Coyle reveals huge bust-ups with Whelan

Owen Coyle has admitted he was wrong to take the Wigan job last season, while revealing he had "blazing arguments" with chairman Dave Whelan during his short tenure.

Former Burnley, Bolton and Latics boss Coyle is currently out of work after departing the DW Stadium last December less than six months into the job following three successive home losses.

The Scot claims he was at loggerheads with Whelan from the moment he was hired in June and has stressed he will be selective over the next chairman he works for.

“I didn’t get on with the chairman from day one, truth be told, so I never actually signed my contract when I went there,” Coyle said.

Coyle went on to lift the lid on his relationship with Whelan, who is currently the subject of an FA charge relating to comments he made concerning Chinese and Jewish people.

Coyle added: “We never left Wigan for football reasons... we left Wigan because the chairman and I never saw eye to eye. We had a couple of blazing arguments and I told him what I thought. So that’s the real reason.”