If we were to go bust it should be front page news of every sports media outlet on the planet. We finished 13th in arguably one of the top five most competitive, most watched leagues in the world last season. Only in 2013 we won the FA Cup and were a European football club. We average around 10k home fans. With respect to the likes of Bury, Halifax and Telford, we’d surely be the biggest club to go bust in this country for a generation. Probably the biggest in the world since Parma in Italy went bust in 2015.
The sad thing is that it wouldn’t be. We wouldn’t even make the first story on Sky Sports News or the first story on the back of the newspapers. We’d be second behind what Jadon Sancho had for tea the previous night. Football in this country is dead beyond the big six and the sooner they fuck off to their European Super League and leave the rest to fend for themselves in England the better!
wow so why should we be on the front page of anything other than the observer.
Ill say it if no one else will, everyone knows we couldnt sustain a higher lge place without some rich boke and his family funding us.
When Whelan bought the club we had 1500 at most games and that was an inflated figure, we was less than shit playing at a crrap ground, the next few years we was in a ground to big for us and a ground we couldnt fill if we added the rugby crowd combined. We got in the prem and still lost money most seasons.
He did us great by leaving latics debt free and sold the club for a lot less than the club was worth on assests but was costing a million a month to fund
No matter what we won and achieved it was artificially bank rolled, look at blackburn look at bolton we are the same.
I love latics i really do and for over 45 years, but for ferks sake get real we have had the good years and now we are back where we was prior to whelan on our arse, no news here.
Yes we finished 13th we had a really good manager that built at least 2 squads in 3 years, but that asnt enough for most on here and as i was told loads of times he was a manager 90% wanted sacked and i got banned from the site for sticking up for him and when he left a lot on here slagged him off for being a coward and called Paul crook.
we support the club but have perspective no one else gives a shit