Would love to go straight up, and if I had to choose straight away or it could be 2,3,4,5,6.......seasons time then it is straight away, you cannot pick and choose and it will be a hard league to get out of!
Was he not the player walking around with his hands in his pockets with music on his headphones during Marcus's funeral? Terrible attitude but I alway thought he was a good league 1 player who will probably find his level in the Championship it he gets his head right maybe in a mid table premier team.
I still have the great Uglyinside fanzine with CN on the front to the words of 'Should I stay or should I go now' and all over the cover it says go go go go go go go go go go go go go with 1 stay. So it seems to me the fans had had enough, but we had some excellent games under his management, did we not play 4-2-4 formation home and away with Shearer, Rod Wallace and Le Tisser up front. We were the second top scorers with 71 goals.
The worst thing about sacking CN is that we replaced him with someone with no experience in the top fight and a negative manager to say the least. We went from one extreme to the other!!
Nope, there was empty seats in the Stoke end, but to be fair they had an expensive week last week. I do think that Wigan sold out their allocation though.
Makes even more amazing that they have stayed in the top flight so long, in a rugby town near merseyside and Manchester. Fair play to them but long term they have had it really!