Manchester City v Wigan – as it happened | Nick Miller
And so, the romantics/purists/TV
presenters looking for an easy angle will be frankly engorged at the
prospect of this one, a repeat of last year's FA Cup final with a
chance of another big old upset. However, don't put too many shekels on
Wigan beating Manchester City, because quite apart from the obvious,
that game was something of a perfect upset storm. A team heading
south in the league who were after one last hoorah before tumbling
into the Championship against a collection of players who could
barely disguise their contempt for their manager, a manager who
everyone knew was on his way out anyway, and was blaming everyone
from his players to the for their relative failure
that season. Everyone, that is, apart from himself, that isn't likely to happen again, with
City still doing well in the league, without a dead man walking for a
manager and with a collection of players that, unless we're very much
mistaken, all seem to more or less like the guy they're working plus, they've got better players now
and Wigan have got worse players. Sometimes, football really is that
still, even if the First-Choice
Narrative of a Wigan win and plucky cup upset ends up in the bin,
there is at least a Second-Choice Narrative, specifically that City
might be on for an unprecedented domestic treble, the thought of
which is enough to make the testes of Manchester United fans
everywhere disappear inside wigan are on a good run in the league
at present, creeping up on the playoffs since Uwe Rosler's (fun fact:
he named his child after Manchester City hero Colin Bell)
appointment, but they probably won't have enough to beat probably.
This article is provided courtesy of The Guardian
