Hope you don’t mind me coming on your forum, I just wanted to bring up the subject of Wigan Athletic. Not a club that is anyway close to my heart, to be perfectly honest I don’t really care much for them or their supporters.
I’m a Bolton fan and we’ve never taken these relative newcomers to the Football League very seriously, they have an intense dislike of us as a club and a minority of their supporters took great delight when we came close to being liquidated a year ago.
The shoe is now very much on the other foot, but it’s not a time to rejoice at a fellow clubs demise.
Having lived through the crisis at my own club, the not knowing whether you will have a team to support tomorrow is not something that I had ever given serious thought to, until it happened, and having been through it , it is not to be wished on any supporter of any club.
That was very much brought home when as we celebrated survival, our near neighbours Bury FC folded.
And that is why I am here – to make you aware of Wigan fans attempts to save their own club … the fans are trying to raise £500k by Monday via a crowdfunding scheme and are well on the way to reaching that target with assistance from fans up and down the country. (If the money raised is not used as set out and another buyer acquires the club it will be refunded)
You can find details here
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-wigan-athletic/comments?page=2#start
If you can help, as one or two of your fans already have, please do so, do it for Wigan, so they can continue to regard my team as their most bitter rivals, and do it for the greater good of the game. They won’t be the last club to find themselves in this position.
Thanks and best wishes for the coming season
