<t>Are you deliberately spelling 'Latics' wrongly? Is it meant to be funny, like 'Wendyball' which is often hilariously bandied about by the shining wits on here?<br/> <br/> I'm not sure what relevance of where each club's supporters comes from is, but I can assure you that Warriors fans travel from...

<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Truly outstanding. I bet they had to put on a special exhibition for that lot at the National Football Museum. Tell us some more. Loved the bit about 70 years worth of cup runs & league championships. That brought a chuckle & brightened up an otherwise drab day at the...

I'm here to counteract the over-inflated opinion you have of yourselves. And to answer back your many negative posts about Wigan Athletic FC.

Now, seeing as we're all playing nicely, did you do the Google search? Willing now to concede that point about 'international renown'?

<t>Once again, a repeat of the myth that Latics "bought" their way into the Premiership. We've spent very little compared to, say, Cardiff City. Selling the likes of Roy Carroll, Nathan Ellington, Jason Roberts, Pascal Chimbonda and Jimmmy Bullard has broughrt im more than £10m. One more season in ...

<t>No history. What a cretinous insult.<br/> <br/> Here's one tiny except from Latics' history. Naturally, there's 70 years of cup runs, giant killings, league championships, Wembley wins and 60-goal-a-season heroes to choose from, as well as the bad times, the 25 years of applying for election to t...

Dude, you are so wrong. Put your search in inverted commas so that it finds the exact words.

"Wigan Athletic" = 1,210.000
v
"Wigan Warriors" = 127,000

No further questions, your honour.

<t>What I meant in saying I am biased was that coming from Wigan I'm bound to have heard of more rugby league players than the average Joe.<br/> <br/> But you're right, I've head of Boston, Hanley, Gregory and Robinson, too. Never heard of this Frano Botica fella, though. Honest.<br/> <br/> So is th...

<t>If you want to check that worldwide renown, I suggest you subscribe to NewsNow and look for stories about Wigan Athletic. News of every match report is carried from Australia to Zimbabwe. The other week I watched the Newcastle game live on Serbian TV and I've lost count of the number of times we'...

<r>Some joker called Jimmy Birtis wrote<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>The only problem is that whearas we are steeped in history and would struggle to choose between a long list of luminaries Latics have no history whatsoever and are consigned to picking names of people who used to wash the kit when the...

<t>So, Warriors struggle for crowds in comparisn to Latics because the media brainwash everyone into watching football?<br/> <br/> Sorry, but I've had 20 years of nothing but rugby league rammed down my throat in the Wigan Oberver, Evening Post and Reporter. If the Warriors lot visit a hospital or t...