jimmyc

We just don’t seem to be playing well enough at the moment to beat Arsenal. Think the whining gooners just might nick it..

Bleedin ell, my line up needs a complete rethink then… Who has Kiernan played for?
What happened to Mclean for him to be on crutches?

Er, it wasn’t an argument, just a reply to his question. Understand there will be as many who have heard of us as there is who have not. This guy and his son knew a fair bit about the prem, but mainly the bigger clubs.[/quote]

Nail on the head for me Jimmy, Utd and Liverpool are global brands and sell the Premier League along with maybe a few more clubs. I wonder if a European Super League was born and our big clubs left
the PL, how many countries would still show an interest?. Fans in places like China want to see United, Liverpool etc not the rest of the clubs in the league. Its the big boys not the division that is the attraction.[/quote]

That wasn’t quite the question though, was it? The original question was about whether people around the world knew about Wigan because of them being in the Premier League or winning the FA Cup. I used to travel the world with work and not one person had heard of Wigan pre-2005 but once we were in the Premier League everywhere I went they had heard of us. (Except Bulgaria, for some reason. The guys there hadn’t heard of us at all. But then again, I hadn’t heard of Varna before I had to go there.)

I suspect that even more now know about us because of the FA Cup win, but to say we weren’t known around the world from our time in the Prem is just wrong. Oh, and my sample was much bigger than JimmyC’s holiday Athetico fan ;)[/quote]

Pmsl… Well my comment was purely harmless, and whether it be my one example or jet set Griff lifestyle example, they had not heard if Wigan Athletic!
My work occasionally takes me off to foreign lands, Scotland! Was talking to a Dundee Utd fan as recently as December, and he asked me what league were Wigan in…. Suppose that backs up GL’s comment about foreign supporters supporting just their team :)

I’d go with strongest possible team for both matches. The teams around us are dropping points, and if Burnley do capitulate we need to make sure we capitalise. It will be tough against Arsenal and a game we just might lose regardless of who we put out?

Funny because you would expect most European footballing nations to have heard of Wigan, what with us being in the prem for 8yrs & winning the FA Cup. Was talking with an Athletico Madrid fan on holiday last summer and he had never heard of us :) my overall football knowledge ain’t the best but I knew more about Athletico than he knew about us. I had to tell him about our recent exploits, he had heard of man city though!

Answer to the question, both for me…

We’ve struggled all season against the teams at the lower end of the table. Especially when they chase us down giving no time on the ball.. Points on the board is the main thing, but performance is also needed so let’s hope we improve. If we play like that against the gooners they will tonk us!

Depends on the team Uwe picks, if he starts Powell & Callum then we have every chance of picking up three points.

Gonna be a tough one tonight, but we seem to play better against the top teams so will predict a win. Four out of their five defeats have been away so let’s hope we make it six.