Wigan Players to personally refund fans..

Roar · 23-11-2009 4:19pm #1

.. who travelled to white hart lane yesterday.

http://www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10429~1883581,00.html

nice touch i think

The club have announced that the players of Wigan Athletic have decided to personally refund every Latics fan who bought a ticket from the DW Stadium ticket office for the match against Tottenham Hotspur yesterday.

Latics had a sizeable following at White Hart Lane and skipper Mario Melchiot, speaking on behalf of all the players, said today: "We feel that as a group of players we badly let down our supporters yesterday, and this is a gesture we HAVE TO make and pay them back for their tremendous loyalty.

"There is not a lot else to say, just that as a group of professionals we were embarrassed by the way we performed, we feel it was below our standards and this is something we feel we owe to the fans.

"Now we have to draw a line under the game, focus completely on training this week and bounce back on Saturday.

"We are professionals, we will take it on the chin and move on but it's important that we do not take our supporters for granted."

pickarooney · 23-11-2009 4:48pm

A fitting gesture; nice to see them basically apologising for being terrible. I wonder how the idea came up and went down?

Nalz · 23-11-2009 4:52pm

nice touch

mike65 · 23-11-2009 4:55pm

Just coming to post same

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/nov/23/wigan-tottenham-fans-tickets-defoe

Fair play, some teams will hope this sort of thing doesn't catch on though.

Johner · 23-11-2009 5:09pm

Nice one.

Wigan will be fine this season imo. So unpredictable though.

Warper · 23-11-2009 5:11pm

Ya well done - Wigan are nowhere near that bad a side and just ran into Spurs in one of those freaky days.

GavRedKing · 23-11-2009 5:13pm

Fair play to players a nice touch.

To be fair, most of spurs goals were brillant, apart from 2 that was bad defending, Lennon and Defoe were on fire and it could have been more.

1-0 at half time and all, crazy game :pac:

Royale with Cheese · 23-11-2009 5:15pm

Saw it done before in Germany after FC Köln went to Bremen and lost 6-0. One of the players just outright refused to pay his share of the refund. He left the club that summer.

SantryRed · 23-11-2009 5:24pm

Tbh after that horror show they should give each fan 50 pounds as well as the ticket refund for travelling expenses.

Galvasean · 23-11-2009 5:30pm

That's a very nice gesture. Good to see some clubs still care about their fans.

Sherifu · 23-11-2009 5:35pm

Fair play.

Vurnon San Benito · 23-11-2009 5:38pm

Good gesture and the fans will appreciate that.
Wigan are a work in progress and have a lot of ability under Martinez.
They just need time.

Ferris_Bueller · 23-11-2009 6:32pm

Fair play to all the players paying the fans back, shows they dont take the support for granted.

mirwillbeback · 23-11-2009 6:34pm

Being Wigan, and away from home, it's probably only about 160 quid.

Mr_Roger_Bongos · 23-11-2009 6:50pm

Regardless of how the players felt initially, they'll see the graitiude reflected through the public and media and realise it's a good gesture.

I'd say the wigan faithful will really appreciate it and good move for Martinez too!

Podge2k7 · 23-11-2009 7:03pm

Fair play to Wigan.

mink_man · 23-11-2009 7:12pm

fair play!

therecklessone · 23-11-2009 7:15pm

Seeing as Scharner handled the ball for their only goal the only decent thing to do would be a replay...

SarahBM · 23-11-2009 7:20pm

Well done to the Wigan players. Not many professional footballers would do that! Nice gesture!

mike65 · 23-11-2009 7:20pm

therecklessone wrote: »

Seeing as Scharner handled the ball for their only goal the only decent thing to do would be a replay...

Let Jimbo do the gags!

24-11-2009 10:04am

Probably the least they could do tbh.

The Muppet · 24-11-2009 11:24am

That's a nice gesture by the players/club, fair play to them.

Gone Drinking · 24-11-2009 11:28am

Henry should do the same :pac:

BaZmO* · 24-11-2009 11:31am

I bet they wouldn't be doing it if they were playing at home.

Mitch Connor · 24-11-2009 11:53am

BaZmO* wrote: »

I bet they wouldn't be doing it if they were playing at home.

with the attendances they get, wouldn't have made too much of a difference.

Roar · 24-11-2009 2:01pm

15 grand is what they'll have to pay out, according to bbc sport

Mad_Max · 24-11-2009 2:10pm

Are they covering their travel expenses in this?

Might have cost people more to travel than the ticket itself.

The 15k the beeb reported is the maximum payout. That's if all 565 tickets allocated were sold to adults. I suspect it's a decent chunk less than 15k.

patmac · 24-11-2009 2:58pm

Noel Edmund should pay it all, he had a shocker, it's hard to believe 15k is less than a week's wages for him, he wouldn't make the Skyvalley Rovers 2nd team after that performance.

Mitch Connor · 24-11-2009 2:59pm

patmac wrote: »

Noel Edmund should pay it all, he had a shocker, it's hard to believe 15k is less than a week's wages for him, he wouldn't make the Skyvalley Rovers 2nd team after that performance.

the banker was good to him the day he was offered that deal.

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