This is, I would say, the biggest scandal that English football has seen certainly this season.

In time it may prove to be of all time in the championship.

Because when we strip this down, it comes down to a man has taken over a football club

and on the very day that he's taken over, he's put it into

administration without any explanation publicly. Well, you heard it there from our friend Adam

Crafton who rejoins us this week to talk us through the situation at Wigan Athletic. Seb,

would you like to tell me what we tried to ask Adam about you and I laymen's

to this story? We tried to ask Adam about the situation at Wigan, which is incredibly

nebulous and hard to understand. So take over with a lot of moving parts, a lot of people that

don't have a lot of texture to them, and a lot of companies which don't have any history. And from my

point of view, as a cheerful layman, I'm still a little bit confused, but I think that's just

about the situation itself rather than any explanation Adam provided. Yeah, well, listen, you know what?

It sounds like a dirty mystery. And if you want to read more about it, which I would highly

encourage that you do so,

a piece by Adam Craft and also Simon Hughes appears on The Athletic. It's called How Wigan Athletic

were torn apart by an invisible owner. If you're not a subscriber to the Athletic, you can get a

30-day free trial to do so, or just go and read that piece and then cancel your subscription.

That's, you know, don't do that. Obviously, keep the that piece and then cancel your subscription. That's, uh, you know,

don't do that. Obviously, keep the, keep the thing. But, uh, you can do that by finding theathetic.com forward slash Tifo. Well, listen, I don't think there's any more point us, uh, talking through what happened in today's episode, because as you'll hear over the next 30 minutes, Seb and I ask many questions which we hope will aid the listener in understanding this situation because once

you get a grasp of it as our... 30 minutes. Seb and I ask many questions which we hope will aid the listener in understanding

this situation because once you get a grasp of it, as Adam says at the beginning, it's a great

big scandal. So without further ado, warm embrace, cool hands. It's Adam Crafton. Okay, Adam, can we chart the path to this point?

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