0% Villa: Wigan Athletic fans upset about signposts

[Chris Harte]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/oct/12/super-league-champion-sign-wigan

Can't help thinking they're getting a bit uppity myself. Anyone agree?

[Simba]

Pathetic. Childish. This whole USA imported PC nonsense is crackers. Discrimination? Come on FGS.

[BannedUserIAT]

How very small-time of them. I'm not sure if the rugby league boys would get equal billing if Wigan won the premiership. In fact, i'm sure they'd be left completely in the dark.
 
This is the sort of thing I'd expect of the porn-peddlers  when they were in residence  at the sty.

[Yossarian]

Welcome to Wigan, home of division three ice-hockey, super league chess and premiership tiddlywinks.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

There hardly likely to put welcome to Wigan home of a making up the numbers premiership team and the best pies north of Watford. You would think folk would have better things to complain about.

[Risso]

I lived in Wigan for years, and the football and rugby fans can't stand each other.  It stems mainly from the fact that for most of their history when the Latics were a lower league club playing in front of small crowds at Springfield Park, the egg chasers were winning everything in sight.  Wigan was a "rugby town" and most football fans supported one of the Liverpool or Manchester teams.

Then Dave Whelan bought both teams, and the rise of the football team to the Premier League coincided with a dip in fortunes for the rugby team in the Super League era, so naturally the former got the blame for the latter's relative lack of success.

The rugby fans are also perceived to be from the roughest areas of Wigan, and so there's an element of the Villa's disdain for Blues' fans there as well.  At the old rugby ground, Central Park, you could see into it if you stood on a bridge on a nearby bypass on the A49, so that became affectionately known as the "DHSS Stand".

[Concrete John]

Don't these people have anything better to do with their time?

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

The rugby fans are also perceived to be from the roughest areas of Wigan, and so there's an element of the Villa's disdain for Blues' fans there as well. 

As an outsider looking in Wigan doesn’t appear to have anything but rough area’s.

[Risso]

The rugby fans are also perceived to be from the roughest areas of Wigan, and so there's an element of the Villa's disdain for Blues' fans there as well. 

As an outsider looking in Wigan doesn’t appear to have anything but rough area’s.

That's because to get to the ground from the M6 or the train station, you're only going to see the rougher areas, the same as you would driving through Aston to get to Villa Park.  There are some really nice parts, like where my in-laws live, which would be more on a par with somewhere like Sutton Coldfield.

[darren woolley]

How sad getting upset over a signpost.

[Risso]

Reading it again, it seems that the upset was caused because the council took away the old signs that mentioned both the rugby AND the football team, and replaced them with ones that just mentioned the Warriors winning Super League.

[LeeB]

How sad getting upset over a signpost.

 

[dave.woodhall]

The rugby fans are also perceived to be from the roughest areas of Wigan,

As opposed to?

[kipeye]

Maybe if the football team ever wins anything -they could have a sign?

[MarkM]

How about this sign put up on the entrance to Birmingham

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2506/signwy.jpg