Up to now Wigan Athletic was only featuring on the TV once, the away game at Wolves. But both ESPN and SKY have released their December schedule and we will be seen worldwide for the visits of Chelsea and Liverpool.

Villa away marked a momentous occasion on Saturday, the first away game I’ve attended this season and indeed the first game of any sort since the epic battle with West Ham in May.

Wigan Athletic make the trip down the M6 to visit Aston Villa this weekend, but what do Villa fans think of us, N’Zogbia and whether Alex McLeish is their messiah. Well here are just some of those answers.

As relative minnows of the Premier League, us Wigan fans we can only watch and dream of signing the players our lot have to face every week. But let’s be honest, if we could choose one ‘fantasy signing’ one player that would make the list is Fernando Torres; one that wouldn’t however, is El-Hadji Diouf.

As usual, Wigan Athletic will be out and about during the half term this October with their football schools, all ages are catered for and fun is a certainty.

The start of the 2011/12 season has yet again brought with it new expectations, dreams and ideas. Typically with a club like Wigan Athletic there is going to be movement both in and out the club.

After a worrying injury to Hugo Rodallega ended the players involvement in Wigan Athletics game with Everton, it was thought that it would see the Colombian out for three months, but tests have indicated that the injury is not as bad as first thought.

As fans of a club whose Premier league inception was a fairly recent experience, us Wiganers can remember the buzz that promotion brought to the club and the extraordinary first top flight season we enjoyed. Most of us can anyway, some the wrong side of 60 that are losing their marbles might struggle.

Cockney Latic’s web site was shut down for nearly two days due to the message board capacity being very high, it has now been fixed and so Wigan Athletic fans have their place back to have their say.