Number of Wigan fans at White Hart Lane today...

[Lady Whistledown]

.....60 (sixty).

I know times are hard, and they've been a bit crap this season so far, and ordinarily I hate taking the piss out of clubs for their support (which they can't really do much about)....but COME ON

 

[Conkers]

Shouldn't be a Premier League club. That is a disgrace.

Edit: MASSIVE TONGUE IN CHEEK WARNING!1111!!111!

 

[El Presidente]

I remember us having about 45 for a match against Man City in the 80's

 

[Goodfella]

thats a poor turn out for a div 2 match in winter........

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

Shocking.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I mean, it's a bit harsh to criticise clubs like Accrington Stanley or Macclesfield for their crap crowds....some places just aren't footballing towns, and you can't just make them come when your team's struggling at the arse end of the Football League.

But Wigan still get home gates of 12,000 upwards. Just amazed that so few made the trip. I suppose, being fair, I don't know what Spurs' ticket prices are, and for all we know there could have been some kind of protest or whatever.

But ordinarily, that is a bit shocking isn't it? Bet the ones who didn't bother are gutted now

 

[seagullsoverlincoln]

i was astonished to be honest-you'd get that at Exeter v Carlisle in the Johnstone
Paint-scandalous-I did'nt care before but now I hope they go down

 

[Goodfella]

I mean, it's a bit harsh to criticise clubs like Accrington Stanley or Macclesfield for their crap crowds....some places just aren't footballing towns, and you can't just make them come when your team's struggling at the arse end of the Football League.

But Wigan still get home gates of 12,000 upwards. Just amazed that so few made the trip. I suppose, being fair, I don't know what Spurs' ticket prices are, and for all we know there could have been some kind of protest or whatever.

But ordinarily, that is a bit shocking isn't it? Bet the ones who didn't bother are gutted now

makes the 1-0 win even more creditable with no support i think

 

[Beach Hut]

Times are hard, train companies are hiking up prices, petrol is expensive it hardly surprises me this.

 

[Braders]

definitely , but lets face it would YOU want to go back after a 9-1 drubbing?

(awaits a mass of fans telling me they can't wait to go back to 'uddersfield even despite THAT game last year)

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Times are hard, train companies are hiking up prices, petrol is expensive it hardly surprises me this.

I agree, but it is still a bit of a shocker that it wasn't even three figures.

Fair play to the die hards

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Shouldn't be a Premier League club. That is a disgrace.

Why should a team's league status depend on the size of the fanbase?

 

[JGaleBHA]

Disgrace.

 

[Conkers]

Why should a team's league status depend on the size of the fanbase?

Well I was just saying that tongue in cheek. If their fans can't be bothered with going to away games (it's not as if it's Plymouth to Newcastle distance is it?) then they don't deserve to be in the Premiership.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Why should a team's league status depend on the size of the fanbase?

Agreed, what a crap world it would be if only "big" clubs were allowed in.

Frankly it makes Wigan's continued presence at the top table all the more admirable if you ask me. It would be easy for the chairman to decide it's not worth the effort. I reckon I'd probably get on a whole lot better with those sixty Wigan die hards than 2000 plastic Arsenal/Chelsea/Man United day trippers.

Perhaps football needs to look at itself if a game at White Hart Lane is so unattractive/expensive only sixty fans will go.

 

[El Presidente]

After two matches and a goal difference of MINUS TEN to date, perhaps it was understandable?

 

[Paxton Dazo]

They took 124 to Hartlepool Tuesday.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Agreed, what a crap world it would be if only "big" clubs were allowed in.

Frankly it makes Wigan's continued presence at the top table all the more admirable if you ask me. It would be easy for the chairman to decide it's not worth the effort. I reckon I'd probably get on a whole lot better with those sixty Wigan die hards than 2000 plastic Arsenal/Chelsea/Man United day trippers.

Perhaps football needs to look at itself if a game at White Hart Lane is so unattractive/expensive only sixty fans will go.

Exactly. It's that sort of thinking that enforces the divide in the footballing hierarchy between the haves and the have nots

 

[Simon Morgan]

I would be disappointed if we took 60 to Hartlepool on a Tuesday night. I cannot BELIEVE that at least a few hundred would have fancied a jolly in London for the day. How many away fans really care about the result etc and go more for the day out? Sorry but 60 is a really really poor turn out.

 

[e77]

I would have thought they would have more than 60 fans living in London.