Ten years after winning the FA Cup, Wigan are probably feeling lucky just to exist. twoht looks at a rollercoaster club.
Ten years after winning the FA Cup, Wigan are riding their luck by avoiding a tailspinIn the decade since they beat Manchester City in the cup final, Wigan have been relegated five times, won League One three times and been in administration.It only took three days.
If the ten years since then have proved anything, it’s that Wigan Athletic still don’t quite seem to know which division theybe in. Or, to perhaps put it slightly differently, that for their supporters the relative tranquillity of a mid-table season is something that happens to other clubs.
the club, stadium and training facilities to the Hong Kong-based International Entertainment Corporation for £22m. The announcement was made 13 days after the end of the 2017/18 season which had seen Wigan win the second of their three post-Premier League titles. Dark rumours started to circulate that the club had been the victim of some sort of sting. A secret recording of a conversation between a fan and EFL chair Rick Parry had found Parry claiming that the league were aware of suspicious betting patterns on Wigan getting relegated.
Coming on top of the expulsion of Bury less than a year earlier and the collapse of Macclesfield Town, who folded in the middle of September 2020 – just weeks after falling out of League Two – it was a period when it felt as though precious few lessons had been learnt.
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