A funny thing happened when Shrewsbury Town played at Wigan on Boxing Day. The visitors earned a goalless draw to end a run of five straight wins by the League One leaders, though that was not entirely unexpected. What was odd was that when the home crowd chanted: “We are top of the league,” the away fans responded with: “We are staying up.”
At that precise point Shrewsbury were second in the table, as they are still, about to reach the same points total by new year as they managed in the whole of last season. There was a time when Shrewsbury were worried about relegation; when Paul Hurst took over in October 2016 they were bottom of the division, though since then the climb has been steady and impressive.
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