The Wigan Athletic Herald
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lucas Tobin
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wigan Athletic lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match22 Aug 2026
Blackpool punish Wigan Athletic for switching off
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Joe Taylor will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Wigan Athletic escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Market24 Aug 2026
Joe Adams puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Wigan Athletic, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Fraser Murray
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Wigan Athletic
Sam Tickle was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Morgan Fox falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Baba Adeeko
- Match Joe Taylor rescues a point for Wigan Athletic