FA Cup: Wigan Athletic 2-3 Chorley - non-league side come from 2-0 down to beat 10-man Latics
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FA Cup: Wigan Athletic 2-3 Chorley (AET) highlights
Connor Hall's extra-time winner sent National League North strugglers Chorley into round two for only the third time as they piled more misery on 2013 FA Cup winners Wigan.
The Magpies are without a win and bottom in the league, but Hall's brilliant touch wrong-footed keeper Owen Evans and set up an easy finish to complete a dramatic fightback.
Joe Garner's close-range finish and Tom James' superb curling strike put the Latics in control, but a positive first half ended badly when Adam Long was shown a straight red card for bringing down Harry Cardwell when through on goal.
The Magpies took advantage after the break, Elliott Newby firing in when Wigan failed to clear a corner, before a misplaced pass allowed Cardwell to race away and send the tie into extra time with a clinical finish.
Chorley made club history by appearing in the first round for the fourth straight season, but like their hosts were woefully out of form as they made the nine-mile trip south, winless and bottom of National League North.
Their hopes of reaching the second round for only the third time in their history - and the first time since 1990-91 - looked to be fading when Dan Gardner teed up Garner for his seventh goal of the season and James' wonder strike.
But Jamie Vermiglio's side were given hope when Long was shown a straight red card for bringing down Cardwell when through on goal and went on to dominate the second half.
Newby took advantage of Wigan's failure to clear a corner, and moments after James cleared off the line from Ollie Shenton, the hosts gave the ball away in midfield and Cardwell raced away to level.
Defender Scott Leather twice denied Wigan late in normal time, clearing from under his own bar from Oliver Crankshaw's cross and then keeping out Garner's point-blank effort to set up their historic extra time win.