It would seem that the novelty of top flight football has well and truly worn off. You could always expect the Man U game to sell out, so the 18K attendance is shocking (esp with 6K from United).

Whelan must be doing his nut!

Theres never a time when there on tv we dont get a mention.

18k for the visit of man u! Looks like wigan is solidly cherry

Paul Scholes was in possession and was shielding the ball from a defender, he ended up by pushing the player in the face.

The referee didn't see it, in football it's a foul, in rugby it's just a hand off. The Aussies would call it a don't argue.

The commentator suggested that it wouldn't have been out of place in a Wigan Warriors fixture

His tone of voice did not sound negative. I'd take it as a complement from a sport were you usually see players rolling around on the floor clutching their faces just because someone breathes on them

It has only actually sold out once since they came into the Premership. Twas in 2008 when Utd won the league in the last game of the season. So that'll be once in five attempts.

This is a sample of some of the drivel spoken on that Latics forum:

"I'm not sure where you are from but the schools couldn't have been very good judging by your punctuation and sentence structure

80% of Wigan Athletic fans are from Wigan
61% of Wigan Warriors fans are from Wigan

so if anyone has got fans from Skem it is more likely to be Wigan Warriors

On a Wigan Athletic matchday the bridge over the canal is clogged up. On a Wigan Rugby matchday, the roads are clogged up, the reason being that your fans drive to the games, ours walk it because they live in the area. Wigan Athletic do not bus in hundreds of Amateur League clubs in on matchdays from out of town to try and keep up with their neighbours, nor do they give a whole stand away to sponsors to avoid getting a sub 10k crowd

Now get back to the third world board with all the other fat dinosaurs telling LIES about our football club because you can't accept the truth, you've already been run off here twice with facts and reasoned argument, in fact you came out with a load of racist drivel last time if I recall

Climb back under your rock, no doubt we'll see you again in a month when the thread has disappeared "

I dont know the last time "ScholesControl" went to a Warriors match but the canal bridge is always full after the game with large queues.

so like their owns fans say their marketing is ....I also remember heinz "buying" the stand not being given to them.

And there was thousands of Man Utd fans scattered around in the East and West stands. I was there too, it was shocking. I wasn't even in colours, and nobody around me was either, but Latics fans though we were United fans and kept turning round spitting at us and hurling abuse. Anybody that they guessed to be united fans ended up getting jumped on. I've never seen so many fights in my life!

There Pathetic

I have nothing at all against wigan athletic the club.they have done this town proud. its just a real shame there supported by a bunch of jokes and embarressments. Not all i should say but many

there were quite a few in the town centre pubs as well.

King street was devoid of bouncers, they were all in harrys bar trying to "deal with it".
police everywhere..........ffs......im glad i support my local rugby league team , and not the footy one.

ps......why are we obsessed with posting about latics on here???

Utter B*llocks

Could be true

80% of 10000

or

61% of 20000

what we get when we play our close rivals with a big following

It's not as low as 61% but it's fair to say that some of our fanbase comes from far and wide (1 bloke flies from Cyprus for every game ) but that is certainly not a negative thing. I was chatting to a Wigan fan from California in the Black Bull before the Stains game the other week, American accent n' all

We have a broad appeal that Plastics can only dream of and long may it continue.