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This game was in doubt until Monday afternoon with the prospect of North End having no opponents to play as Wanderers were within minutes of being liquadated due to their lack of money, they presently owe the tax man well over £2million an amount which is getting bigger by the day. They have debts of £180 million and basically look up shit creek. They have a knight in shining armour waiting to save them in the form of Dean Holdsworth however his ability to raise the money to save them is obviously doubted by the judge at the court however he has given them a stay of execution for another two weeks.
Meanwhile on the field things are getting desperate as well they are becoming detached from safety by a large margin as relegation looks almost a certainty.
It is a good job their home record is decent otherwise they would have been down weeks ago, they still seem to have a bit of spirit within the team as they managed to scrape a point with a late penalty at home to Ipswich on Tuesday night.
Sometime in the future it looks as if a fire sale of players will happen, they have the highly rated Zach Clough who turned down a recent move to Bristol City and Mark Davies who looked like he was on his way to Hillsborough. Heskey is still knocking around but it has been one struggle for the Trotters.
Garner suspended for North End which should give Hugill and Robinson a chance to get some game time in, we need to be a bit more clinical up front otherwise we tend to get punished. Just shy of 5000 making the trip to Horwich should be a good atmosphere but this is no gimme of a game.