Wigan Album

For anyone interested in this photo, the gentleman featured (George Nevison) won Olympic gold with the GB Water Polo team in the London 1908 Olympic games. He was far from the only Wigan international of the time - Charles Smith also won gold on the same team, and I believe Fred Swift was also called that year but was unable to go. Other photos in various of the sports sections on this site have more details, and www.waterpololegends.com is a fabulous blog with a few further images, including a VIDEO of a 1908 Olympics match and a match review of the final. Fascinating! :)

He has his own wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nevinson and the wikipedia entries for the Water Polo event at the 1908 Olympics, and the 1908 olympics as a whole (both linked from his entry) are also of interest.