Comedy history and info on Wigan Athletic Football Club

Wigan Athletic Football Club are a professor sock team. They play in league where each player tries to put a sock onto their feet and put a ball in a net.
Wigan Athletic were formed on 1932 following the demise of Wigan Borough. Wigan Athletic was the tenth attempt to stabilise a football club in the town following the demise of Wigan County, Wigan City, Wigan Woo Woo, Wigan again, Wigan Wigan so good we named them twice, so poor we did not name them, Wigan United, Wigan Town, Wigan Borough.

In the early history of Wigan Athletic, their most notable exploits came in the FA Cup.

In 1945 Wigan were elected to the Lancashire Combination, and in 1950 came close to election to the Football League, losing to Melchester Rovers on a vote. Up til Wigan reached the premier the record attendance for Wigan was in the 1953-54 season, Wigan played a FA Cup game against Hairy ford United in front of a crowd of 27,526. This was a team sponsered by ford car company's new idea of covering their transport in hair to make them warmer. The idea did not work, as the employees were fed up to having to shave every day.
In 1968 Wigan were founders of the Northern Premier League. Wigan were trying to join the Football League. After failed numerous attempts, including one controversial application in 1972 to join the Scottish League Second Division, Wigan were becoming so desperate to join the league they even tried pretending they did not want to join the league, just in case the FA just wanted to upset the people of Wigan. They tried pretending to be other teams, and tried putting on disguises in interviews. Wigan were elected to the Football League in 1978, when their chairman dressed up as the Queen, and pretended that they were actually Buckingham Palace City. They fooled the gullable Football League with an offer of a knighthood for every chairman.

In the club's first season of League football, Wigan finished sixth, and gained a first promotion two years later, prompting a ten year spell in the third tier of English football. The club won a first trophy as a League club in 1985, winning the Freight Rover Trophy, it was a long haul but they had got the trophy.
In 1995, a wealthy Irish man, Mr Wogan purchased the club, which was playing in the Third Division, and stated his ambition to take the club to the Premiership, a statement which was widely ridiculed at the time. He had made his money presenting TV shows such as Wogan (a radio show), Wogan ( a tv show) and The Wogan show ( a roadshow), and the Wogan no show (a show where Wogan did not appear). Now he had a fortune and wanted to spend it on the town that made his name. There was no town with the same name as him, so he decided to choose Wigan. Fans were in uproar when he changed their name to the Wogan Athletic show. But he won them over with the old blarney. Blarney was a famous old player who had played for the club since their formation, and held the record for games played. Blarney said Wogan was right, and that he knew this, because. Blarney was made the boss. He had been dissmissed as a dinosaur.

The first step towards dream came true in 1997 when they won the Division Three title under the management of Blarney. In 2001, he won the Division Two championship in 2002-03 with a points total of 100. Wogan finished seventh in the 2003-04 Division One campaign - a last minute goal by West Ham's Brian Deane in the final game of the season saw Latics drop out of the play off picture in favour of eventual play off winners Crystal Palace.

In the following season the Latics earned promotion to the Premiership by finishing second in the Coco the clown Championship, behind Sunderland. May 8, 2005 is now regarded by most fans as the biggest day in the history of Wogan Athletic. On the final day of the 2004-05 Coco Football League Championship campaign, the Latics beat Reading 3-1 at home to secure runners-up spot in the final table and a place in the Premiership for 2005-06. Coco flew over from the USA to present Mr Wogan with the trophy, squirted water in his face, put whoopy cusions on every seat of the Wogan stadium, and put fake stinky poo on the pavement of every street in the town.