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The Wigan Athletic Herald

19 Dec 2033
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings19 Dec 2033

Both of them Bode Newnham-Reeve's — 8.47

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.47, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The dugout19 Dec 2033

Stephen Cooper says Wigan Athletic went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad19 Dec 2033

Bode Newnham-Reeve 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.

Match17 Dec 2033

Wigan Athletic see off Walsall

Three points for Wigan Athletic, 2‑0 the final word against Walsall in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad19 Dec 2033

Words exchanged at Wigan Athletic

Habib Sylla and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad19 Dec 2033

Gerald Donegà wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Wigan Athletic know it.

Market19 Dec 2033

Wigan Athletic and Josh Adaji are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad19 Dec 2033

Too much change too quickly at Wigan Athletic

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout19 Dec 2033

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Interim Coach, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

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379 Edition

The Wigan Athletic Herald

31 Oct 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match29 Oct 2033

Wigan Athletic run riot against Crawley Town

6‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings31 Oct 2033

Both of them Miles Obodo's — 8.99

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.99, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings31 Oct 2033

Age has not caught Jack Sparkes yet — 8.05

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.05 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings31 Oct 2033

Isaac Greenup pops up at the right end — 7.88

7.88, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Match29 Oct 2033

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Wigan Athletic and Crawley Town in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad31 Oct 2033

Words at Wigan Athletic training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bode Newnham-Reeve 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.

Match25 Oct 2033

Isaac Greenup sends Wigan Athletic past Leicester City

It finished 1‑0, and it was Isaac Greenup’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Wigan Athletic.

The dugout31 Oct 2033

Banele Mnguni gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings31 Oct 2033

Ninety minutes of Sutura Kakay at his very best

Marked 8.06. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Wigan Athletic.

In brief