[3] He came through the academy at Crystal Palace, played regularly for their reserve team,[2] and was shortlisted for the 2006 Football League Championship Apprentice of the Year, but lost out to Derby County's Lewin Nyatanga.

[15] Against Accrington Stanley on 14 February, he gave away what he felt was an unjust late penalty, but the kick was missed and Bournemouth won the match 1–0.

[19] By the time Wiggins completed his rehabilitation and made his first outing for Norwich's reserves, Paul Lambert had replaced Gunn as manager.

[24][26] Wiggins returned to AFC Bournemouth on 29 January 2010 on a 28-day emergency loan, permitted under the club's transfer embargo because so many players were injured or suspended.

[27] He started the next day's 2–1 win over Crewe Alexandra,[28] He played regularly at left back even after Warren Cummings' suspension ended,[29] and his loan was extended initially for a second month and then to 1 May.

[30] He started all 19 of Bournemouth's matches during his loan spell, and played the whole of all but the last, a 4–0 win against Port Vale that confirmed his team as 2009–10 League Two runners-up, when he was taken off after 87 minutes.

[31][32] His parent club, Norwich City, were promoted to the Championship at around the same time, and Wiggins suggested he had taken more satisfaction from Bournemouth's success because he had been part of the process.

[38] In the second half of the season, he missed matches due to minor injuries, including being bitten by a dog during training,[39] but still finished with 40 appearances in all competitions.

[47][55] Wiggins began the 2012–13 season as first choice, but fractured metatarsals in his foot caused when he fell awkwardly in a match against Crystal Palace in mid-September kept him out until the reverse fixture against the same team four-and-a-half months later.

[56] He continued in possession of the left-back spot, helped his side keep four consecutive clean sheets in October and November,[59] but was sent off late in a defeat to Middlesbrough in January 2014 for a "crunching" tackle on Dean Whitehead.

[65] This time, he failed to regain his starting place when he returned to fitness: Morgan Fox, who had regularly covered for him, retained the position,[66] and Wiggins made just one more appearance, in mid-April.

[68] He made his debut in Wednesday's 4–1 League Cup win over Mansfield Town at Hillsborough six days later,[69] but found his first-team opportunities limited, with Daniel Pudil preferred at left back, and he asked to leave the club in January.

[71] Eddie Howe signed Wiggins for AFC Bournemouth for a fourth time on 30 January 2016, for a fee understood by the media to be £200,000; he agreed a two-and-a-half-year deal.

[77] With regular left-back Jonathan Grounds suspended, Wiggins made his second appearance, and first start, in the Second City derby against Aston Villa on 30 October.

After what manager Gary Rowett dubbed an "absolutely brilliant" performance, he was stretchered off in stoppage time with what appeared to be a serious knee injury.