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Lancashire League and also entered the Richardson Cup. The club applied to join the Lancashire Combination for the 1920–21 season and continued as Wigan United for a further nine games (P9 L9) before being forced to close by the Lancashire FA as they were found guilty of paying their players for "lost time", which contravened rules of the time. A new club,
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Division North League; however at the time only the regional champions were promoted. Also that season they reached the Third Round of the FA Cup, the furthest Borough would ever progress in the competition. Though they lost the match against Sheffield Wednesday
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proved too much and, unable to pay the players' wages any longer, Wigan
Borough went out of business on 26 October 1931 with liabilities of £30,000. In truth the club had only made a profit for one year since they had been in the Football League. The last four players Doran, Russell, Hartley and
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Arsenal in a friendly, which they won 2–1. Their first league match saw them fight back from 1–0 down to win 2–1 against Nelson, but they would go on to finish only 17th of 20 in their début season. They spent ten years at this level before
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890:Fourth tier (relegated since 1987)
307:List of Wigan Borough F.C. players
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971:Kidderminster Harriers
860:Bradford (Park Avenue)
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199:club from the town of
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327:Largest win
38:Nickname(s)
1081:Categories
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880:Workington
687:Leeds City
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390:8 February
348:References
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205:Lancashire
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197:football
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