Wigan Athletic will welcome Spanish La Liga side Villareal to the DW Stadium on the 7th August, whilst other friendlies include League 1 Preston North End, Boston United and Marine FC.
It isn’t like Wigan Athletic to barter so much over a player, but the negotiating over Ali Al-Habsi is being really drawn out seeing as Bolton have said three times that they will only settle on £4 million.
Well it’s not really that big a secret that Wigan Athletic Supporters band Empty Seats will be performing for free at the Honeysuckle pub on Friday 1st July.
Wigan Athletic will start and finish the 2011-2012 season with home games, first against Norwich and finishing off with Wolves. Latics will play the newly promoted teams in succession from the opeing day with Manchetser United away on Boxing Day.
All Wigan Athletic fans are being given an opportunity to get some football back in their lives during the close season as a special event is to be held at the DW Stadium on July 8th 2011.
I remember when we first got into this league and how I waited with baited breathe for 10 a.m. on fixture day, would Wigan Athletic get one of the big guns on opening day and who would our final game be against?
The Seventh Annual Run4alife event at Haigh will take place on September 25th 2011 and we want to help make this year’s run better than ever and raise as much money for Cancer Research as possible.