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.
Obviously don't want to fall into the same trap as Spurs.
Tyler Reed
City have had a week off, they have no reason to rest players
Cameron Stewart
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.
Dominic Gray
delicious snapped legged city players
Ethan Hill
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.
Gary Roberts once called me a cunt during his time at Ipswich.
Ian Wilson
why, what did you do to him?
Adam Martin
Whats with the seats tarped off?
Joseph Cruz
City are only going to end up with the prem title aren't they?
Christopher Garcia
why is jermain jenas on fucking everything at the moment i fucking hate him he offers zero insight.
Wyatt Rodriguez
>Shitty fans replying with "beating you when we were shit"
Are they retards? Obviously were fans after 2013 then.
Nathan Bailey
>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???
Brandon Allen
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.
Julian Allen
>The Magic of His Majesty Salman Al Saud's Emirates FA Cup, may Allah be praised What did they mean by this?
Luis Lopez
>le based articulate black man see they can all be like that!!
City fans should thank Wigan for helping them win the league in 2012
Julian Hughes
>expecting City away fans to be anything other than cringe
Easton Sullivan
was this the finest achievement of the chav era. i cant even remember if it was ironic or not
Bentley Diaz
Don't forget Moyes as well.
Landon Diaz
Austerity innit
Austin Garcia
And that's why Nick Powell was sold to Wigan.
Anthony Bennett
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
Andrew Ward
>man shitty are literally being outplayed by a league one side
Nathan Lee
>Dave Whelan's Broken Leg Memorial Stadium. Sometimes I wish they got thumped in that final.
i go sik and i got more tricks than a person who does black magic
Joseph Ramirez
United's Brave Nick Powell tearing these cunts apart.
Grayson Foster
Palace has electric advert boards on the other side as well , gets fucking annoying sitting in row 2
Cooper Anderson
>Wigan are now in League 1
Wtf happened there
Dylan Phillips
...
Ayden Sanchez
Following Blackpool
Christian Rodriguez
I remember that account.
Julian Torres
Is Wigan the only city in the UK where the rugby team is more popular than the soccer team?
Jackson Gonzalez
>Heart
Lost it there lol
Jaxson Thomas
Can't wait for the annual CL meltdown where a Pep team concedes 3 goals in 10 minutes and gets dumped out.
Jordan Moore
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.
Josiah Clark
Leicester desu
Nathan Morris
i went to school with nick powell
Elijah Peterson
Blackburn too :(
Anthony Nguyen
>Is another episode on Twitter of Cancer city fans blaming bravo for anything
The butthurt still continues
James Bell
football team is bigger, although the rugby team is more popular than most
Adrian Taylor
did he smell?
Blake Evans
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.
Levi Reyes
not that i remember
Lucas Hall
he is awful to be fair
Matthew Martinez
>le no caps for France man It hit his dick ffs.
Gabriel Morris
he will prove all the haters wrong at the world cup
Samuel Adams
Anyone watch the bobsleigh finals today? Top entertainment.