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The damage was done to Wigan in the late 1970s and early 1980’s when all the heavy industry i.e coal pits ,factories and cotton mills shut their doors.The town was left with bugger all like most towns in the north and a generation was displaced by the inevitable mass unemployment that resulted.
The person responsible for a lot of that was Margaret Thatcher and her dreadful policies that affected large swathes of the North and turned places into ghost towns and created the enormous underclass that exists today living on benefits and creating vicious circle that results.The people you refer to probably would have worked in the above industries but with no investment to give this group some work what choice have they got? I am no lover of this government and will certainly not be voting Labour especially if some middle class career politician gets the labour seats here-f@ckin disgrace that.Only investment from central government will sort out Wigan and give some hope lost forever nearly 30 years ago.Brenda and Dave need a @@@@ing busy day monday on that showing.
Dreadful finishing today-got what we deserved
Everton without a doubt-always a highlight and the first time it has fell on a saturday!
Proper old fashioned football club with decent passionate supporters and i have a good feeling it might be our day.
Contrast that with the Notts county replay two bored apathetic teams ‘trying’ to win the ‘prize’ of playing Dulham away and a probable defeat.So what if they get in the home seats?
It used to happen in the old days when the chances of receiving a slap were far greater than today.I remember PNE coming int the home areas at springfield in the dreadful mid nineties when they were doing well.I dont remember any trouble and they scored at the death(Kilbane i think) although the usual stuff happened near the train station.
My Dad was an Evertonian who moved up here like most scousers to escape that dreadful city and bring his kids up in a better area.Loads of Evertonians in the Wigan area so most of them will be locals anyway.
As long as they keep stum what is the problem?Crazy question !:o
The longer the club stays in the top flight the bigger it becomes and the stronger it becomes.More kids in the future will latch on to us instead of the other local clubs and eventually take their own kids when they grow up.
Relegation is unthinkable for a club our size and the results of this would be far reaching in my view .
Bradford city are a perfect example of what can happen when a small club loses its top flight status.
Be careful what you wish for.I dont agree with everything he says/does but to come out with that comment is crazy…can people not see the bigger picture with Whelan, that instead of having a very good chance of making it through to the FA Cup 5th round tomorrow and enjoying our 5th Premier League season, without Whelan we would have been in the Conference North or something and probably be playing someone like Fleetwood Town (no disrepect) tomorrow.Good post
Lets get real!
Premier League for 5 years and a trip to a major cup final or extinction?
It would have happened believe me because the club was on its @rse before he arrived-crowds at 1800 if we were lucky.Two generations of youngsters now support Latics and the club will be strong for years to come because of this.I heard the cliquey pundits on sky a couple of weeks ago saying he is the type to take them to the next level-with his Harrods bag eh?. :lol:
Come on though we love him really especially when he admitted sometime ago he regularly raids the fridge at home :oBest laugh i have had this month -how desperate are they up at Dull City? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
It isnt the cost that kept me away and im absolutely sure the club would have dropped the price if it could have done .it is the lack of interest shown in this once great knockout competion by the top clubs in the PL.It has been going on for years especially since the big money came into the game at the top end and im sick and tired of it.
The FA cup has been totally devalued and i noticed an article in the press with a picture of the Latics game highlighting this point so the stayaways obviously touched a nerve.
This was once a great knockout and has been won many times by underdogs (West Ham 1980(div 2) Southampton 1976(div 2) Sunderland 1973(div 2) )but it is now dominated by the big(yawnnnnnnnn) four.
I like many Wiganers thought b@llocks to it and before anyone calls me a JCL my first game was in the 1978-79 season.The FA cup has had its day and TV and money are killing it off -VERY VERY SAD.In my opinion i thought the admission price was too high for a competion that is essentially treated as reserve fixtures by the PL clubs these days.
A more reasonable £10 for adults and a £2 for kids may have bumped up the attendance to 9 or 10,000 as it was the price worked out dearer than my east stand PREM season ticket (£13per match).
I wasnt surprised at the gate.
