The Wigan Athletic Herald
Squad14 Sep 2026
Herbie Cairns damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match12 Sep 2026
Wigan Athletic run riot against Stevenage
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Elijah Igiehon breaks a bone — 29 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A brace, and Joseph Hungbo takes the afternoon — 8.38
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Joseph Hungbo provided it, and the 8.38 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Fraser Murray
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Hindolo Mustapha at 20 — 7.85
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Hindolo Mustapha did not need any: 7.85, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Sam Tickle in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wigan Athletic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Joe Taylor
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Wigan Athletic training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Hungbo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Player ratings Isaac Mabaya shuts the door
- Market The window shut and Kai Payne is still in the building
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Joseph Hungbo