THE ROAD TO WIGAN CHEER

LUKE CONSTABLE says Roberto Martinez has accepted where Wigan are as a club – and so should you because they’re the nice guys

On Match of the Day recently Roberto Martinez did something that I’ve seen him do before, and will surely see him do again. In an interview after the match, which his Wigan side had just lost, he was smiling and laughing at some joke or other. It doesn’t matter what the joke was; he just looked composed, refusing to be mournful in defeat. And that’s the point.

He isn’t the only manager to ever joke through the tedium of a po...

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