Carlisle United's history against Wigan Athletic is a surprisingly limited one, with the clubs having met only ten times in the league to date.

Most of those encounters came in the 1990s, when the clubs were regular rivals in the fourth and third tier.

United and Wigan first met in the league in the 1986/87 Third Division season - two defeats, so we'll quickly gloss over those.

It was then 1993/4 when the sides next met in the fourth tier, a time the Blues were on course for the play-offs.

Two wins over the Latics helped their cause. First, a 2-0 November victory at Springfield Park, sealed by this bullet header by Andy Flounders, in one of United's classic away kits...

Come the spring of '94, Mick Wadsworth's team were on the march and swept Wigan aside 3-0 at Brunton Park, the pick of the goals this overhead treat from Rod Thomas...

The following season saw Wigan the opening-day 1994/95 visitors to Brunton Park, and a deadly finish from Dean Walling proved the difference in a 2-1 August win for the Blues...

They met again at Springfield a month later - and the outcome was similar. A 2-0 win for Wadsworth's men this time in front of a big travelling deckchair army support, thanks in part to a piece of penalty-box sniffing by Darren Edmondson...

Carlisle and Wigan were promotion rivals in 1996/7 with the Latics getting the better of the Blues twice.

The following campaign in the third tier, though, United prevailed - first 1-0 at home, thanks to a late Gareth McAlindon strike at Brunton Park...

Then, in what remains their most recent meeting, it was 2-0 to the Blues at a sodden Springfield, Ian Stevens with some trademark poaching for the opener before McAlindon - who is among the Blues' guests at tonight's game - helped himself to another.