We’re all Wigan. We’re all Warriors

Wigan Today

Wigan Warriors released an emotive content piece encapsulating  club culture of strength in vulnerability and its unique connectivity with the fans and community it represents.

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00:00I was so young, feeling so isolated and so confused as to why they were excluding me and treating me differently.

00:24I was a young boy, just trying to comprehend what was happening.

00:28I knew it was wrong, I knew he was wrong.

00:30Am I ready for this? How am I going to provide?

00:34I couldn't explain how I was feeling in that moment, apprehensive and nervous, worried that I wouldn't be enough.

00:42It was the greatest pain and sadness I have ever felt.

00:45In the space of three days, we had experienced the highest high and the lowest low.

00:51Singled out simply because of the colour of my skin.

00:54I knew this wasn't how you treat women.

00:56I was 18 year old and I was going to be a father.

01:00The day my daughter was born was the happiest and most proud I have felt in my life.

01:05Less than 48 hours later, my mother sadly passed away after her 18th month battle with cancer.

01:12I've always been proud of who I am and where I came from. Nothing anyone can say can change that.

01:18But I wouldn't change nothing for the world. I am a provider.

01:22I had a reason to carry on when it could have been so easy to stop.

01:26Your doctor was a child and I was born in the middle of prayer.

01:29And I was waiting for women for a long time to have been so easy to break down.

01:32And I was trying to get it out.

01:35I couldn't do anything to make any sense.

01:38Although that was not as difficult as possible, I was trying to throw it out.

01:43But I was trying to keep my heart.

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