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And then, the news I was waiting for popped up on screen, but not announced by the presenters who were still talking about Owen (like they had been doing for the past 24 hours), but it was on the small golden slip at the very bottom of the screen simply announcing "Wigan have signed David Connolly from Leicester".
Now im not saying that us signing David Connolly for a deal worth £3million is bigger than Michael Owens move to the Geordie part of England, but abit of variety in the news would have been nice, at the end of the day our signing was one of the most expensive on deadline day and yet it hardly got mentioned.
Not even the £7million signing of Jermaine Jenas to Tottenham could relinquish some air time from the mighty Owen, instead it was talked about for a measly 2 minutes at most every hour.
What im getting at here is that after the build up to the Wigan V Chelski game, were Wigan were on television every hour with a different story about our fairytale rise to the Premiership, most of the articles based on Wigan fell into the same old formula.
Instead of talking about our first ever Premiership victory against Sunderland, articles in the papers and on the internet talked about our support (usually claiming we got such a crowd because such a team brought 10,000 fans) or some other cliché that we've heard all before.
Proof? Look at the fanzone week 3 on skysports.com and what's the topic on Wigan? It wasn't anything to do with the result, it was asking whether Wigan could get the local support to get behind our team.
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It annoys me even more because Fulham failed to get a bigger crowd than us yet they were playing Everton, an almost guaranteed sell out when the come to the JJBernebau.