"And then there were four," came the commentary as the players settled into their respective positions on the pitch.
"Four games. Four opportunities for Wigan Athletic to confirm what they've been building toward all season. The FA Cup final is already booked. The question now is whether they can secure playoff football to go with it, and starting tonight, at the DW, against Reading, they begin to answer that."
His partner nodded beside him.
"The table doesn't lie. Sixth place. Still just a point above the team in seventh. Every game from here is like a final in its own right."
The DW was loud in the way it gets because the crowd understood the stakes and were going to do their hardest to will their team over the finish line.
Twenty-four thousand people who had watched this team grind through a season that had no right to be still alive, and here they were, four games from the end, still in it.
