The Wigan Athletic Herald
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Herbie Cairns
43 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Fraser Murray
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
Kai Payne 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 The request is on a desk at Wigan Athletic, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Wigan Athletic training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Morgan Fox 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Wigan Athletic find a way past Burton Albion
Burton Albion made Wigan Athletic work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Joseph Hungbo at his very best
Marked 8.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Wigan Athletic.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Will Aimson 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 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Morgan Fox
Defensive actions: 8. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
In brief
- Player ratings Reggie Walsh spends the afternoon fouling
- The terraces Joseph Hungbo has his own song now