Quote Shifty Cat="Shifty Cat"Could be wrong but didn't I read on the London forum that his kid has started school in Yorkshire somewhere and he's got a house up here as well.
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Just read an interview by him a few days ago and he does indeed live up here in Cleckheaton and as he says -
Quote Shifty Cat“Being off-contract at the end of the season, my family had moved back up north to Cleckheaton to be around their family and have support there, so I was living alone for the last four months from June.
“I was travelling back and forth from London to Cleck. I thought it was manageable but it got to a point where enough is enough and I had to bite the bullet. I didn’t want to leave London, but for the best for my family I said I had to go home.”'"
Saying that I'm massively surprised Wigan have brought him in and then secondly he takes up a quota spot. He'll be 32 next season and has been playing in the lower league for several years and tbh even when he was in SL was a really inconsistent player as we saw at Trinity, although looked a better player at Bradford. Some Trinity fans may say he wasn't given enough chances in the halves but that whole farce with him not wanting to play against Bradford etc then he got what he deserved and was loaned out. Plus who can forget his performance in that hammering against Wire, although no one came out of that match looking good - it was like he went out of his way to show he didn't want to play, which to say at the time he was one of the more experienced and skilled players in the team was appalling, to say the least. Obviously, Wire was far the better team but at least some of the lads tried, not him.
If he'd have knuckled down and actually took the advice from various Coaches on board during his career, instead of being such a moody maverick, he'd be remembered as a quality import imo
Maybe Wigan will get something out of him and no doubt there will be flashes of brilliance but I won't hold my breath.
