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The magic of the cup returns
Would have been nice to have watched in the pub with a load of Wiggin armchair scouse, just to watch them all remove their LFC shirt and put on a city one when the Reading winner went in :mrgreen:
you can get 50/1 on tics, just need Chelsea and Arsenal to get knocked out now,
And Spurs & City
And Villa & Everton
And Leeds and Newcastle
Tha’s reet John. A lot of our fans treat watching the team as optional and gave the cup game the swerve. Individually they all had their excuses but collectively it caused us embarasment. Most of our support has come along or returned to the fold since sky came along and made it acceptable to watch the game on the telly, or via the internet or treat the fa cup as a second class competition. Everton away, Leeds home, Chelsea away, Southampton away as well as Leek, Barrow and Alty were some great fa cup days. As someone else said on here doesn’t matter if its the reserves, or who the opposition is, we support the team, the eleven who are wearing the shirt and since when has £15 been too expensive, you’ll not get in many League Two for that price, just excuses. The same people will have no problem finding £60-£80 for coach, ticket and ale money to go to Notts Co or Forest Green :roll:
When was the last time mighty aff contributed a post without using the word superfan? And what is the definition of a superfan?a Superfan is someone who starts another hysterical thread on a subject, such as Jason Scotland for example, even though there are plenty already due to their innate desire to see their name in lights :roll:
Why not try some yourself, annoying tw*t. :roll:Because I’m not trying desperately to impress people like you :roll:
No need to call me names either, bit childish :roll: All I did was point out that you said you wouldnt be coming on here until January after you’d caused a load of hassle ( again )
No skin off my nose whether you post on not but you’ve just proved again that all you can do is resort to insulting people if they don’t agree with you
Seems it was all about ££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££ for Ellington, and the likes of Roberts, Bullard etc later on. They tried the “please sir can I have some more trick with Whelan” after a good season and he wasnt having it as usual. Shame he couldn’t have been offered a decent rise to stay after all the goals he got but then his agent advised him terribly and Bryan Robson might have been a great player but he was an awful manager.
Ellington and Roberts would have been our Wright & Bright that first season, individually decent but combined they could have been unplayable, we didn’t do so bad without him but he didnt do his reputation no goodToo right, trying to get players to play free flowing football instead of hoofing it is utter gash, we need to be more direct
I suggest Roberto needs to get a couple of massive midfield stoppers, quick nippy lads on the wing and central players with good ball handling skills and an accurate goal kicker. We can then run through the opposition, shout ‘gerrum onside’ then boot it long and chase after it and block any forward runs by the opposition by getting three of our lot to take them out by dumping them head first in the turf. :roll: :roll: :roll:
On the other hand if another club was set up (as afc wimbledon were) i’m not sure I could support them despite them being my home town side as they aren’t the club i’ve supported through thick and thin for 15/16 years. I’d ‘follow’ them yes, but could I ‘support’ them? I’m not sure.I think that’s a bit harsh, Wimbledon had their club stolen from them. MK Dons are not Wimbledon, they’ve simply tried to take back what is theirs.
If Whelan or anyone moved the club out of Wigan, then they stop being Wigan Athletic and they can piss off. It’d be the only option to form another club, although the problem would be that there’s too many people about who’d talk about it but no-one would be prepared to put the work in
Bugger that did you see the price of tickets??
They should have let us season ticket holders in for free after they’ve been giving away cheap tickets to everyone else all season
Yes and one of mutty’s favourite phrases is: try and stay on topic
He starts one about Wigan Athletic’s global presence and then changes the subject to Sunderland’s crowds (because he was taking a hiding) :roll:
Wigan Athletic have already been acknowledged on the world stage many, many times. |The last of which was beating Chelsea which was reported all over the world and on the back page of nearly every major newspaper
I didn’t see you providing links for us all then mutty, which is strange seeing as you seem interested enough to start a new topic about Wigan Athletic’s newspaper coverage
No Spurs fans came on this site bragging about their 9-1 victory nor Blackpool, United or Arsenal fans either about their own wins
Maybe it’s because they are genuine fans happy with their own team’s performances and status and not obsessed with Wigan Athletic and hanging on everything the club does in an attempt to belittle it like our Sunderland friend…… :roll:
Re Warren Aspinall, it might have had summat to do with a phone call he made to the Brick whilst at Carlisle saying to Wigan’s lads ‘this is Warren Aspinall and i’m in the pub with Paul Dodd of the border city firm and we’re going to kick your fucking heads in when we come to wigan’ But for God’s sake Dave take your obsession with Mudhuts somewhere else. there’s some good lads associated with that fanzine that are Latics to the core Bagg, Bernard, JimmyT etc. there’s obviously one or two wind up merchants as well as there are on here but by eck they know how to push your buttons
after losing 9-1 at weekend, arent there more important things to worry about?
As a Wiganer, I would like you to do well, however I am realistic and know that if a foundation is laid properly, the house will eventually come crashing down. Your club needs to start developing players from scratch rather than buying imports and flogging them on at a profit, as for every jewel, there’ll be half a dozen turds.
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This bit may well be true (apart from the bit highlighted in bold which makes no sense whatsoever) and since Roberto has arrived he has been looking at improving the youth set up and bringing in a younger breed of player and has bought some young Spanish players into the youth set up. Bringing across young foreign lads doesn’t appear to have done Mr Wenger much harm. You’ll have to speak to the chairman about why we don’t have a youth academy, the £40k a week saved on Marlon King’s wages could probably fund one. Perhaps you’d like to ask him to satisfy your obsessive interest in all things Wigan Athletic and when you get an answer, let us all know?
I don’t really get your point about Internationals – as I said and you ignored, the whole country plays football and Wigan isn’t even one of the biggest 100 towns in the country to expect it to churn out internationals isn’t realistic. There’s a few players knocking around, Leon Osman, Andy Griffin, Chris Porter, you might be able to get a decent League One or Two outfit from Wigan based lads, which for the size of the town is about right. As for kids coming through, many of my mates grew up going to John Fisher in the early to mid 80s and the trouble is that the rugby league mafia simply wouldnt let kids play football, which is a terrible shame as lots of lads I know are handy footballers but were actively prevented from playing at school by maurice and his mates and fascist pe teachers. Encouraging kids to be good at a sport that encourages physical violence and probably is about as popular as Lacrosse or Curling on the national and international stage is a bit perverse in my view.
Don’t know whether it’s changed since in schools but as I said it’s not like rugby league where the majority of the country isn’t interested in it, there are many millions of people playing football up and down the country compared to a few thousand playing RL. Maybe now that the heavy local bias towards RL is receding this will be reflected in the town producing more footballers, and this should be enncouraged as top footballers are skilful, athletic and generate enormous wealth and pride for the community and national coverage and interest.
I don’t know how we’re expected to be so proud that we have that local lads represent the ‘country’ in a game which 95% of the country ignores. Football is competitive and there are a couple of million kids leaving school every year across the country aspiring of playing football for a living, compared to a few hundred from pit towns in the north who aspire to play rugby league.Football is a global game, the Premier League has global attraction and there are kids and young players all over South America now looking at our football club as an exciting prospect to develop their careers and local kids seek to emulate their idols, and maybe will do over time. Villareal in Spain have been doing it years, offering Latin American kids a way into La Liga and also picking up the scraps off the bigger clubs and offering them first team football and it’s not done them any harm.
