Dave Whelan in the Cross-Hairs
By Max Musson: Dave Whelan is a former professional soccer player with Blackburn Rovers and Crewe Alexandra football clubs who was forced to give up his playing career through injury. He is something of a legend however having built up a multi-million pound sports business empire and now owns Wigan Athletic football club. He is the former owner of JJB Sports and the current owner of the DW Stadium where Wigan Athletic and Wigan Warriors…
Pot Calling Kettle …?
The Dean of Durham has recently written an open letter to the new Italian manager of Sunderland Football Club, Paolo Di Canio, calling on him to renounce Fascism publicly or risk being associated with “toxic far-right tendencies”. An open letter of this sort, irrespective of how diplomatically worded, is of course a thinly veiled attack upon the recipient, suggesting as it does that someone expressing admiration for Benito Mussolini is by definition unfit to hold the…