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What’s More Important, Wigan Or Madrid?

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The answer of course is that it’s a pretty dumb question.

Wigan’s away section is sold out, so the humdrum of the Premier League has not been entirely dismissed. Equally there has been a bristle of activity on forums from fans wanting advice on manner of European Tour related issues. Where to purchase their Drachma, ‘is it safe to drink the water?’ and requests for a few handy phrases in foreign to get them by.

We have been subjected to the old ‘bare bones’ speech from Arry of course. Dawson and Bassong are our only two fit centre backs. Hang on – who’s on the incredibly long list of unfit ones? I’ll take Gallas, but Woodgate and Ledders have long since been converted into Prit Sticks, tubes of UHU and rolls of Sellotape, haven’t they?

The Boy Bale did his hamstring in enroute to Cardiff. Presumably whilst trying to simultaneously plug his laptop charger in to a near impossible to reach under table socket and prevent his tea being swept of said table by the passing coats and carrier bags of fellow passengers stampeding past him. Well it’s how I did mine.

For those of you still battling the whole ascent of man process, those of us to the far right of the chart have worked out that if we don’t actually win the Champions League  then we must finish fourth domestically in order to qualify for it next time round. It’s true. Scientists did a study on it.

So Wigan cannot afford to be a warm up act, not treated as poor cousin or as a limbering up exercise. Our lot need to go there and show some minerals. To do less would equate to spending your rent money on hookers and fast cars but telling yourself there was nothing worry about as you’d left a tenner to spend on scratch cards and therefore everything would be cushty.

My shirt losing betting suggestion is Pav Anytime Scorer in a 0-2 win at a Vodkatastic 18/1.

My Indian spirit guide Dave tells me to expect Defoe to start.

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  • Fatfish says:

    Oh…The good old days.

    StPauli 0-2 Schalke abandoned with 4 mins to go after linesman hit by pint thrown from crowd. StPauli down to 9 men at time…

  • Brycie says:

    Our focus should be on Wigwam then shifting on Sunday afternoon to that match on Tues agaisnt Royal Madrid well be grand make it hard for ourselves as usual but come out of it wit a draw our pre season friendly with Villareal is looking to have some merit now you think???

  • Davspurs says:

    I cant get the the image of Bale talking to sleator Giggs at the Wales game was he telling him not to help us get into fourth. The missing body’s gets longer in the champions league week and the opposition plays like its them who are in the Quarters and we are in the bottom three. We no its important but Harry Bale Van Mods have there hearts set on pastures newlets hope we upset there plans and Pinaar Hudds and Defoe Crouch if Harry plays him win the day against High Tempo Wigan a certainty in the bottom three.

  • A_Felching says:

    I see the Sport has gone tits up http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12942417

  • MysteriousStranger says:

    Spoke to an old buddy of mine who I would consider to be an authority on football, betting in particular.

    He is of the opinion Real are over-rated, and we could get a decent result out of the fixture. Word of caution, though, he said this to me prior to our now “broken” news concerning the (lack of) fitness in defence.

    Regarding players, he thinks Modders is also over-rated (comparatively speaking – re: the gushing press and fawning that generally surrounds his name). He thinks more highly of our part-timer VdV than I do.

    He also thinks Taarabt is better than half our current midfield crop. He rejected my suggestion that VdV was possibly a waste of time purchase and we should have just put Adel in there (having kept him, obv.) – and rejected my further suggestion that we should have perhaps kept Adel to play when VdV wasn’t playing (i.e. 1/3rd of the time). He suggested that the player (Taarabt)needed to play, and wanted to be a full time player, but he has no doubts as to his great potential.

    He also thinks our strikers are shit.

    Back to the question though. The next game is the most important. Because it’s the next one.

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