No reason. There would be a Wigan Athletic without Whelan. Just not quite as good. Was meant to put Big smile face not laughing face.
I don’t think there would have been a Wigan Athletic.
If we had gone out of the League at the time he took over we would have disappeared like Maidstone.
We would now be a “phoenix club” in the North West Counties, or whatever it’s called these days.[/quote]
I was too young to know about most of what happened in these times. I just assumed there would still be a Wigan Athletic, and we have Whelan to thank for WHERE we are.