The Wigan Athletic Herald
Squad17 Aug 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Joseph Hungbo
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Wigan Athletic
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market17 Aug 2026
Joshua Lawrence steps up from the Wigan Athletic academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joshua Lawrence has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
Wigan Athletic promote Anthony Cunningham from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anthony Cunningham has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Wigan Athletic against Bradford City
0‑1 to Bradford City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Wigan Athletic training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Caylan Vickers 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Wigan Athletic turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Cole Simms
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Squad Reggie Walsh makes his debut at 17
- Market Wigan Athletic put Joe Adams up for sale
- Player ratings Fraser Murray ran the game