In 1972, Hunter Davies wrote one of the defining sports books, The Glory
Game, in which he chronicled a season from inside a leading football club --
Tottenham Hotspur. Now, three decades on, and with the Football League now the
money-spinning Premiership, Ed Jones has been granted similar access all areas
to the latest, and perhaps oddest recruit to the top flight: Wigan Athletic.
When Hunter Davies was writing The Glory Game, Wigan were still a non-league
club. For the first time in their existence, they're rubbing shoulders with the
big boys, kicking off with a home game against Chelsea and finishing with an
away trip to Arsenal. In between, Ed Jones will be chronicling what it is really
like behind the scenes of a Premiership club -- from the players to the tea
ladies, the dug out to the chairman's helicopter