Not forgetting the infamous victory, also 3-2, against West Ham just last year a result that relegated the Hammers and helped us survive.
Wigan Athletic don’t like to do things the easy way and 2011/12 was no different to the pre-ceding seven years of our Premier League history.
Back in February we had just fifteen points as we approached two-thirds of the way through the season. Our terrific football club looked doomed to relegation and the supporters in the stands were despondent, unsure of what to feel as the Latics drifted helplessly toward the trap door.
Fast forward just over three months and a momentous twenty-eight points were amassed against the biggest teams in the world. Manchester United, Liverpool, Newcastle United, and Arsenal, amongst others, were all despatched as nobody was going to stop the survival train of Wigan Athletic.
The pride was back running deep through the veins of everyone associated with the Latics. With the legendary Northern Soul anthems warming even the coldest of hearts in the stands, the supporters rose to the challenge and the players responded.
We are more than a typical football club, we are a family. Wigan Athletic refused to be relegated.
As other clubs in the relegation fight reached for the panic button and sacked their manager, or turned inwards to blame their owners and manager, the Latics fired all their hot air upwards into the balloon that hoisted them away from danger.
It was a joy to behold and a period of three months that everyone associated with the club should be immensely proud of.
The summer is going to be testing, as all periods of transfer activity are for the Latics. We have some remarkably talented individuals at our football club who will be wanted by many other clubs.
I sincerely hope our present bunch understand just how close they are to achieving a very special moment in football and give it just one more year.
The displays of recent months have proved that Wigan Athletic have grown beyond perennial relegation battlers. We’re ready to do battle in the top half of the table.
But whatever the summer has to offer, and the future beyond that, the last three months saw our humble football club took on the best this country has to offer and come out on top. A truly historic end to the season that will live long in the memory of those involved.
Believe.
