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Former Sheffield Wednesday midfielder Glenn Whelan has stepped into an interim manager role at Wigan Athletic after the League One club parted company with Shaun Maloney on Sunday afternoon.

Whelan made over 140 appearances during a four-year stay at Hillsborough between 2004 and 2008 and was part of the Wednesday side that claimed a 4-2 win against Hartlepool United in the League One play-off final in May 2005. Whelan actually found the net in extra-time after the two sides had shared four goals over 90 minutes and that allowed Drew Talbot to go on and clinch promotion into the Championship when he scored in the final minute of the additional thirty.

The 91-times capped Republic of Ireland international departed to join Stoke City in January 2008 and spent the following nine years with the Potters before moving on to Aston Villa. Spells with Hearts, Fleetwood Town and Bristol Rovers took Whelan towards the end of his playing career before he made his first steps into coaching with the latter of that trio in October 2022.

Departing from his role at the Memorial Stadium just over 14 months later, Whelan was named as first-team coach at Wigan in September last year and will now take temporary charge of the Latics after they parted company with Shaun Maloney in the aftermath of Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat against Reading. That result left the Latics in the bottom half of the League One table and they are sat just six points above the relegation zone after winning just one of their last seven games.