@Walter Hinteler,
I would never say a thing like that Walt. 20 teams in the Premiership is only a cut off point for logistical reasons in the grading of our football clubs. Wigan have not gone anywhere except lower down the rankings.
One might say, as the game is radically professionalised, that the football authorities, like the racing authorities, have created a beautiful scheme for taking money off a range of people, not least wealthy gentlemen who need another reason to have a lot of attention paid to them, with some shamanistic wizardry concerning a bunch of hairy arsed blokes chasing a ball around a field or are investing in the hope of rich dividends like in poker.
But Wigan is owned by a bloke who broke his leg playing in a cup-final at Wembley, received £400 in compensation for never playing in the top flight again, invested it wisely and became a rich man.
He's a proper, old-fashioned English football club chairman and his getting Wigan into the Premiership and keeping them there as long as he has is a great achievement. As is them winning the FA Cup.
A good number of the chairmen of clubs who have stayed up are of unknown provenance.
