The Latics faced Preston in the days early kick off, live on Sky Sports. The game was played in front of North End’s biggest attendance for three years, 20,221, more than 500 less that the Latics’ largest attendance of the season.
It finished 1-1, meaning that a win next week at home to playoff chasing Reading would put the Latics into the Premiership. Lee McCulloch got the Wigan goal with a thunderous header from Kavanagh’s free-kick, whilst Brian O’Neil headed Preston’s equaliser, unmarked, just before the break.
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Kuqi’s opener was a good finished from superb through ball by the recalled Ian Westlake.
Sunderland meanwhile managed to clinch the title in the away game with West Ham.
The Black Cats won the game 2-1, despite having a Chris Brown gopal disallowed for offside. They went behind initially to Marlon Harewood’s strike close to half time, but second half goals from Arca and Elliot won the game, and the title for Mick McCarthy’s men.
Down in the relegation fight, and Crewe sank into the bottom three after their hammering at Portman Road.
Gillingham now look safe and Cardiff are safe after they played out a 1-1 draw at the Preistfield while Ipswich’s opponents next week, Brighton also look safe after their away win at relegated Rotherham.
Two times European Champions, Nottingham Forest suffered relegation to League One yesterday after their 2-1 defeat to Q.P.R. at Loftus Road.
Just 25 years ago the club was retaining it's European Championship. They sit alongside Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and AC Milan as one of the eight teams to have won the European Cup in successive years but next season they will face demoralising trips to Colchester, Doncaster Rovers and Port Vale.
They last played in division three in 1951.
ResultsBurnley (0) 2 Plymouth Argyle (0) 0 12,893 Coventry City (4) 6 Derby County (0) 2 22,728 Gillingham (0) 1 Cardiff City (0) 1 10,810 Ipswich Town (2) 5 Crewe Alexandra (0) 1 28,244 Preston North End (1) 1 Wigan Athletic (1) 1 20,221 Queens Park Rangers (1) 2 Nottingham Forest (0) 1 17,834 Reading (1) 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (0) 2 20,495 Rotherham United (0) 0 Brighton & Hove Albion (1) 1 6,549 Sheffield United (0) 0 Millwall (1) 1 19,797 Stoke City (0) 0 Watford (0) 1 15,229
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Saturday 30th April 2005Pld Home Away Overall Pts GD W D L F A W D L F A W D L F A 1 [P] Sunderland 45 15 4 3 44 21 13 3 7 31 20 28 7 10 75 41 91 +34 2 Wigan Athletic 45 12 5 5 39 14 12 7 4 37 20 24 12 9 76 34 84 +42 3 Ipswich Town 45 17 3 3 53 26 7 9 6 31 29 24 12 9 84 55 84 +29 4 Preston North End 45 14 7 2 44 22 7 5 10 22 33 21 12 12 66 55 75 +11 5 Derby County 45 9 7 6 35 29 12 3 8 33 30 21 10 14 68 59 73 +9 6 West Ham United 45 12 5 6 36 24 8 5 9 28 31 20 10 15 64 55 70 +9 7 Reading 45 13 7 3 33 15 6 6 10 17 26 19 13 13 50 41 70 +9 8 Sheffield United 45 9 7 7 28 23 9 6 7 27 29 18 13 14 55 52 67 +3 9 Millwall 45 12 4 6 33 22 6 7 10 18 23 18 11 16 51 45 65 +6 10 Wolverhampton Wanderers 45 8 11 3 36 24 6 10 7 32 33 14 21 10 68 57 63 +11 11 Queens Park Rangers 45 10 7 6 32 26 7 4 11 22 31 17 11 17 54 57 62 -3 12 Stoke City 45 11 2 10 22 18 6 8 8 14 19 17 10 18 36 37 61 -1 13 Leeds United 44 7 9 6 28 26 7 8 7 21 24 14 17 13 49 50 59 -1 14 Burnley 45 10 7 6 26 19 5 7 10 12 20 15 14 16 38 39 59 -1 15 Leicester City 44 7 8 7 22 20 4 12 6 25 26 11 20 13 47 46 53 +1 16 Watford 45 5 10 7 24 23 7 6 10 27 34 12 16 17 51 57 52 -6 17 Coventry City 45 8 7 8 32 28 5 6 11 28 43 13 13 19 60 71 52 -11 18 Plymouth Argyle 45 9 7 6 31 23 5 3 15 21 41 14 10 21 52 64 52 -12 19 Cardiff City 45 9 4 9 23 19 3 11 9 24 32 12 15 18 47 51 51 -4 20 Brighton & Hove Albion 45 7 6 9 23 28 6 5 12 16 36 13 11 21 39 64 50 -25 21 Gillingham 45 10 6 7 22 23 2 7 13 21 41 12 13 20 43 64 49 -21 22 Crewe Alexandra 45 5 8 9 35 37 6 6 11 29 48 11 14 20 64 85 47 -21 23 [R] Nottingham Forest 45 7 9 6 24 26 2 7 14 16 38 9 16 20 40 64 43 -24 24 [R] Rotherham United 45 2 7 14 17 34 3 6 13 18 35 5 13 27 35 69 28 -34