Wigan Athletic defender Emmerson Boyce felt for Matty Phillips after seeing Blackpool go down.
Boyce's celebrations were tempered by the fact Wigan's survival had come partly at the expense of his cousin, Blackpool winger Phillips. Having sampled last-day disappointment, the 31-year-old knew exactly how Phillips would be feeling, and was keen to avoid being seen to be revelling in his cousin's misfortune.
"It's been a weird day," he recognised to the Wigan Observer.
"Matthew went down with Blackpool, so the family celebrations will be quieter than it would ordinarily have been.
"He's young, though, he'll be back, and he's got a great career ahead of him.
"I've told him he's only 20 and his whole career's ahead of him, whereas I've only got a few years left.
"We knew what was going to happen, we knew it would go down to the wire and it could turn out to him them or us. At the end of the day, we stayed up, they went down, but that's life - get on with it."
