OFFICIAL FA CUP FIFTH ROUND: WIGAN ATHLETIC v MANCHESTER CITY MATCH THREAD

11th May 2013 will be the only day in a certain Lancashire town's history that rugby league was not its most important sport.

Wigan Athletic, whose Premier League stay of ad infinitum (8 years) was ended 3 days later, produced the biggest FA Cup final upset of the new millennium by beating Manchester City, who sacked Roberto Mancini on the same day as the Latics' relegation and subsequent yo-yoing to League 1.

Paul Cook's side have been impressive in the third tier, just a point off the top, but surely the Pep Guardiola juggernaut will completely obliterate them ...right?

Kick-off at 7:55pm UK time with coverage on BBC One from 7:30pm.

Wiggle: Walton, Byrne, Burn (c), Dunkley, Elder, Perkins, Roberts, Power, Powell, Massey, Grigg.
>Subs: Jones, Bruce, Jacobs, Hunt, James, Colclough, Fulton.

Al-Shittihad: Bravo, Danilo, Laporte, Stones, Delph, Fernandinho, D. Silva (c), Gundogan, Sane, B. Silva, Aguero.
>Subs: Ederson, Walker, Kompany, De Bruyne, Zinchenko, Foden, Diaz.

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no youth baka

Obviously don't want to fall into the same trap as Spurs.

City have had a week off, they have no reason to rest players

week off now, and week off after too. no reason to rest anyone, other than maybe injury worries cause the final is next.

still put in a cheeky fiver on Wigan.

delicious snapped legged city players

Can't wait for Pep to start crying and run off to spend £50 million on a new player as soon as one of those nasty Wigan lads looks at one of his players.

Fuck that Algerian Dutch cunt, this is the thread

why would anyone watch this

Watching Uni Challenge instead tbqh

Fuck all else to watch.

>Alex Bruce on the bench
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bumping for true thread, although the algerian will bump his own thread with the UK and US proxy he uses

Surprised Dan Burn stayed with Wigan after they last got relegated.

Much better than League 1.

>The Magic of the Emirates Cup

It’s cute how butthurt you guys get over Man City

>yfw Bobby Martinez wins the World Cup with Belgium, ultimately proving club > country

Reminder that that Cup Final was probably the biggest upset in about 30 years yet no one ever talks about it

So is this like the playoffs after the regular season aggregate?

nobody cares about either of them, that's why

didn't help that the final was woeful until watson's header

HIS NAME SOUNDS GOOD IN YOUR ER

Roberto Martinez speaks perfect English. The definition of absolute fluency of a foreign language.

>Bobby Martinez is going to ruin's De Bruyne's only chance of winning a World Cup

Good lad.

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You now remember when Antolin Alcaraz was at Everton and he was fucking shit.

comfy match thread

>Brunye not starting

Pep knows one of the English Wigan lads would snap him in half to raise England's chances at the WC.

>you now remember will grigg

stream:
streams.notahoneypot.me

>5'11
>6'

What happens in wigan?

>WILL GRIGG'S ON FIRE YOUR DEFENCE IS TERRIFIED going around France all summer
>never plays at the Euros
Bravo, Michael O'Neill.

nobody knows, it stays in wigan

eggchasing

Aguero's gonna get 10

Wiggles and Rugby League

Everyone is either a United, City or Rugby League fan.

AGUERO JUST GOT KNEECAPPED

>3 minutes gone
>studs up challenge already

Time for pep to complain more about sides tackling

Can't wait to see Real Madrid stomp City.

>still pretending that nick powell is good

Pep looking rough.

He's a League 1 standard player.

He carries the burden of all Catalonians

Anyone got a pic of Pep and that cabbage earlier?

Kappa do make some nice kits.

I wish we had more small manufactuers like that, rather than the boring identical Nike P.E kits everyone has.

>managing to be offside from the freekick
>wiggle

Sick donk mate
youtube.com/watch?v=tPpvu10ryys

>JOHNNY PEBBLES
WOW

THAT WAS FUCKING SHITE

Man City's defence is abysmal.

So THIS ... is the power of City

stormzy

Gary Roberts once called me a cunt during his time at Ipswich.

why, what did you do to him?

Whats with the seats tarped off?

City are only going to end up with the prem title aren't they?

why is jermain jenas on fucking everything at the moment i fucking hate him he offers zero insight.

>Shitty fans replying with "beating you when we were shit"

Are they retards? Obviously were fans after 2013 then.

>beating you when you were shit

Erm, should someone tell those plastic Arabs that Wigan beat them the season they were relegated and then literally again the season after when they were a championship club???

To make the ground look full. There's empty seats in the corners. The people of Wigan are either in the away end or sitting at home.

>The Magic of His Majesty Salman Al Saud's Emirates FA Cup, may Allah be praised
What did they mean by this?

>le based articulate black man see they can all be like that!!

>been closed for 7 years

>le unable to criticise spurs man

PUT A DONK ON IT

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City fans should thank Wigan for helping them win the league in 2012

>expecting City away fans to be anything other than cringe

was this the finest achievement of the chav era. i cant even remember if it was ironic or not

Don't forget Moyes as well.

Austerity innit

And that's why Nick Powell was sold to Wigan.

Genuinely the fullest I've ever seen the Dave Whelan's Broken Leg Memorial Stadium.

It's because of the massive electronic advert boards they bring in, same thing happens at stadiums like Anfield and Stamford Bridge in the Champions League

>man shitty are literally being outplayed by a league one side

>Dave Whelan's Broken Leg Memorial Stadium.
Sometimes I wish they got thumped in that final.

patricians choice is youtube.com/watch?v=7a5_WYP6U-M

i go sik and i got more tricks than a person who does black magic

United's Brave Nick Powell tearing these cunts apart.

Palace has electric advert boards on the other side as well , gets fucking annoying sitting in row 2

>Wigan are now in League 1

Wtf happened there

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Following Blackpool

I remember that account.

Is Wigan the only city in the UK where the rugby team is more popular than the soccer team?

>Heart

Lost it there lol

Can't wait for the annual CL meltdown where a Pep team concedes 3 goals in 10 minutes and gets dumped out.

We got mildly ridiculed for these small screens on the back being used to display chants. Fortunately now they just use them for giving out incorrect fixture information and such like.

Leicester desu

i went to school with nick powell

Blackburn too :(

>Is another episode on Twitter of Cancer city fans blaming bravo for anything

The butthurt still continues

football team is bigger, although the rugby team is more popular than most

did he smell?

Nah, a lot of the Rugby League teams are in places with no league football team (Wakefield, Widnes, St Helens, Castleford all come to mind).

And in rugby union Bath and Northampton are bigger than the lower league football teams there.

not that i remember

he is awful to be fair

>le no caps for France man
It hit his dick ffs.

he will prove all the haters wrong at the world cup

Anyone watch the bobsleigh finals today? Top entertainment.

That's what being white gets you these days.

This weather will kill him eventually