The Road From Wigan Pier

Author:

By Andrew Ross

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Paperback

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Football, Football Teams, Wigan Athletic FC

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Further Details

• Published: 30th Aug 2007
• ISBN: 1905928017
• Pages: 256
• Size: 230mm x 150mm

From the Publisher:

Wigan Athletic's promotion to the Premiership for the 2005/06 season, and the club's tremendous efforts to maintain Premiership status, are a massive achievement. In ten short years the club has gone from skid row, propping up the bottom of the Football League and on the verge of bankruptcy, to millionaires' row, proudly sitting alongside the Chelseas and Manchester Uniteds of this world.

Wigan Athletic FC can trace its roots back at least as far as the famous rugby league club with which it today shares an uneasy truce and a stadium. How it got there is an extraordinary tale, and but for the sheer grit and determination of a handful of people in its early history it’s probable that no football would be played in the town today. This is not just a story of a small town football club struggling for years in the lower reaches of the League before being rescued by a local multimillionaire - it is considerably more complex. It is a story of dreams and disasters, of faltering attempts to establish a foothold for the game in the town - to emerge triumphant from the shadow of Wigan Pier and gain the status it has so long sought.