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Photo: Ivor Hilton
Item #: 28327
Alf is on the right.
Was at that game
Referee admitted many years later that it was a goal and true about missing his train home after extra time !
Was at that game with my cousen Roy Pitcher latics ripped off it was a goal we were both frozen and then had to get a bus to Blackrod
Absolute disgrace. Alf Craig's winner should have stood. It just goes to show how non-league clubs were treated in those days, with Wigan Athletic being victims that cold winter night. History tells us of the injustices of the way the way the game was run. We look back in horror at the consequences...
Well i never iv'e never believed with any system and to be honest i can't recall this yet it was true!!
As we all know W.A. were always treated like that ,in fact the rumour was quote :: THEY f.a. NEVER FORGAVE WIGAN FOR PULLING OUT THE LEAGUE IN THE MIDDLE OF A SEASON. But if that ref is still alive the power's that be should publicly shame him and if he holds any trophies
they should be returned.
Edit: 'the way the game was run'. And it was an equaliser not a winner. :)
Wouldn't miss my train either for such a ridiculous game.Silly buggers.
Let me enlighten you Jim, the referee didn't miss his train.He did not allow the equalising goal from Alfie Craig, even though it was in the net before he blew for fulltime!
Oh my. Don't remember the world coming to an end due to it though. Possibly because only rugby mattered in Wigan, as it does now.
Oh dear looks like the lodgers of our ground are getting upset by the team who are on a par crowdwise , Wigan Athletic play in a worldwide sport in the best league on earth.Pity your minority sport in only played in the Lancs / Yorks corridor and a handful of other places !
Haha! Love this, Alf was my Grandad this has always been a funny story that him and my mum shared with me when I was younger wish I could've watched him in his prime
i went to the first game at tranmere with my faher, and the second in the snow blizzard, iwas 9 years old went to cup away games in those times lancs junior cup finals.