Chinkgate, the sorry race-related episode that has blighted Wigan Athletic and its owner Dave Whelan over the last couple of weeks, has shown us that we have to be vey careful what we say for fear of breaking largely unwritten rules associated with race, homophobia...
If you’ve been to the chippy over the last few days, the chances are your fish and chips will have been lovingly wrapped up in old newspaper pages filled with column after column of vitriolic abuse of Wigan Athletic’s septuagenarian chairman, Dave Whelan. Not that...
My lad is one of a small handful of kids chosen from his class to potentially sit Level 6 SATs at the end of year 6 in June – or at the end of junior school, as it was in my day. He and the other kids in the frame have bee told that if they are to be allowed to...
A number of our team members are currently spending the working week away from our base in Oldham. Some would say that not having to spend all day in Oldham is a good thing. However, I don’t think many of them particularly relish the travelling and staying away from...
So, last week we looked at players who left Wigan Athletic supposedly to move on to bigger and better things. Leaving Wigan didn’t work out too well for the ones we saw last week but there have been one or two success stories. Throughout the eighties, there was a...
