London: As blue-and-white confetti exploded under the Wembley arch, Wigan players lifted a trophy for the first time in the club's 81-year history.
In one of the biggest FA Cup final upsets, a team playing non-league football 35 years ago and assembled for barely $30 million beat big-spending Manchester City 1-0 on Saturday.
Winning English football's showpiece match was not only a reward for Wigan owner Dave Whelan's investment in the small northern club, but completed his unfinished business from the 1960 final.
After breaking a leg playing for Blackburn at the old Wembley, Whelan's career ended at the age of 23 and he started amassing the wealth that enabled him to ultimately finance Wigan....
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11:48 PM, May 11, 2013
London: The FA Cup final on Saturday features two teams apparently heading in different directions. There's Manchester City, confirmed for another season in the ritzy Champions League. And Wigan, happy to forget for one day an impending fall into anonymity in the League Championship. Wigan, three points from avoiding relegation in the English Premier League with two games to go, still believes they can stay up. In their pursuit for...
08:29 AM, May 11, 2013
London: Roberto Martinez is a strong manager who can keep Wigan Athletic in the Premier League, Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini said on the eve of Saturday's FA Cup final against the Spaniard's struggling team. Wigan's place in the top flight is under threat as they are three points from safety with two matches to play but Mancini believes Martinez can keep them afloat. "Martinez is a strong manager and...
11:25 PM, May 10, 2013
Manchester: Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has apologised to David Luiz for his ugly two-footed stamp on the back of the Chelsea defender's thighs during Sunday's FA Cup semi-final at Wembley Stadium. Aguero says in a Twitter post that he has contacted Luiz to say sorry for the 85th-minute tackle in City's 2-1 win, adding that it was an "impulse reaction that shouldn't have happened." Luiz used Twitter to thank...
07:04 PM, Apr 17, 2013
London: Manchester City reached the FA Cup final by beating defending champions Chelsea 2-1 in a free-flowing game at Wembley on Sunday to maintain their only remaining hope for a trophy this season. City dominated much of the first hour and went 2-0 up through goals by Samir Nasri and Sergio Aguero, before Demba Ba pulled Chelsea back into the game with an acrobatic finish in the 66th. That led...
10:41 PM, Apr 14, 2013
London: Millwall fans fought among themselves at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, overshadowing Wigan's 2-0 victory that advanced the club to the first FA Cup final in their 81-year history. Police and security officers appeared slow to react as disorder built throughout the second half. Groups of Millwall supporters brawled with each other and security personnel. Ten people were arrested following "sporadic disorder" among Millwall fans, police said. The investigation was...
09:57 AM, Apr 14, 2013
London: Frank Lampard believes fatigue will be no excuse for Chelsea in Sunday's FA Cup semi-final with Manchester City even though his club had to squeeze five games into a punishing 13-day schedule ahead of the tie. The Londoners have almost turned the FA Cup into their own personal property in recent years, lifting the trophy in 2012, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2000 and 1997. "City will be fresher than us...
08:16 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Manchester: Manchester City and Chelsea can make up for unfulfilling campaigns in the Premier League by winning their FA Cup semi-final on Sunday and installing themselves as heavy favorites to lift the old trophy next month. City's 2-1 league win at Old Trafford on Monday is unlikely to trigger a meltdown by Manchester United, which holds a commanding 12-point lead over its neighbor with just seven games left. In fact,...
08:52 AM, Apr 13, 2013
London: Holders Chelsea should have striker Demba Ba and defender Ryan Bertrand available for Sunday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City at Wembley. Senegal international Ba, who was ineligible for Thursday's Europa League quarter-final at Rubin Kazan, suffered an ankle problem in last weekend's 2-1 Premier League victory over Sunderland and had to go off at halftime. England fullback Bertrand, who has been deputising in the absence of the injured...
01:05 AM, Apr 13, 2013
After another weekend of cutting criticism, Chelsea's stop-gap manager Rafa Benitez achieved a measure of vindication with Monday's FA Cup victory over Manchester United. ...
05:18 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Demba Ba sent Chelsea into the FA Cup semi-finals with a 1-0 victory over Manchester United. ...
07:10 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Chelsea won the FA Cup last season and finished sixth in the top flight. They qualified for the Champions League at the expense of Tottenham Hotspur by winning the trophy. ...
05:29 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Millwall beat fellow second-tier club Blackburn Rovers 1-0 in an FA Cup quarter-final replay on Wednesday. ...
07:34 AM, Mar 14, 2013
The winner of this match will play Manchester City in the semi-finals. ...
09:41 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Miyaichi, 20, suffered an ankle injury after coming on as a substitute in Wigan's 3-0 shock quarter-final win at Everton. ...
10:15 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Benitez has accused Ferguson of failing to shake hands before FA Cup quarter-final between Chelsea and Manchester United. ...
10:11 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Chelsea or Manchester United will face Manchester City in the FA Cup semi-finals and Wigan Athletic will play Championship Millwall or Blackburn Rovers. ...
09:41 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Eden Hazard and Ramires scored in the second half of the FA Cup quarter-final to cancel out Hernandez and Rooney's goals in the first. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 10, 2013
The second-tier clubs will meet on Wednesday at Ewood Park as they chase a place in the semi-finals at Wembley Stadium. ...
11:21 PM, Mar 10, 2013
