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Whelan and Wigan
Dave Whelan, the Wigan chairman, hinted that Heskey could be transferred by Wigan in January 2009, as a fee would be received, whereas he would move on for free in the summer, which came after he had stalled on talks over a new contract.
Mathias ' team won Wigan Athletic's second trophy under Dave Whelan, when the Latics beat Millwall 1 0 to win the AutoWindscreens Shield at Wembley in April 1999.
Wigan Warriors did not figure in the equation until Dave Whelan bought the rugby club some 12 months later after protracted negotiations with the directors of the rugby club.
Despite Wigan manager Roberto Martinez stating that the club would not be selling their top players, chairman Dave Whelan later said that Wigan ' would have to sell N ' Zogbia ' because he was in the last year of his contract.
The sportshop chain was founded in 1971, when ex-footballer Dave Whelan acquired a single sports shop in Wigan.
Also, because of Dave Whelan's purchase of the Fitness Club and founding of DW ( Dave Whelan ) Sports in the autumn of 2009, JJB has lost its association with FC and Wigan Warriors RLFC.

Whelan and Athletic
Whelan was born into a family of footballers from Dublin, Ireland ; his father, Ronnie Whelan Senior, was an Irish international and a key member of the successful St Patrick's Athletic side of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Goals from Gavin Whelan ( whose father, Paul, captained Bohemians to the 1992 cup and whose grandfather, Ronnie, won 2 cups with St. Patrick's Athletic ) and captain Declan O ' Brien helped " the Drogs " to a 2-0 win over Cork City.

Whelan and made
Whelan shares her father's passionate interest in Canadian agriculture, having made Agriculture and Rural Development one of the key elements of policy during her tenure as Minister.
Latics owner, Dave Whelan, made attempts to unite the fans when the JJB Stadium ( now DW Stadium ) opened in 1999, but in retrospect polarised the fans even further.
Dalglish made a run across his path into space, but Whelan used it as a dummy and clipped an exquisite ball over three Everton defenders into the path of Rush who, from the angle of the six-yard area, thumped the ball past Mimms, knocking over a camera in the process.
Attending this conference made Whelan an even stronger proponent.
Whelan was signed for Liverpool by Bob Paisley for a bargain £ 35, 000 on 19 September 1979, a few days before his 18th birthday and made his debut 18 months later, on the 3 April 1981, scoring his first goal in the 27th minute of the 3 0 league win over Stoke City at Anfield.
Manager Graeme Souness gave Whelan more first team opportunities in the new FA Premier League for the 1992 93 season, and he made 17 appearances ( scoring once ) as Liverpool finished sixth once again, but this came at the end of a season which had mostly been spent in the bottom half of the table and they stood 15th as late as early March.
In 1993 94, Whelan made more appearances than he had done in any of the previous three seasons 23 in the Premier League, scoring once.
Whelan has since made a return to television, winning the reality series Celebrity Bainisteoir in 2008.
A partially independent documentary film was made by Waterford man Rick Whelan, which was released in 1993 as The Legend of Loftus Hall.

Whelan and summer
The band began touring as a four piece the summer of 1980, joined in the fall by Whelan, and later by a young Cork fiddler Nollaig Casey.
A substitute slot for Gerry Ryan on his morning radio show on RTÉ 2fm in the summer of 2005 led to a more permanent return to the station for Whelan.

Whelan and 1995
In 1995, a tunnel was proposed as part of the Connector, traveling underneath Horace J. Bryant Drive ; however, the idea was rejected by Mayor James Whelan and the City Council as it would have displaced many homes in the area.
In February 1995, local millionaire and owner of JJB Sports Dave Whelan purchased the club, which was then playing in the Third Division ( fourth tier ), and set out his ambition to reach the Premier League, a statement which was widely ridiculed at the time.
Mr Gage finally admitted defeat when he sold the Latics to Dave Whelan on 27 February 1995 for around £ 1m.
Published children's books she has illustrated include: Bringing the Farmhouse Home ( by Gloria Whelan, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1992 ); Miss Tizzy ( by Libba Moore Gray, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993 ); The Statue of Liberty ( by Lucille Recht Penner, Random House, 1995 ); and Raising the Roof ( by Ronald Kidd, Habitat for Humanity International, 1995 ).
Whelan played for the Republic of Ireland national football team at one UEFA European Football Championship ( 1988 ) and two World Cups ( 1990 and 1994 ), turning out a total of 53 times for the national side between 1981 and 1995.
She has also presented Eurovision Song Contest 1995, a Saturday night chat show called Kennedy, and was co-presenter with Marty Whelan on the magazine programme Open House.

Whelan and when
Whelan, whose contract guaranteed editorial autonomy, left the paper when the owners refused to renew the contract, asserting that " I have blood on my hands " for helping Moon acquire legitimacy.
The six-member line up of Moore, Irvine, Lunny, O ’ Flynn, Hill and Linnane were joined by Matt Molloy and keyboardist Bill Whelan and when the band went into the studio in the spring of 1980 to record the album “ The Woman I Loved So Well ”.
In 1998, Dr. Elizabeth Whelan wrote an editorial about the Canal in which she stated that when the media started calling the Canal a " public health time bomb ," it created hysteria.
Liverpool were now 2 1 up, but the game was in the balance until the 84th minute, when Ronnie Whelan led another attack.
Mølby was also involved in the third goal, when Rush latched on to a chipped pass from Ronnie Whelan to put the final out of Everton's reach and complete the double.
Whelan was a devout Roman Catholic who came from a large family ; his father John had died in 1943, when Whelan was eight years old.
* 6 February-Dublin's Liam Whelan is among the dead when a plane carrying the Manchester United F. C.
This season saw Liverpool play an exciting brand of football and they won both the league title and FA Cup, although Whelan missed out on the cup final as Nigel Spackman, who had won his place in the team when Whelan was injured earlier in the season was chosen ahead of him.
One of Whelan's more forgettable moments came in 1990 when, in a match at Old Trafford, an unmarked Whelan chipped a backpass from 30 yards over goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar and into the net.
Whelan was a regular for the Republic of Ireland, making his debut on the 29 April 1981 when he came off the bench in the 63rd minute of the 3 1 victory over Czechoslovakia at Lansdowne Road.
As Whelan put it: " You stop when you drop ".
There was much laughter in the courtroom when Cameron began questioning a witness demanding to know why " John Downey " had just answered that he had never known Whelan, nor lived in Montreal as it was widely known was true.
Whelan returned to the national broadcaster in the mid-1990s when he presented such shows as GFI: Go For It, Off the Record and Millionaire.
He twice represented the crown prosecution when Patrick John Whelan appealed his conviction for the murder of D ' Arcy McGee and was the prosecuting attorney that prevailed in the trial of Louis Riel.
A Democrat, Whelan was appointed mayor in 1963 when his predecessor, Thomas Gangemi, was forced to resign over a question about his citizenship.

Whelan and Whelan's
Whelan's partnership with McMahon proved a great success and, although Whelan was himself injured later in the season, Mølby's return to fitness came too late to resume his place in midfield, which went to Nigel Spackman for the rest of the season.
Whelan's daughter, Susan Whelan was elected to the House of Commons in 1993 in her father's old riding and, in 2002, became Minister of International Trade in Chrétien's cabinet.
This would be Whelan's one and only appearance of the season for the first team, as Whelan spent much of his first few months at the club in the reserves.
The prosecutor called Joseph Faulkner, a tailor who knew Whelan in Montreal, hoping that he would testify about Whelan's Fenian connections ; while he said he recollected Whelan being angered by McGee during the election season, which was contradicted by other witnesses who claimed Whelan showed no interest in politics, he said there was no known Fenian connection.

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