5-4-Friday… 5 left backs
The Ballon d’Or was awarded to the best player in the world this week, one Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid. Perhaps there was a slight surprise in some quarters that Ronaldo got the nod over Barcelona’s Lionel Messi but there was never any doubt that the winner would...
Dryathlon, January 2014 – Day 15
Day 15 in the Big Dry House and Chris is in the Diary Room! Things I have learned/confirmed at the end of the second week of staying dry and dieting. 1) Our Thursday Night Football crew, TNF Wigan, cannot think for itself. At least two of my team mates have followed...
5-4-Friday… 5 online things
It’s been a few years now since I had to do this, but the tax man has finally caught up with me and is asking me to submit a self-assessment tax return instead of him working it out from the information he already gets from my employer. I’m not sure what additional...
Dryathlon, January 2014 – Day 8
Day 8 in the Big Dry House and Chris is in the Diary Room! Things I have learned/confirmed in the first week of staying dry and dieting. 1) Trying to match the Thursday Night Football lads' three pints of lager with three pints of orange cordial in even time is not...
5-4-Friday… 5 video games
As a football-mad dad, each Christmas I suffer a slight disappointment that my lad has still not turned into the same kind of soccer nut/bore as I have been for forty-odd years. As the Christmases come and go, this disappointment is slightly tempered by the fact that...
Dryathlon, January 2014 – Day 1
Day 1 in the Big Dry House and Chris is in the Diary Room! Today is the first of 31 days of alcohol abstinence during this (extremely long) month of January. To be truthful, I would have to have been in a pretty bad alcoholic state to be craving booze this early in...
5-4-Friday… 5 plugs
Seeing as it is Christmas, I am going to treat you to a week off from my inane ramblings and incessant book marketing. So, for all you electricians out there, here are my 5 favourite plugs:- ...
5-4-Friday… 5 drunk things
As those who follow the blog via Facebook might have spotted, I have taken the rather rash step of pledging to take the pledge during January. What started off as throwaway comment, as part of a general desire to regain some fitness after Christmas, has now grown legs...
5-4-Friday… 5 bad managers
Following on from last week’s 5 good football managers, here is the promised list of 5 bad managers. But, whereas last week’s was a very subjective list based on those managers that I like, or liked, personally with no real regard to their actual track record, this...
Dryathlete January 2014 – Day -20
“Freddie Star Ate My Hamster” “Elvis Spotted On Moon” “Steven Gerrard Wins Premier League Title” “Griff Gives Up Booze For A Month” A selection of barley believable headlines there, none more so than that last one. But, it’s the only genuine story amongst them....
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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