They had never heard of Au Yeung Wai Kay in Middlesbrough this time last week. It could well be that Wigan's mystery owner is the man who keeps them in the Championship.
For new Boro boss Neil Warnock is beginning to realise the scale of the challenge he took on last month.
This was his first game in charge at the Riverside but it all felt very familiar, another defeat to leave his side in the bottom three and without a home win since Boxing Day.
Neil Warnock's Middlesbrough look incapable of saving themselves from being relegated
Enter Wai Kay, a previously unknown Chinese businessman who looks set to emerge as more central to Boro’s survival prospects than Warnock or any of his players.