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Looks like everybody is dumbstruck by what we have become! Less than 2 years ago we were holding aloft the FA Cup and still in the Premier League, albeit only just, something that many couldn’t have even dreamt of and now we are on the brink of football oblivion, because let’s face it no one gives a flying fuck about anything lower than The Championship, apart from respective lower league club’s fans that is! Some would argue that no one gives a flier about anything lower than the Premiership but at least while you are in the Championship you still have that incentive to hopefully one day be involved with all the big names in football! Like it or not ( And I particularly didn’t ) but the Prem is what brings in the punters, it is what gets people talking and it also has that other little incentive, shit loads of money for your club!
All the so called ‘Johnny Come Latelys’ have gone now bar a few hangers on but they too will be gone if we drop to League One and we shall be left with the hardcore, the old skool who will already be salivating at the prospect of visiting loads of shite grounds to evoke memories of bygone days, well the Prem and FA Cup are now bygone days, days that I feel will never be upon us again, well not in my lifetime! It’s been fun but now it’s the turn of the low times, enjoy!Bloody hell Phil! There are a lot of words there for someone who’s speechless!I am never speechless! ;) Just trying to create a bit of chat as it’s gone very quiet !
It’s has gone very quiet.
I wish Whelan would come out and make a t1t of himself in front of the press again so we all had something to talk about.
It’s has gone very quiet.I wish Whelan would come out and make a t1t of himself in front of the press again so we all had something to talk about.
Has his 6 week stint on the sidelines come to an end yet?
Looks like everybody is dumbstruck by what we have become! Less than 2 years ago we were holding aloft the FA Cup and still in the Premier League, albeit only just, something that many couldn’t have even dreamt of and now we are on the brink of football oblivion, because let’s face it no one gives a flying fuck about anything lower than The Championship, apart from respective lower league club’s fans that is! Some would argue that no one gives a flier about anything lower than the Premiership but at least while you are in the Championship you still have that incentive to hopefully one day be involved with all the big names in football! Like it or not ( And I particularly didn’t ) but the Prem is what brings in the punters, it is what gets people talking and it also has that other little incentive, shit loads of money for your club!
All the so called ‘Johnny Come Latelys’ have gone now bar a few hangers on but they too will be gone if we drop to League One and we shall be left with the hardcore, the old skool who will already be salivating at the prospect of visiting loads of shite grounds to evoke memories of bygone days, well the Prem and FA Cup are now bygone days, days that I feel will never be upon us again, well not in my lifetime! It’s been fun but now it’s the turn of the low times, enjoy!But only if the those “shite grounds” have had the cash to upgrade the ground facilities to include access for their mobility scooters.
Looks like everybody is dumbstruck by what we have become! Less than 2 years ago we were holding aloft the FA Cup and still in the Premier League, albeit only just, something that many couldn’t have even dreamt of and now we are on the brink of football oblivion, because let’s face it no one gives a flying fuck about anything lower than The Championship, apart from respective lower league club’s fans that is! Some would argue that no one gives a flier about anything lower than the Premiership but at least while you are in the Championship you still have that incentive to hopefully one day be involved with all the big names in football! Like it or not ( And I particularly didn’t ) but the Prem is what brings in the punters, it is what gets people talking and it also has that other little incentive, shit loads of money for your club!
All the so called ‘Johnny Come Latelys’ have gone now bar a few hangers on but they too will be gone if we drop to League One and we shall be left with the hardcore, the old skool who will already be salivating at the prospect of visiting loads of shite grounds to evoke memories of bygone days, well the Prem and FA Cup are now bygone days, days that I feel will never be upon us again, well not in my lifetime! It’s been fun but now it’s the turn of the low times, enjoy!There’s a very good chance that we’ll never get back. Does it really matter in the grand scheme? There are some who’d say we had no right to ever get there in the first place. It was nothing short of a miracle and I maintain that it is up there with the very best football stories ever. We did EIGHT consecutive seasons in the PL. EIGHT. And we bowed out by winning the FA Cup to put the cherry on the icing on the cake. Clubs like Barnsley, Bradford and Swindon did one season and have never won nowt. Yo-yo clubs like West Ham, Birmingham and Boro; perennial underachievers. Put our achievements in that kind of context and we should have nothing to bemoan ever.
Our rise was of its time and I think there’s a certain inevitability about our decline. The manner of it isn’t very pretty, granted, but there’s a bottom to every barrel. If we do go down then we go down. No one person is responsible, it’s a whole host of events that have got us here. There’ll still be thousands turning up to watch next season and enjoying it, moaning about it and doing the manager’s job from the stands and from behind computer keyboards regardless. Que sera.
I have to be pedantic and point out that Bradford City won the FA Cup in 1911 and Barnsley in 1912.Sod off ;)
Looks like everybody is dumbstruck by what we have become! Less than 2 years ago we were holding aloft the FA Cup and still in the Premier League, albeit only just, something that many couldn’t have even dreamt of and now we are on the brink of football oblivion, because let’s face it no one gives a flying fuck about anything lower than The Championship, apart from respective lower league club’s fans that is! Some would argue that no one gives a flier about anything lower than the Premiership but at least while you are in the Championship you still have that incentive to hopefully one day be involved with all the big names in football! Like it or not ( And I particularly didn’t ) but the Prem is what brings in the punters, it is what gets people talking and it also has that other little incentive, shit loads of money for your club!
All the so called ‘Johnny Come Latelys’ have gone now bar a few hangers on but they too will be gone if we drop to League One and we shall be left with the hardcore, the old skool who will already be salivating at the prospect of visiting loads of shite grounds to evoke memories of bygone days, well the Prem and FA Cup are now bygone days, days that I feel will never be upon us again, well not in my lifetime! It’s been fun but now it’s the turn of the low times, enjoy!Fil, you say the Prem and FA Cup are bygone days and to quote, “I feel will never be upon us again well not in my lifetime” well I said in the past “We would never get in league in my lifetime”. You have followed this club long enough to know marrer that you never underestimate what Wigan Athletic can do. When I was a kid everybody in town told me we would never get in the first division as it was then. We will turn it round it is a matter of time. Look how many clubs have gone into League 1 after falling out of the Prem. we will be in some decent company. The Prem is good whilst you are in it but it causes a whole world of problems when your not. Every player today thinks he should be playing in the Prem and once we have a team of players who know their level we will be on the up. Believe Fil.
Wigan Athletic will NEVER grace the Premier League with it’s presence again because Whelan has created a monster. When he waddles off at the end of the season with all the accumulated cash he leaves the club in a 25,000 stadium they won’t be able to afford to run. “i want to make sure the future of Wigan Athletic is secure” Bullshit!! within 5 years of him going he will have them kicked out of their own stadium. There will be a clause in there somewhere where he would be able to fuck them over. That’s what he does. he likes upsetting folk, it’s how he get’s his kicks. be playing Buxton at Robin Park in a few years. They were always going to go the way of pre 1995, Whelan just stepped in and used the club to make money for a bit. Now he will let pre 1995 continue and let them rot away.
Mercenary of the highest order.
Wigan Athletic will NEVER grace the Premier League with it’s presence again because Whelan has created a monster. When he waddles off at the end of the season with all the accumulated cash he leaves the club in a 25,000 stadium they won’t be able to afford to run. “i want to make sure the future of Wigan Athletic is secure” Bullshit!! within 5 years of him going he will have them kicked out of their own stadium. There will be a clause in there somewhere where he would be able to fuck them over. That’s what he does. he likes upsetting folk, it’s how he get’s his kicks. be playing Buxton at Robin Park in a few years. They were always going to go the way of pre 1995, Whelan just stepped in and used the club to make money for a bit. Now he will let pre 1995 continue and let them rot away.Mercenary of the highest order.
This is a wind-up, you are fishing for responses, and I claim the £20 prize.
Wigan Athletic will NEVER grace the Premier League with it’s presence again because Whelan has created a monster. When he waddles off at the end of the season with all the accumulated cash he leaves the club in a 25,000 stadium they won’t be able to afford to run. “i want to make sure the future of Wigan Athletic is secure” Bullshit!! within 5 years of him going he will have them kicked out of their own stadium. There will be a clause in there somewhere where he would be able to fuck them over. That’s what he does. he likes upsetting folk, it’s how he get’s his kicks. be playing Buxton at Robin Park in a few years. They were always going to go the way of pre 1995, Whelan just stepped in and used the club to make money for a bit. Now he will let pre 1995 continue and let them rot away.
Mercenary of the highest order.
This is a wind-up, you are fishing for responses, and I claim the £20 prize.[/quote]
Sorry it’s only a fiver when it’s the easy edition.
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