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I think that is very true, our fans did stick with the team, but - and this is the important bit - the way supporters treat their side is in large part influenced by what went before. For example, I can say that last year under McFuck was the most unremittingly depressing, negative, shameful mess of a season. There's a reason we dropped almost 10k season ticket holders over one summer, too - lots of people saw it coming, and couldn't believe we'd set ourselves up for that. Given the grimness of the man who preceeded him, Lambert has had more support as manager than anyone I can ever remember - certainly for a manager who has us not safe with a week to go. Yes, the supporters buy into the side and there's a close bond between them, players and manager, but you can't ignore the effect of last season. The same thing goes for you. You had a great season last year, got lots and lots of plaudits (certainly, our fans were dripping with jealousy at the time), and signed some really exciting players. What you've been served up this season, by comparison, is effectively a plate of cold dog shit. You have every single right to be annoyed about it - as you've seen how last season went. You are comparing what happened last season and what has happened this, and the disparity is immense, so big that someone quite obviously has dropped a season long sequence of bollocks. I'm not surprised you want him out.

Shit the bed, Mike Ashley and his fucking holistics AGAIN.

No chance you lot are going down Brummie. All is good Yeah, I know. It's nuts that we are on such a good run, yet still not safe *shits self a bit*

There's no way Wigan will win tomorrow. They might have won the cup, but I reckon pretty much everyone would have beaten City, they were so totally unarsed. If you want a more representative view of Wigan, you need to look at matches like theirs last week with Swansea, and the sort of comedy defending they've shown all year. There's a reason they're on 35 points. plus, if Wigan win tomorrow, i will vomit up at least one of, and possibly both, my kidneys.

In fairness, i did say pretty much everyone, but yes, I noticed that, too. The point i was really making was re whether they can even segregate that stand if they decide they want to.

They won't be able to sell that stand out, I suspect, as there probably isn't the option of segregating it. Doesn't pretty much everyone get 5000 cheap tickets for Wigan, and sell them all? They've probably never thought of segregating it.

I don't think they are, I think it's just something Sky have been saying to big it up. Brighton is pretty much just a London town because of the sheer amount of Londoners going there for day trips and weekends. It goes back to the 70s man and has nothing to do with location. Wasn't it originally something to do with a player for one of the sides getting his leg snapped in this fixture? Something like that - I seem to recall it was absolutely nothing to do with location, and entirely about something relatively trivial. I fucking hate Palace. It's a shit hole of a ground, and even if you go there from elsewhere in London, it takes fucking ages to get there.

Interesting that Wigan always offer 5.5k tickets to away sides, but for our match there this week, Whelan has decided to cap it at 3k.

Speaking as a fan of another club which, like yourselves, was around the arse end of the league in January, the consensus amongst us was that you strengthened considerably in January and had effectively spent enough to get yourselves out of trouble. In fact, you were pretty much discounted from the relegation fight by us the day the January window closed. The fact Pardew managed to have you not safe until a week before the end of the season is pretty poor from him.

I am having a few quid on Albion to go down next year. They've had their excitement of finishing above us, and I firmly expect them to launch on to another spell of thirty years finishing below us. Their results in recent weeks have been terrible, plus their best striker doesn't belong to them.

From the outside looking in, it's hard to see how a manager can go from a season like last, to a season like this, and not get the bullet

So, basically, if you want Sunderland to go down, you are guilty of my MURDER.

Nah. Wigan or Sunderland now. Beautiful See, personally, I'd rather it was Sunderland, as it'd stain that cuntbubble MON's record, and their fans, if you go by RTG, are utter mongs. The problem is that, that requires Wigan to beat Arsenal on Tuesday, which would induce a fatal coronary in me prior to next weekend.

I watched bits of your match today and could only think of you lot, shaking like shitting puppies towards the end, as it seemed it was all QPR. Anyway, I told you you'd beat them and that was all you'd need to do, you massive bunch of fannies. I've spent much of the evening talking to a mate who is convinced we're going down. We're not.

Someone on Blue Moon summed it up quite well when they said that they showed today that they are still miles away from being a big club as opposed to a club with a load of money. That's very well put indeed.

I thought City's performance today was as good an example of a team of mercenaries not giving a flying fuck as I have ever seen. Shocking.

Putting weight on is a side effect of the treatment by all accounts. He's in remission, which doesn't mean he's cured, but it means he's on the way at least.

Shut the fuck up Clive, you fucking moron.

It's in Europe already mate. Have you been to Bradford. It's pratically in another continent. It's certainly in another century.

The FA don't help by doing shit like playing it on a day when there are other games, and shifting it to 5.15. Yet more slaps in the face after years of whittling away at the importance of the cup (allowing teams to sit it out, for example). Look how many empty seats there are in that middle level. It's a disgrace.

Arsenal absolutely MUST beat Wigan on Tuesday for their own reasons. There's no way this lot are going to play in this cup final today and then manage to go to the Emirates three days later and get anything.

Struggling to remember the last time a side looked as uninterested in being in the FA Cuo final as Man City do today. Anyway, 120 minutes, penalties and a dispiriting defeat for Wigan, please.

We are so volatile this season, we could win this now, or lose it 1-5 still.

So did I last season. Most depressing season I remember and I remember us going down in 86-7

I have no idea whatsoever how this game will pan out. I know we're not mathematically safe, but I've woken up today on a match day without that nervous knot in my stomach for the first time in months. Lichaj is shit, though, clearly not good enough. That much I will say.