Jewell looks on bright side as Wigan win

THE date was October 16, 2001, and Paul Jewell had sunk as low as he could go with Wigan. Bottom of the old Second Division, the Latics were hammered 5-1 at Wrexham in an LDV Vans Trophy Northern Section first-round tie in front of just 1,550 fans.

Jewell had only been in the job four months and it seemed his days were numbered, yet chairman Dave Whelan had belief in the 43-year-old and the rest, as they say, is history.

It is why Jewell is far from tearing his hair out after losing the seventh of eight games since taking charge of Derby, and with the club staring at an immediate return to the Championship.