It's almost as ugly as Friday night in the Wynford Hotel with Cardiff City this season.
However this was a good and deserved win. 10 of the players worked unbelievably hard and Kenwyne Jones was on the pitch for City too.
Talking of ugly, the Wigan pitch was little short of a disgrace. Roll a pass through the middle and it would bobble half a dozen times and move in different directions of those bobbles. Run and turn on it and players feet were sliding from underneath them. The best players could do through the middle was battle hard and help the ball go wide where some, not much, football could be played.
City deserved it because they worked hard, showed desire and had the games best moments. Wigan, not helped with a crippling injury list, will soon be in League One and it's easy to see why. They looked poor at he back, while City's defence gave an excellent show and seem to have had as many clean sheets in the last month as they managed all season beforehand.
They were also plain weak up front, I don't think any of their forward players won a single header all night and when they got the odd shot away, They were never going to beat David Marshall.
Kim Bo was their second best player and showed some quality touches but, as was often the case for us, generally 30 yards from goal than in or around the penalty area. Their best player was a midget of a ref who awarded them decision after decision all night long, half the time for the most innocuous incidents, other times when a Cardiff player looked to be the victim not the aggressor. How ironic the only thing they didn't get off him were two disallowed goals, both easily offside though.
Most acquitted themselves well but Bruno Manga was immense in his defending, bringing the ball out and distribution. To play that well on that pitch marks him out as talent.
Citys best moment was an excellent winning goal in which Aaron Gunnarrson drive through Wigans midfield then past defenders into the box before slotting a diagonal shot into the opposite corner. The sort of midfield play we have been crying out for all season.
Second half wasn't as good a spectacle, not that the first half was much of one either, but Cardiff were comfortable and did try to get the killer second but, for all the recent improvement, City continue to lack creativity and efforts on goals although a couple of good opportunities from set pieces were spurned late.
After all the nonsense with City doing their washing in public with cheap shots at Wigan (does anyone consider p.r. at the club?), fans were only too willing to pay tribute to Malky.
Don't text MacKay cos if you text MacKay, you're going to go a law suit on your hands was fun. Asking him to ayatollah, he touched us head and waved was good but Let's all do The Malky with fist pumps from us 400 City was only right and deserved. City singing was good tonight, Wigan had a drum!
A good night then and at final whistle, even if I think the Director boycott was farcical, it did bring a smile to see CEO Ken Choo who had been in the away end with us race to the front to applaud Slade and wave at the players. He shok my hand. Clearly he loved being in with the fans and said he now wants to do it every away game.