuse at the bench who sit near me have only appeared since promotion to the Premier League. If/when we are relegated, I’ll put money on them disappearing again.
Or maybe it’s a Wigan thing rather than just Wigan Athletic – as the Wigan Walk has been in circulation since at least the eighties when Central Park cleared in minutes if all was not going well. If you speak to any rugby supporter from neighbouring towns, they all regard Wiganers as the most fickle supporters in Rugby League.
And, maybe that’s why nobody protests, sings Martinez out, or unfurls banners. It’s the Wigan way to moan, groan, boo, then walk out, mumbling all the way home.
Some of the people who know me at Latics will be laughing at that first question!!!!! In a moment I aint proud of I was the “season ticket holder” Paul Jewell was referring to in his post match interview after Sheff Utd away!!
I’ve been at games where some supporters moaning has seemed to be for moaning’s sake & I’ve had a go at them (United away in Latics first top flight season springs to mind) but at every game I’ve ever been to I have (to varying degrees) moaned, groaned or grumbled – I think some people round me thought I was having some kind of fit when Moses didn’t pass to Crusat against Everton!!!!! And that was kind of my initial point – I don’t think there is a club in the land where he wouldn’t have got stick from the crowd for that especially seeing as how he does it regularly
I agree that amongst the newer support you will probably find a larger proportion of the “openly” moaners & booers per head than you will possibly find amongst the old timers (per head) but I think its a pretty broad sweep to label them all as JCL’s – & to be fair even if they are JCL’s they are as entitled to boo & moan as someone who has been going for 60 years is entitled to continually cheer & applaud
Oh & as another point, I’m baffled as to why martinez thinks I should give a $h!t that 2 Swansea players were surprised that the atmosphere on Saturday was negative. As Swansea players they haven’t got a scooby doo about what has been going on at Wigan Athletic during Bobby’s reign (good or bad) nor should they have so why should I care that they thought it was negative (or positive for that matter)
