I had a debate with my friend, who's a Chelsea fan, but we're both really down to earth about it. We still get on, even when we're rubbing results in eachothers faces, we still end up talking about everything calmly and usually agreeing. He's not arsed about our past records against them (Wigan), he's more relying on this "new" factor:
Prior to this season, Wigan Athletic had never taken a single point from the "big four" in the Premier League, but recent results have swung more their way:
Liverpool 1-1 Wigan
Wigan 0-0 Arsenal
Chelsea 1-1 Wigan
Now, that's the other three teams in the big four who've finally slipped up against Wigan after quite a few games. Now, this next fact can either go against us or for us depending how you look at it. Wigan lost to those three teams in the reverse fixtures, one away game, two home games. Man Utd beat Wigan 4-0 at Old Trafford, so it could be set in stone that United will slip up against Wigan to make Wigan's "taking points from the big four" spell complete.
Liverpool 1-1 Wigan / Wigan 0-1 Liverpool
Wigan 0-0 Arsenal / Arsenal 2-0 Wigan
Chelsea 1-1 Wigan / Wigan 0-2 Chelsea
Man Utd 4-0 Wigan / Wigan ?-? Man utd
But obviously, all of this is just speculation. We beat them 4-0 at Old Trafford when we were in a bit of a slump, with our squeaky 1-0 wins, so now we can thrash them again in our away slump.
