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3 minutes ago, Casino said:

@tomskiwe have been here before and you're wasting your time

leigh, horwich types live amongst em and think wigan bother us lot like they bother them

they never will

And you manc / bury types think they are insignificant. 
 

both are wrong and it’s Tranmere who are the cunts

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Either way it is a bit shit we dont have a traditional bona-fide rival like your Blackpool/Preston, Burnley/Blackburns.

Wigans the closest we will ever get as for them its only us.

Shame really becasue a good derby is everything what ace about proper footy.

It is what it is like.

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1 minute ago, gonzo said:

Either way it is a bit shit we dont have a traditional bona-fide rival like your Blackpool/Preston, Burnley/Blackburns.

Wigans the closest we will ever get as for them its only us.

Shame really becasue a good derby is everything what ace about proper footy.

It is what it is like.

See I’ve grown to like that we seem to be well up on peoples lists. Not the number 1 sort of thing but sit in everyone’s top few. I remember there was a survey on this of some degree maybe 90s or 2000s and we seemed to do highly well on irritating many😂

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1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Of course, until the companies need to start upping their prices ever more to cover lost customers. Which means more lost customers. 

When viewing numbers start dropping in big numbers then advertisers start twitching. 

It would be remiss of any of them to rest on the laurels.

Course 

But so long as sky are showing football folk are watching 

And so long as folk as watching the advertiser's will pay 

Sky would much rather you watch their games on sky than on dodgy 

Which is why they'll happily knock £x off a month when you say You're leaving  

But regardless folk are still watching

They've just paid £7bn for football 

Because they'll make more than that back, probably 

So don't mind me if I think fuck that I'm paying £60 a year instead 

I don't think anyone will notice 

I've been doing this since dodgy itv digital boxes in 2000  

And the TV deals keep going up in value

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1 hour ago, Casino said:

@tomskiwe have been here before and you're wasting your time

leigh, horwich types live amongst em and think wigan bother us lot like they bother them

they never will

 

1 hour ago, Casino said:

Fwiw, ive known one wigan fan in my life

Very, VERY few in Leigh. Although I know a few Latics fans (naturally given my work history), I only know four through living locally, and even then only one is from Leigh (one Hindley Green, one Tyldesley and one Atherton). When we were at school, it was a running joke that there were more Huddersfield fans there than Latics (and 100% factual too)

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My other half's grandpa was a big Blackpool fan. Bless her cottons but she grew up in Durham and her holidays were in Blackpool for 5 weeks every year. 

He was never that bother about Bolton, thought we were a nice sort who they liked to beat, but other than waaay back, really not bothered.

Wigan, Backburn and Tranmere for me.

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36 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Either way it is a bit shit we dont have a traditional bona-fide rival like your Blackpool/Preston, Burnley/Blackburns.

Wigans the closest we will ever get as for them its only us.

Shame really becasue a good derby is everything what ace about proper footy.

It is what it is like.

We might not have one stand out rival, but there's an edge to quite a few of our derbies - all the Lancashire teams, Wigan etc - and throw in the teams we rarely play eg United, Bury, Oldham.  Even throw in a bit of Lancs/Yorkshire rivalry which can be decent fixtures.

Some clubs have one big rival (Ipswich/Norwich; Pompey/Southampton etc) but have no other local derbies to break up the monotony of the routine fixtures.  

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47 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

 

Very, VERY few in Leigh. Although I know a few Latics fans (naturally given my work history), I only know four through living locally, and even then only one is from Leigh (one Hindley Green, one Tyldesley and one Atherton). When we were at school, it was a running joke that there were more Huddersfield fans there than Latics (and 100% factual too)

You are lying. Leigh is full of Wigan fans

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Just now, Casino said:

I live nearer city, united, rochdale, bury, blackburn and oldham than wigan

Its another world

They even speak a different language

But the ground (and the new estate) is a stones throw.

Loads of younger bolton fans are growing up there (like my nephews) and they really don't like Wigan.

 

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8 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Yup - was in Wigan with a client 3 months ago, leigh is Wigan through and through

They even changed their rugby kit to match wigans. Proper love Wigan them Leyther’s 

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1 minute ago, Big E said:

They even changed their rugby kit to match wigans. Proper love Wigan them Leyther’s 

Was driving back to the folks and at Wigan 'rush hour' I saw a bloke piss himself and then had to drive through those god awful shit places before you finally get to the roundabout and you're on home turf.

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5 hours ago, L/H White said:

why on earth are people spunking a tenner a match when every game is on IPTV 

This will be on Blackpool ifollow

The Wways elite earn £150k a year, so what’s a tenner every now and again?

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5 minutes ago, Wanderlust said:

Cambridge have Peterborough and I hope they stuff them on Saturday.

That is the big game for Cambridge, they rested a couple midweek because of the game, including the lad who got sent off. (According to my mate who is a Cambridge fan)

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8 hours ago, Burndens Bogs said:

I’ve lived on the outskirts of Wigan for 8 years and i’ve only ever met one Wigan fan.

Seen a few kids with very old Wigan shirts on.

think i've met two;

one at an old workplace when they were promoted- congratulated him for him to tell me how much they hate us; completely baffled

the other at a party where he mocked us for not winning anything since the days of black and white... until i pointed out they didnt even exist in the days of black and white. he left shortly afterwards

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Throughout my career I occasionally had to work at Wigan Fire Station. In a station of 64 people, I knew one single WAFC fan. Every other who claimed to be a sports fan was rugby, not all Wigan. Apparently a lot to do with “doing what your dad did’.

The one football fan was actually a Lithuanian lad who came over here as a schoolboy and obviously got in with the wrong crowd [or more likely, person]

 

 

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