When Matty Peet accepted the job he had worked his entire adult life towards not even he could have envisaged that in his 17th match as a head coach he would be leading out his hometown club, Wigan, in the Challenge Cup final. But that is now the reality for Peet, who has worked his way up from coaching Westhoughton Lions’ under-12s to the biggest job in the game.
Probably no club is more synonymous with the Challenge Cup than Wigan and Peet, who has attended finals at Wembley as a supporter and member of the club’s backroom staff, now takes the lead role, albeit at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 28 May. The young group of players he has transformed in a matter of months were worthy winners at Elland Road as they survived an almighty comeback from their great rivals, St Helens.
