Old school favourite to thoroughly modern man

By Chris Dunlavy

HOLDING FIRM: Wigan have entrusted Graham Barrow with the manager’s job till May
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COLD, confused, shocked by their team-mates’ consumption of alcohol and incapable of finding a shop open beyond 6pm.
When the ‘Three Amigos’ descended on Wigan in 1995, Roberto Martinez, Jesus Seba and Isidro Diaz were about as comfortable in Lancashire as a Yorkshire rose.
Thank goodness, then, for Latics boss Graham Barrow. “Graham was my mentor,” said Martinez, who would later employ Barrow as his assistant at W...

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