Two days after Burnley, the dressing room had already settled back into routine.
The celebrations were over, and the league table still had Wigan sitting at the top, but nobody seemed particularly interested in looking at it anymore.
Music drifted from one corner of the locker room while players finished pulling on training gear.
Jake, as always, spent the entire time doing something other than preparing.
He stood, trying to convince Carlo that his volley against Burnley had been going in before the post "rudely interrupted history," a claim Carlo dismissed with a laugh.
The players had earned the jokes and the relief that came off the back of that many successive victories.
A moment later, Dawson walked in with Nolan a step behind him.
The conversations died naturally at that as their players looked to their manager to see what he had for them.
Dawson, on the other hand, looked around the room for a moment before resting his hands on the back of an empty chair.
