3rd spot relegation ?

Morzadec

Stoke

Wigan's relegation all but confirmed

LuckyLloyd

There are no surprises here. It was crystal clear they were getting relegated about 10 games ago. No sympathy. They had a brilliant, brilliant run in the top flight nicely bookended with Saturday's win.

Chucky the tree

Gonna be the worst last day of the season ever.

LuckyLloyd

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Gonna be the worst last day of the season ever.

We were spoiled the last two years!!

madcabbage

Stoke

Thank god I'm watching this on Sky+, gonna keep watching this over and over!

Copper_pipe

Aston Villa

I'm gonna miss Wigan

oldyouth

Copper_pipe wrote: »

I'm gonna miss Wigan

You and dozens of people all over the world

Francie Barrett

Stoke

Copper_pipe wrote: »

I'm gonna miss Wigan

I won't.

shamrock55

Copper_pipe wrote: »

I'm gonna miss Wigan

Me too im quiet sad really

Morzadec

Stoke

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Gonna be the worst last day of the season ever.

Race for 4th still on I suppose at least. Arsenal have a slightly trickier match than Spurs so a bit of interest there. Though I wouldn't hold my breath as a Spurs fan.

But yeah very uninteresting end to the season.

Wigan's best hope was that Villa would stumble a bit but 2 massive wins for them meant it was always going to be a very difficult uphill battle for them.

Can't say I'll miss Wigan and Dave Whelan tbh.

Ardent

I'll miss Wigan too. They play the game in the right way, very positive. I think Martinez with better players at his disposal will be very successful.

artanevilla

Sunderland

I'd say Wigan's fan is very upset.

EdenHazard

Don't really care about Wigan, except for James McCarthy but he'll be gone during the summer anyway.

DazMarz

So now, there is only the fight between Spurs and Arsenal for 4th now.

No relegation battle now. All other teams now safe.

Goodnight, sweet prince for Wigan.

madcabbage

Stoke

Kinda sad they won the FA cup and get relegated 3 days later. They were brave but when your fighting 3 season's on the trot trying to avoid the drop, ya gotta go down eventually.

legendary.xix

Tough on Wigan. Still, 10 years from now they'll be looking back upon a cup success. Championship football is not the end of the world. Sky of course big it up. Football is supposed to be about winning trophies. Wigan have my respect for going and doing that.

Outside the top 7, there isn't a whole lot between many teams. West Brom and Swansea had good seasons but can't exactly take anything for granted. No club outside the top 7 is showing any sign of breaking into that group.

G.K.

Swansea and Newcastle (Provided Pardew is replaced) the most likely, imo.

Red Crow

Anyone below Liverpool are vulnerable next year.

If I was to take a guess now I'd say Stoke, Hull and Watford/Palace.

Mr.Nice Guy

I'm sad to see Wigan go down. They played good football and did brilliant in the cup final.

I think they will struggle to get back into the division.

VW 1

If Wigan lose Martinez, McCarthy and Maloney I can see them struggling big time next season unless they spend the parachute payments wisely and get a good manager in too. Hopefully they make some good choices, sad to see them go personally.

Kiwi_knock

Sad to see them go. To be fair their fans will always have the Cup win which is more important than barely surviving each year. Best of luck to them in the Europa, they will enjoy the European experience. Will not be easy to get back up, some top teams in the league who are better set to mount a promotion push.

ctrl-alt-delete

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I'm sad to see Wigan go down. They played good football and did brilliant in the cup final.

I think they will struggle to get back into the division.

You would imagine they will lose a few of their key players,

Looking at the 3 clubs who got relegated last season, Wolves have gone down again, Blackburn were in that same mix with 2 games to go, and a late resurgence by Bolton under Freedman still failed to get them a play off spot.

The Championship has a heap of "Big" clubs in its ranks. I'm not saying Wigan won't come straight back up, but gone are the days of the Yo-Yo clubs that constantly went down and back up.

There are so many down there with a chance of promotion, and outside of that chance you thread a fine line as Wolves have found out.

legendary.xix

Whelan as chairman makes some good calls. I'd see them as being stable enough to push for a play-off place next season at least.

Paully D

I'm absolutely delighted we managed to stay up. Disgraceful that with the money we've spent over the years and the players we have had at the club at one stage or another since promotion in 2007 that we still manage to outdo ourselves by being consistently ****, but at least we've stayed up in perhaps the most important year to do so with the new TV deal coming in.

I'll miss Wigan and I'm sorry to see them go to. Any other teams involved apart from mine and I'd be cheering for them to stay in the league. It's a great away day for one, and another northern team has gone unfortunately. For a club the size of Wigan to stay in the league for 8 years is a huge achievement, and I'm glad Whelan and their fans have the cup to celebrate. That said, I would have to raise the question, is Martinez being overrated? Yes, they've won the cup but overall he has a win percentage of less than 30% and managers like Steve Bruce and Paul Jewell have achieved higher placed finishes with them. I guess we might get to find out if rumours of him getting the Everton job prove to be correct.