WAFC AGAINST MODERN FOOTBALL

From your description, it sounds like you’re just moaning for the hell of it.

Football fans, especially Wigan fans on the whole, need to be more positive imo.

We don’t have much to moan about to be honest, low ticket prices, no boardroom turmoil, no managers getting sacked freuqently, we’ve been part of a revolution in the past 15 years.

Need I go on?

Doesn’t the FSF Football Supporters Federation) publically do this? and has done for many years on this and a host of other ‘problems’ in our game.

Also the Wigan Athletic Supporters Club tends to be the official voice for Latics fans, have you approached them? I guess not as you have formed another group.

If Man U fans etc are willing to pay £42 each week then I have little sympathy. The only way to make a real protest is for them to boycott their clubs and let the sky cameras show empty grounds with no atmosphere. I’m not prepared to stump up that sort of money (as much as I would like to go), but fair play to Blackburn for making an away game affordable and as a result they had a decent turnout.

The problem with our club is not the season tickets, but the fact that it is too complicated for a casual to get a cheapish ticket. Forget Christmas Crackers/junior stripes/bring a mate for a fiver/4 for £60 or whatever it was and the like. It is at least £15 for a casual junior to turn up and watch. That’s the same as a junior at Old Trafford. I know people who when they have a free day would go and watch football on the spur of the moment but at least £40 for a lad and dad is far too much for them. £10 and £5 at Blackburn. Simple and affordable with them more likely to come back for more.

As to the campaign – surely it’s now time that football fans should be allowed a drink in their seats. Apart from the kid who sits behind me who spills his coke every week that is…

Sorry, I don’t know you personally, but what an absolute crock of shyte this is. Your username stands up to scrutiny.

Players’ wages are high because of the money pumped into football which is directly connected to the global demand for football. If nobody wanted to watch it, nobody would pay for the rights to see it etc.

Ticket prices are high (although not at Wigan, so why jump on the bandwagon?) because top class players are expensive – see above.

I’ve never been treated – what I consider to be – badly as an away fan in the UK. Have you, and if so, why? Segregation, stewarding and policing are put in place for a reason, and that reason is not to deliberately antagonise football supporters. Are you taking a leaf from the book of other clubs’ supporters who have been treated badly overseas?

Man U etc charge you £42, because that’s what the home fans pay. They don’t need you there, so if you don’t like it, don’t go.

What is wrong with the way the club is run? It’s in less debt than most clubs and we are still punching above our weight.

‘clubs are forcing the working class out of the working class sport. you only need to look at man utd and arsenal for evidence of that’

What? They still have 80,000 on most weeks. Yes, they are staying away in their droves aren’t they? There’s a waiting list for season tickets at both clubs. It’s ten quid a ticket at some Wigan games, and we still don’t get a full house. What do you want? Free entry and a lard butty? Is that working class enough for you?
As for the ‘stand up, sit down’ debate, as long as there are pr/cks watching football (please refer to your point about being treated badly as an away supporter) it will never happen.

Good luck with the Athletico Wigan offshoot, and lobbying UEFA to get £150 season tickets instead of £350. I hope you manage to get yourself on the telly. Alternatively, go and watch Ashton or Bamber Bridge etc. They tick all your boxes.