Being a Wigan Athletic season ticket holder gives me the privilege of going to the games and seeing first hand at that exactly is going on and to be honest there isn’t a lot.
Previous seasons poor Championship teams have been promoted and then immediately are in the bottom three of the table with the other two teams that were promoted. This trend has been bucked this year with the unlikely Swansea and Norwich making a stirling start to the season and continuing that through the winter break and into 2012.
This however has finally shown the gulf in class between the bottom and top teams in the Premier League and how reliant teams such as Wigan on poor promotions and yoyo teams. They were the best of a bad bunch, and only just on the last day in a few cases were they spared the blushes of relegation.
There is no race to a points total, no best of the bunch, it is just a case of not being the worst and unfortunately the teams don’t have anyone to blame but money.
Wigan are a small team with a small following, the season ticket I paid for was £270 for the year with a perfect seating position for full view of the pitch and one of the goals. I have tried to find the exact statistic for this without success but I can’t say there is more than a Season Ticket base of more than 13’000 a year, and a lot of those are families with small kids. Now if everyone of those paid full price you would end up with a Gate Receipt of £3.5mil a year. This a week is £67’307. It has been reported that Victor Moses is on 60k a week. You do the maths!
Do you try to become the team that spends little and succeeds on pure will and brute force such as Swansea and Norwich, or try to spend money in search of success that if comes will pay off, but if not will tie you up financially like Bolton, Blackburn and Wigan.
This isn’t a race anymore, this is a competition to see who can hold on for the longest, who can drag themselves back from the brink the best, who can balance the unbalanceable and unfortunately we will see a change of the YOYO teams and the demise of some league favourites.
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