Myth

You really are not very bright are you? A billion people will watch the World Cup, but you say the viewing figure doesn’t mean it is good. I think a billion people may disagree with you on that point, for, if a billion people did not find it good, surely they would not watch it. Do you not realise that it is all down to your own personal preference, and that is why your personal preference is to watch the global sport that is Rugby League and not the minority sport of football?

Yes, there are many Wigan players who play international Rugby League, but considering the muddy well that Rugby League players are drawn from is so shallow, that’s hardly surprising is it? Others have already tried to highlight this on this particular thread, but you don’t understand it do you?

During formal education in Wigan (I presume you went to a school of some sort), football was not encouraged at most schools. Rugby League, athletics, swimming, smoking in toilets etc were, but not football. How do you expect kids to take up football if you don’t encourage it at that level? I played for both the rugby and football teams at school, but if games clashed, I was made fully aware of which choice was the correct one.

The Cheech to your Chong (aka Mutty) harps on about Wigan born players not playing for the club, or for England. Mutty, considering Sunderland is a purely football town, and has been for over a century, neither the Sunderland nor England team are swamped with Mackem lads are they? Wigan is a developing nation in the world of football having only entered the league in 1978 – in case you hadn’t noticed, and it will come ( at least a Wigan born player playing for the first team). If the team was full of Wigan lads, would they be in Premier League? I mean, the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs and Man City are full of homegrown lads who have come up through the ranks aren’t they? There are lots of large towns in the UK where they have never had a player represent England, and in a lot of cases, have never had a team in the top tiers of football, let alone a local born player to play for them in those leagues.

Wigan is changing whether you like it or not. I personally quite like watching Rugby League. I also played it into my early twenties, and it is not a bad sport in general. It is, however, not football, and anti-football half-wits like you are the reason why it gets a bad name. I know some of the admin from the RL site that you post on, and they also like football. So, why do you refer to it as ‘fussball’? Is it an inferiority thing? Were you the fat lad at school, who had no coordination, and who was always last to be picked, or are you actually a German RL fan?

Wigan is not a rugby town, and it never has been. It’s a football town, like every other town and city in the UK, and Europe. A high proportion of people in Wigan have a favourite football team, and they will watch a football game if it on TV. The percentage of football fans in the town who also follow Rugby League is considerably less – otherwise your JJB stores (etc) would have a tiny football shirt section, and a larger section featuring a replica shirt from every Super League team.

If you want genuine football banter, please keep posting on this site. If you intend coming on here and posting anti-football rubbish, when football fans are immediately banned from your sites if they try to respond, you can go and sit in the ‘Sin Bin’ for a while, or I’d be happy to propose you get sent off for ‘flopping’ on your mates.

Edit: Just read your later posts, emphasising that Wigan has produced talent in other sports except football. I suppose it has to be down to physiology then eh? Wigan people aren’t designed to play football. Is that what you are getting at? Seeing all the England flags hanging from windows and on cars compared to flags when the RL World Cup is on, it seems to me that quite a few people in Wigan like football. So, it must be down to physiology then….

You really are not very bright are you? A billion people will watch the World Cup, but you say the viewing figure doesn’t mean it is good. I think a billion people may disagree with you on that point, for, if a billion people did not find it good, surely they would not watch it. Do you not realise that it is all down to your own personal preference, and that is why your personal preference is to watch the global sport that is Rugby League and not the minority sport of football?

Yes, there are many Wigan players who play international Rugby League, but considering the muddy well that Rugby League players are drawn from is so shallow, that’s hardly surprising is it? Others have already tried to highlight this on this particular thread, but you don’t understand it do you?

During formal education in Wigan (I presume you went to a school of some sort), football was not encouraged at most schools. Rugby League, athletics, swimming, smoking in toilets etc were, but not football. How do you expect kids to take up football if you don’t encourage it at that level? I played for both the rugby and football teams at school, but if games clashed, I was made fully aware of which choice was the correct one.

The Cheech to your Chong (aka Mutty) harps on about Wigan born players not playing for the club, or for England. Mutty, considering Sunderland is a purely football town, and has been for over a century, neither the Sunderland nor England team are swamped with Mackem lads are they? Wigan is a developing nation in the world of football having only entered the league in 1978 – in case you hadn’t noticed, and it will come ( at least a Wigan born player playing for the first team). If the team was full of Wigan lads, would they be in Premier League? I mean, the likes for Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs and Man City are full of homegrown lads who have come up through the ranks. There are lots of large towns in the UK where they have never had a player represent England, and in a lot of cases, have never had a team in the top tiers of football, let alone a local born player to play for them in those leagues.

Wigan is changing whether you like it or not. I personally quite like watching Rugby League. I also played it into my early twenties, and it is not a bad sport in general. It is, however, not football, and anti-football half-wits like you are the reason why it gets a bad name. I know some of the admin from the RL site that you post on, and they also like football. So, why do you refer to it as ‘fussball’? Is it an inferiority thing? Were you the fat lad at school, who had no coordination, and who was always last to be picked, or are you actually a German RL fan?

Wigan is not a rugby town, and it never has been. It’s a football town, like every other town and city in the UK, and Europe. A high proportion of people in Wigan have a favourite football team, and they will watch a football game if it on TV. The percentage of football fans in the town who also follow Rugby League is considerably less – otherwise your JJB stores (etc) would have a tiny football shirt section, and a larger section featuring a replica shirt from every Super League team.

If you want genuine football banter, please keep posting on this site. If you intend coming on here and posting anti-football rubbish, when football fans are immediately banned from your sites if they try to respond, you can go and sit in the ‘Sin Bin’ for a while, or I’d be happy to propose you get sent off for ‘flopping’ on your mates.[/quote]
All i can say is top post,shoot them down standish,well in order. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Thank you Bob and Blue.

I’d had enough of reading the tripe they were posting. I’m a registered user on their RL site, and providing you are subtle in your posts, you can set them off on all sorts of unfounded rants. ;)

Michael Gray, Grant Leadbitter & Jordan Henderson spring to mind. Oh, and Martyn Waghorn, and the Howie brothers.

You mean like John Terry and Ashley/Carlton Cole? I note you exclude West Ham from your list of London clubs. Could that be because of the Ferdinand brothers, Joe Cole, Lampard etc etc.

So why has it produced sportsmen of the highest calibre in many sports, but not in football?

Michael Gray, Grant Leadbitter & Jordan Henderson spring to mind. Oh, and Martyn Waghorn, and the Howie brothers.

You mean like John Terry and Ashley/Carlton Cole? I note you exclude West Ham from your list of London clubs. Could that be because of the Ferdinand brothers, Joe Cole, Lampard etc etc.

So why has it produced sportsmen of the highest calibre in many sports, but not in football?[/quote]

He answered your question you buffoon. football as not been promoted in Wigan schools like rugby and other sports have down the years :roll:

Simply all the village idiots returning back to the shire’s after the match.

Michael Gray, Grant Leadbitter & Jordan Henderson spring to mind. Oh, and Martyn Waghorn, and the Howie brothers.

You mean like John Terry and Ashley/Carlton Cole? I note you exclude West Ham from your list of London clubs. Could that be because of the Ferdinand brothers, Joe Cole, Lampard etc etc.

So why has it produced sportsmen of the highest calibre in many sports, but not in football?[/quote]

Mutty, you are clearly not getting this. How many of those Sunderland lads you mentioned actually still play for Sunderland? Go away and check if you want, then come back and prove to me that the Sunderland first team is full of Sunderland raised players. I’ll give you a clue, Henderson is the only one. (And why no mention of the England team?)

As for Joe Cole, Lampard, and Terry all being local lads playing for Chelsea, they are all ex-West Ham and from the East End. London town’s a big place you know. If we are doing that, we might as well claim Baines as a Wigan lad as it’s about the same distance. Pollitt is from Farnworth, Kilbane was from Preston and Unsworth from Chorley, so does that count?

Yes West Ham have had lots of local lads in the past, as have Newcastle, Liverpool, Man Utd, Everton etc. The point I was trying to make was, teams do not have a starting eleven of local lads who have come up through the ranks these days. In most teams you’d be lucky to find a couple of locally raised players in the first team. So, your jibe about Wigan’s team of imports doesn’t stand up, as it can be applied to every team in the Premier League, including your very own Sunderland.

I’d love to hear your reasoning behind why Wigan can produce top athletes in every other sport except football. I would guess you’d try and give some answer that leant towards Wigan people not being interested in football, when at present every other car has a cross of St George fluttering along in the breeze, and the sports shops are full of replica shirts.

Because when he said he used to support Wigan Athletic it was a fabrication?