"You'll see a big improvement when we get this new pitch. We like to pass and play at pace and you couldn't do that with the way pour old pitch was.
"We're a Premier League club, we've got a Premier League stadium and we need a Premier League pitch."
Whelan has splashed out £100,000 on the pitch itself and then another £190,000 on a cover to help keep the grass in tip-top condition.
What the chairman failed to reveal was that the Premier League had asked the Latics to get the pitch sorted after a series of complaints.
Hopefully with the new pitch in place in time for the Charlton game, the Latics can play the way they like to. Personally, I think it's time to evict to Klumps.
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