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I didn't even know Wigan had a football team until I was about 10. When I was 11 or 12 I was walking home from a rugby game with my Wigan shirt on, and a group of Latics fans were giving me all kinds of abuse, telling me to f**k off and calling me a scummy egg chasing b**t*rd.
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| Quote: the-Bowtun-Warrior "Now, adding this link isn't to fuel a 10page petty argument about the good and bad points of the two sporting clubs of Wigan
I'm genuinly interesting in the origin of individuals dislike (some say hatred) towards the lot that we share the PieDome with...
Mine, is a personal 'hatred'... Long story
But stumbling across this blog, got me wondering what's the opinion of the origin of the dislike?
The suggestion it's spawned from the ground ownership issue is mad isn't it?!
What's your opinion on this:
Just go on 'Cockney Latic' and read what they think of us, theirs seems to be written by people with real mental problems.
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The Latics never get to me much in the same way Wire don't. I've grown up with them beneath us in my opinion and I still see them that way. I actually feel sorry for them that they can't find a rival within their own sport and get embarrassed by Wigan fans who stoop to their level of bitterness.
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[quote="headhunter":lnxdgxk2]Union people are idiots. They almost universally accept that league is a better, faster game played by better athletes, yet for some reason they continue to disregard and belittle it. That game is tedious as hell from start to finish. If he'd ever played or even bothered to give more than a fleeting chance to league he would realise that the game is far more 'technical' than Union ever could be. Booting the ball into touch, scrummaging and forming rucks and mauls aren't areas that involve any skill, technique or mental capacity whatsoever. These are clumsy, outdated facets of the game that are also extremely uninteresting to watch and thus have to be defended in some way by people who are too prejudiced to see the truth.[/quote:lnxdgxk2]: |
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Quite simply look no further than here for a reason the two towns teams dont get on;
www.cockneylatic.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=6
Classic inferiority complex - You would expect a team threatened with relegation to be talking about their team, but no, there is literally more than 50% of the posts on this board that are Wigan RLFC related.
To them we're 'chubsters', 'fatty gravey stained elgren mongs' (love this one - who has seen anyone wearing anything with elgren on for 20 years), and we all come from 'scholes / whelley or somewhere out of town'. This depsite the fact latics are known for having a large spectator base from the surrounding areas of wigan rather than wigan itself,such as Skem, St Helens, Warrington!
They're that pathetic there is even a thread on there where they talk about Billy Boston as 'Billy Bostock'! This to me sums them up - 99.9% of the population of wigan know who Billy Boston is even if you are not a rugby fan due to his presence in the town, yet 100s of the tics fans will pretend they dont know who he is by deliberately mis-spelling his name and pretending they have never heard of him. such is their inferiority complex they pretend not to know these things to try and convince themseves that rugby is of no significance in this town. 
I know a few latics fans that aren't like this and so wouldnt want to generalise them all, but the truth is, and the truth behind the animosity is, 90% of latics fans are braindead morons!! |
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Quite simply look no further than here for a reason the two towns teams dont get on;
www.cockneylatic.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=6
Classic inferiority complex - You would expect a team threatened with relegation to be talking about their team, but no, there is literally more than 50% of the posts on this board that are Wigan RLFC related.
To them we're 'chubsters', 'fatty gravey stained elgren mongs' (love this one - who has seen anyone wearing anything with elgren on for 20 years), and we all come from 'scholes / whelley or somewhere out of town'. This depsite the fact latics are known for having a large spectator base from the surrounding areas of wigan rather than wigan itself,such as Skem, St Helens, Warrington!
They're that pathetic there is even a thread on there where they talk about Billy Boston as 'Billy Bostock'! This to me sums them up - 99.9% of the population of wigan know who Billy Boston is even if you are not a rugby fan due to his presence in the town, yet 100s of the tics fans will pretend they dont know who he is by deliberately mis-spelling his name and pretending they have never heard of him. such is their inferiority complex they pretend not to know these things to try and convince themseves that rugby is of no significance in this town.
I know a few latics fans that aren't like this and so wouldnt want to generalise them all, but the truth is, and the truth behind the animosity is, 90% of latics fans are braindead morons!! | |
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Even with me supporting Warrington, some of these posts make me laugh:
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Its typical small town mentality, where the gene pool is a tad on the shallow side, and simply highlights the dangers of marrying yer cousin!
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| Quote: BillyRhino "Its typical small town mentality, where the gene pool is a tad on the shallow side, and simply highlights the dangers of marrying yer cousin!'"
Just leave the Royal Family out of this, Big sh...City Boy. |
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Oh dear oh lord.... Those people really do need help.... They have a MASSIVE inferiority complex.
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That's......painful reading.
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I've known quite a few Latics fans over the years and they all like Rugby League..........but,bizzarely,every single one of them said they support St Helens.
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The hatred, for me, comes from two things. Im a Crewe Alex fan and Latics used to play dirty when they were in the same league (even kicking one of our players in the face) and always got away with it all for some reason. I therefore hated them. They then got promoted and I forgot they existed for a while until 2008 when we were kicked out to Widnes that time and the hatred was reignited.
And the other reason is because I have a friend who started to go watching them in 2006 (convenient timing ey?) and everytime I see him he says "when you lot gonna get off our pitch and stop wrecking it for us" this persistent blame for ruining the pitch is perhaps the most annoying part of it as we clearly do not ruin the pitch (considering it was ruined over winter when we hadnt used it!) but the idiots at the latics still blamed us for that!
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[quote="headhunter":lnxdgxk2]Union people are idiots. They almost universally accept that league is a better, faster game played by better athletes, yet for some reason they continue to disregard and belittle it. That game is tedious as hell from start to finish. If he'd ever played or even bothered to give more than a fleeting chance to league he would realise that the game is far more 'technical' than Union ever could be. Booting the ball into touch, scrummaging and forming rucks and mauls aren't areas that involve any skill, technique or mental capacity whatsoever. These are clumsy, outdated facets of the game that are also extremely uninteresting to watch and thus have to be defended in some way by people who are too prejudiced to see the truth.[/quote:lnxdgxk2]: |
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What a shame they're not intelligent enough to take a step back and realise they are just compounding the issue, and making themselves look even more thick!!
None of them will take any of this on board though, and it will somehow be our fault as we are all ‘chubsters’ and ‘big fat sweaty mongs’ with ‘18 stone female rugby fans’
If they weren't so hostile towards the rugby they may get a few thousand floating rugby fans through the gates each week and then not get the P155 poor crowds that the country micky take every weekend, but unfortunately they're intent on alienating everyone!
I'd love to do an IQ test on the whole of cockney latic....is there a brain cell between them? All I can say to this imbecile is at least we have female fans in our sport, unlike wendyball, where most female fans are to frightened to go due to testosterone fuelled morons wanting to beat each other up simply because nothing interesting is happening on the pitch! MORONS! |
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Some Wigan RL fan mates of mine were going to get a half season ticket for the 2008-2009 season and then carry on from thereon in before Whelan kicked us out and they now hate Latics too. DW really has as few brain cells as their fans doesnt he?
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I was kind of neutral on the whole thing. It's football. The sport where men act like children and get paid millions for doing it. However, I don't like Dave Whelan so I naturally want him to spend a lot of money on the Latics and see them fail. Nothing personal against Latics. If he sold them, I'd go back to treating them with the same apathy I treat football in general.
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