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I think you’ve misconstrued it. It’s far from a jibe at attendances. It’s written as a Wigan response to those jibes.
Excerpt:
Also happy was Leeds United director Steve Darvey: ‘This move by Wigan can only be good for British football. Who really wants to see clubs finish in surprising positions? Not me. I’d much rather see all the previously successful teams all playing each other every season, no matter how bad their teams might be.
‘Unfortunately it’s Wigan’s own fault for being founded 40 years after the rest of us, if they had serious plans about staying in the Premiership then they would have been elected into the Football League in the early 20th Century, leaving it to the late 70s is bad management. We can’t just sit around waiting for them to create some history and win trophies. They should have done that when we did, back in the 1960s and 70s. Never mind that they weren’t even a League club then.’
It amused me anyway…
