The Wigan Athletic Herald
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Hindolo Mustapha, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.64
A mark of 7.64 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Wigan Athletic do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match3 Oct 2026
Wigan Athletic see off Northampton Town
Three points for Wigan Athletic, 3‑1 the final word against Northampton Town in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
Wigan Athletic supporters have found a favourite in Joe Taylor
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Joe Taylor has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Toby Savin has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Joseph Hungbo 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Fraser Murray was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.08. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Hindolo Mustapha is the division's best young player this month
At 20 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Wigan Athletic will try very hard not to make too much of it.
In brief
- Player ratings Caylan Vickers runs at them all day
- Player ratings Joseph Hungbo changes it off the bench
- Market Still no ink between Wigan Athletic and Callum McManaman