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POSSIBLE LINE-UPS:

Wigan: Al Habsi; Boyce, G.Caldwell, Alcaraz, Figueroa; Watson, Cleverley, McCarthy, N’Zogbia, Moses, Rodallega.

Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa Terry, Luiz, A.Cole, Ramires, Essien, Lampard, Malouda, Drogba, Torres.

THE PICTURE TELLS THE STORY:

Rodallega's penalty v Chelsea 09/10

Kapo’s goal v Chelsea 08/09

Heskey’s goal v Chelsea 07/08

LAWRO’S PREDICTION:

I just don't think Fernando Torres deserves his place in the Chelsea team at the moment, having seen him struggle at Stamford Bridge in midweek against Manchester United in their Champions League quarter-final.

But apart from that defeat, I think Chelsea are looking more like their old selves and they are likely to be too strong for Wigan.

The Latics are scrapping for their lives at the bottom of the table, and got a good point against Tottenham last week, but they cannot get a sequence of wins together and, at the moment, don't look like getting out of the bottom three.

Prediction: 2-0

LAST 5 MEETINGS - WITH MATCH REPORTS:

Wigan 0-6 Chelsea               http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8928161.stm

Chelsea 8-0 Wigan http://www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/MatchReport/0,,10429~47531,00.html

Wigan 3-1 Chelsea                                         http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/sep/26/premier-league-wigan-athletic-chelsea

Wigan 0-1 Chelsea http://www.football.co.uk/match_reports/chelsea_wigan_1223066.shtml

Chelsea 2–1 Wigan  http://www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/MatchReport/0,,10429~44738,00.html

SATURDAY’S OTHER MATCHES INCLUDE:

Wolves v Everton (12:45 kick off - Live On Sky Sports HD 2)

Blackburn v Birmingham

Tottenham v Stoke

Bolton v West Ham

Man United v Fulham

Sunderland v West Brom

LATICS NEWS IN BRIEF:

· Vital Wigan Poll Results. Last week Wigan Athletic supporters on Vital Latics voted Antolin Alcaraz as their man of the match in the 0-0 home draw against Tottenham Hotspur with 44% of the votes. In second place was James McCarthy with 16% and Emmerson Boyce came third with 9% of the total votes.

· The Big Flag. Wigan Athletic supporter Chris Blackburn has began his search for the money needed for a HUGE Latics crowd-surfing flag at the DW stadium – 75 feet by 35 feet to be exact! To donate some money or just to simply have a look at the BIG plan go to www.Off-The-Post.net/

· Wigan On Tour. The Lucozade Fans Fives challenges got underway last month and we’re now into challenge 2: Matchday Madness. To see the entry for “Wigan On Tour” go to http://apps.facebook.com/lucozatefansfives/ click Wigan Athletic, then go to Wigan On Tour. They need your support to crown them best of every team that entered the competition!

· Fake Twitter Account. This week an account was removed by the moderators of Twitter, which was for a short amount of time, ran by someone pretending to be Tom Cleverley. I should stress that doing anything like this is against the basic rules of Twitter and even Facebook and MySpace for that matter.

· Stoke Away Coach. Latics Crazy are running a coach to our game against Stoke City on May 22nd priced at the extremely good price of just £13 per seat. Oh, and there’s only 1 person to a seat in-case your thinking of sitting on each-other! Book by simply contacting us on Twitter or Facebook where our name is “LaticsCrazy” as always. Alternatively if you have an account on our official website you can send “Sephton01” or “Latics” a private message.

· New Supporters Website. Check out Wigan’s newest fans website made by the creators of The Mudhutter, Ye Olde Tree & Crown and Not A Patch On. The website is called “This Northern Soul” and has already become popular with hundreds of the Latics faithful!

· Sunderland Away Coach. A different group of Latics fans have a coach going from Wigan North Western to Sunderland later on this month. To book onto their coach at £20 per person contact James Taylor on Facebook or send LaticsCrazy a message on Twitter/Facebook and we’ll be happy to send the information across to him.

· Blackpool sold out. It was revealed by the club a few days ago that the away allocation of 2,200 for our game at Blackpool as expected has completely sold out. We would like to thank our fans for the continued support of Wigan Athletic Football Club on the road, and of course at the DW stadium.