The Latics, who are 14th in the Championship, will be deducted 12 points if they finish outside the relegation zone come the end of the season.
The shocking development comes just a month after Hong Kong consortium Next Leader Fund took over at the DW Stadium. Wigan are the first professional club in England to enter administration since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and efforts are now being made to sell the club in order to avoid the unthinkable.However, they are far from the first side to have faced such an uncertain fate.
Here is what happened to other clubs, some of them powerhouses of the game, after they went into administration.Then League One side Bournemouth went into administration in February 2008, and the future of.
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