Summary

  • Charnley scores in final rugby league match to help Wigan win

  • Gildart grabs Wigan's other try, with Smith kicking two penalties

  • Patton scored Warrington's only points in first half

  • Warrington without English title since 1955

  • Wigan win second final in four years, both against Wolves

  1. Postpublished at 75 mins

    Warrington 6-12 Wigan

    Short kick-off from Warrington comes up with the ball.

    They did this against Castleford in the Super 8s, and ended up scoring on the last play of the game!

    Ryan Atkins batters his way toward the line but is stopped...

  2. PENALTY (Matty Smith)published at 74 mins

    Warrington 6-12 Wigan

    Matty Smith scores a penaltyImage source, Reuters

    Matty Smith places the ball on the tee, and clips it through from just to the left of the sticks to make it a converted score lead.

    Wigan have one hand on the trophy...

  3. Postpublished at 72 mins

    Warrington 6-10 Wigan

    Matty Russell fields a kick through from Matty Smith, and concedes a dropout.

    Not the position from which Warrington can strike back.

    Wigan return the ball hard. Sean O'Loughlin spills the ball but it's deemed to have been stolen.

    Penalty...

  4. Postpublished at 71 mins

    Warrington 6-10 Wigan

    TWO Declan Pattons? No - just a shirt of Patton's as a blood replacement top for Kurt Gidley.

    It's been bruising this. Mentally absorbing and exhilarating in equal measure.

  5. Postpublished at 70 mins

    Warrington 6-10 Wigan

    Kurt Gidley looks a sight, blood pouring from a face wound. He has to be kept on, his guidance is essential if Warrington are to get their hands on silverware.

    Clock stopped - 10 minutes to go.

  6. Postpublished at 69 mins

    Warrington 6-10 Wigan

    Warrington harried into errors as they chase this game, Kurt Gidley - usually so peerless - makes an error to give Wigan a scrum.

    Their thoughts will be dominated by Wembley you'd imagine. Two finals, to come so close, must be heartbreaking.

  7. Postpublished at 67 mins

    Warrington 6-10 Wigan

    Josh Charnley heads to rugby union this winter, what a loss to league he is. 

    He didn't panic when that ball bounced, took it in and finished it off.

    Warrington giving it their best though - Daryl Clark kicking on the last and almost finding the hands of Tom Lineham who had chased hard but not quickly enough.

    Wigan's Josh Chanley celebrates tryImage source, Reuters
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    TRY (Josh Charnley)published at 63 mins

    Warrington 6-10 Wigan

    Tom Lineham's loose carry is punished by Wigan - classic Wigan play.

    They softened Warrington up with the tough stuff, then Dan Sarginson pulled out a trick - a glorious kick to winger Josh Charnley in acres of space.

    Time stood still as the ball bounced, but the winger clutched and grounded it. Wigan go back in front.

    Tough angle for Matty Smith and his kick again scrapes wide of the uprights. Four points in it with about 16 minutes to go.

  9. Postpublished at 62 mins

    Warrington 6-6 Wigan

    Boost for Warrington, Daryl Clark is coming back on.

    However, Tom Lineham has just knocked on in contact early in the set to hand initiative to Wigan.

  10. Postpublished at 61 mins

    Warrington 6-6 Wigan

    Warrington slide and slice to the right edge and then back the middle. Then a kick through from Chris Sandow but Rhys Evans can't grasp it.

    Now Wigan have a chance to respond. It's like basketball this. We're over the hour mark now.

  11. Postpublished at 59 mins

    Warrington 6-6 Wigan

    Kurt Gidley went off injured at Wembley in the Challenge Cup, and it seemed to affect Warrington.

    Will Daryl Clark's injury have the same effect?

    It's not affecting them at the moment, as Josh Charnley is pinned in-goal and Wigan will have to drop out from under their posts.

  12. Postpublished at 58 mins

    Warrington 6-6 Wigan

    That was the try any neutral wanted. It's reignited the game, coming as it did on the back of a chalked off Warrington score.

    Wigan look pumped, do Warrington - who lost the Challenge Cup from a winning position - have the mettle to respond?

  13. try

    TRY (Oliver Gildart)published at 55 mins

    Warrington 6-6 Wigan

    Liam Farrell threatened it in the first-half, this time he executed, slamming through after George Wlliams popped off the ball and fed Oliver Gildart to screech in at the corner.

    Oliver Gildart tryImage source, Reuters

    100TH GRAND FINAL TRY. Wigan level but Matty Smith misses with the kick!? How key is that going to be?

    DRAMA.

  14. NO TRYpublished at 54 mins

    Warrington 6-2 Wigan

    Ryan Atkins sees it chalked off... ball looked to come loose.

    That would have been the 100th Grand Final try in 18 years of the concept.

    Will Wigan be buoyed by that?

  15. TRY REVIEW (Ryan Atkins)published at 54 mins

    Warrington 6-2 Wigan

    Ryan Atkins was like a train as Warrington targeted the left edge. Try on field decision by Robert Hicks...

    Wigan did their best to stop him. Where will this one go?!

  16. Postpublished at 54 mins

    Warrington 6-2 Wigan

    Phil Cartwright
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    You'll have heard the expression about football fans "sucking the ball into the net" and both sides will be desperate for whatever the rugby league equivalent is, given that they're both attacking their own supporters in the second period.

    If anything, it was a little quieter in the second half compared to the first until Chris Sandow's introduction. The Warrington fans are singing a lot louder now.

    Warrington's Chris SandowImage source, Getty Images
  17. Postpublished at 53 mins

    Warrington 6-2 Wigan

    Penny for the thoughts of Josh Charnley who knocked on off a kick.

    Warrington scrum in a great position.

    Daryl Clark the man to make way for Sandow by the way. It was the little half-back's kick that earned it.

  18. Postpublished at 53 mins

    Warrington 6-2 Wigan

    Ryan Sutton hit a great line off a short-ball just then, looked for all the world a line-breaker but Warrington closed in to shut the door.

    Warrington sending on Chris Sandow now... MASSIVE INTRODUCTION.

  19. Postpublished at 51 mins

    Warrington 6-2 Wigan

    Stefan Ratchford is goalkeeper-esque in his ability to spot danger and be in the right place on the last.

    He's a superb modern full-back, not bad given he'd been signed as a half. So versatile.

  20. Postpublished at 50 mins

    Warrington 6-2 Wigan

    The tight in-goal areas, as Phil Cartwright was saying, leave no room for error on the kicks.

    Kurt Gidley's raking ball downfield just bobbled behind.

    Spaces are opening up midfield. It's poised, for me, to light up soon.