5-4-Friday… 5 TV Realities
This week, I have finally finished watching Ozark. For some unknown reason, I abruptly stopped watching after season four episode four in 2022 and left it catching metaphorical dust for four years. So, I got round to binge-watching the final ten episodes this week and...
5-4-Friday… 5 Golf Mysteries
There was no 5-4-Friday last week as I was busy helping the Brucies to victory over the Tarbies in the 33rd Brigand Cup at Hellidon Lakes in Daventry. As I have been basking in that glory ever since, we have another short golf-related 54F today. Belt loops – why do...
5-4-Friday… 5 Regurgitated Dad Jokes
It's been a busy old week so I am being extremely lazy with this week's 5-4-Friday. At my last place of employ, each Monday morning I would scribble a proper corny old dad Joke on to a little white board that I had stuck to the fridge door in the work's kitchen....
5-4-Friday… 5 Pub Rants
Here are five things that have been grinding my gears in the pub recently. Reels and videos – if you want to watch your shitty Tol-Tok reels and Insta reels at full blast, go home and do it. No-one is interested. Face Time – stop video-calling your mates and your...
5-4-Friday… 5 Golf Monikers
Apology #1... this is the second golf-related 5-4-Friday in a row. I do have other material and I promise I'll get onto that next week. Apology #2... at this risk of pandering to the ever-growing snowflake and woke brigade, the content of this week's 54F could be...
5-4-Friday… 5 Golf Commentary Things
I love watching the golf on the tele. It’s not just the climax to a major tournament like the Masters or the Open that you can’t take your eyes off, even a mundane, run-of-the-mill European Tour tournament provides perfect background sound and vision. Then there’s the...
5-4-Friday… 5 Random Irks
Maybe it’s the hot weather getting to me a bit but, here are 5 things that have been pissing me off this week… Caps attached to bottles… the latest nanny-statism, designed to make sure we don’t throw away the lid off a bottle of orange juice as they can be dangerous...
8-4-Friday… Makerfield By-Election
For those of you who don’t know, I happen to live in the Makerfield constituency, where last night’s by-election took place. The last few weeks, and especially the last dew days, have been a bit bizarre. Here’s a special extended 8-4-Friday to mark the experience. •...
5-4-Friday… 5 Wiggin Words #2
I once went to watch a Wigan Amateur League cup semi-final match in Platt Bridge, Wigan. It was a filthy day deep in December and the game should never really have been played. The field was a complete mud-bath. I was only there with a few of my team-mates because the...
5-4-Friday… 5 idiotic Christmas things
Well, that’s Christmas all done and dusted for another year. Thank the lord for that. Not that I hate Christmas, I really don’t. I actually quite like it. But, why do people go totally mental for the two weeks around Christmas and New Year, that’s the bit that winds...
For as long as I can remember, certainly since the advent of email, the end of the working week has always been marked by someone circulating a joke, or an amusing picture or article – the Friday Funny, as it became known. I have now evolved this into a regular blog that I call 5-4-Friday, a light-hearted list of 5 favourite things or 5 pet hates ideally related to some burning issue of the day or week.
View From the West is a regular football-based blog with the subject matter normally focusing on events at the club I support, Wigan Athletic, as I see them unfold from my vantage point in the West Stand of the DW Stadium. For non-Wigan fans, wider football issues and talking points will also be given an airing. For a bit of fun, I will scour social and digital media and various fan forums to identify a Hit of the Week, a Miss of the Week and a Pic of the Week.
54T is an occasional variation on 5-4-Friday in which a friend of the site, a minor celebrity (or, god-willing, if it takes off, a not-so-minor celebrity) will tell us which four famous people they would invite round to share a Friday evening chippy tea. We will learn what they would feed them, what drinks would be chilling in the fridge and, when the stimulating conversation dries up, what music they would listen to, what films would they stick in the DVD player and what entertaining games they would play.
3in! is a friendly football prediction competition that has been running for around twelve years now. Participants have to predict the outcome of just three fixtures from the weekend’s football programme with bigger rewards available the more off-the-wall you are prepared to go. It’s my type of gambling – all hypothetical, no real money involved. All the news for the 3in! players can be found on Chris Griffin Says…
Dream League is now beyond its 30th year. It is a fantasy football competition with a difference. Each of the 16 Owners (who should be old enough to know better) buys a squad of players and pits their team against the other 15 Owners in a traditional, home and away league season. Goals your players score are netted off against goals your defenders concede. Out-perform your opponent in the week and you win. Simples! Again, all the up to date news can be found here.
I hope you enjoy the site.
Griff
October, 2012
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