5-4-Friday… 5 Northern Soul Songs
Regular readers of my drivel may already be well aware that, musically, I am more or less stuck in the eighties. In fact I’m not even stuck in all of the eighties; it’s generally just those bits that involved Paul Weller, The Jam (er, Paul Weller) and the Style...
5-4-Friday… 5 Office Animals
I start a new job soon. I am quite looking forward to it but, no matter whom you are, whether you are becoming a little long in the tooth or are still a bit wet behind the ears, it’s always a tad daunting when you start a new job. Everything is a little bit strange,...
5-4-Friday… 5 live footballer performances
Sat in the pub the other week, a mate suggested a 5 all-time favourite footballers theme for 54F. After a bit of a heated debate, we agreed that this was probably too wide a category, as there are oodles of possible variations on this core theme; 5 favourite/best...
5-4-Friday… 5 Maddening Things
Maybe it’s the hot weather, but I haven’t half been a ratty bastard this week. You’d think that kicking my heels at home for a few days would chill me out but it seems to have had quite the opposite effect on me. Perhaps because I have come into contact with people...
5-4-Friday… 5 Cricketers
The only thing worse than Wigan being relegated is that it means it must be the end of the football season with no more matches until August. That can only mean one thing – cricket! I’m not the world’s biggest cricket fan, mainly because I’m bobbins at it, but it’s a...
5-4-Friday… 5 Kids TV Shows
Yesterday, a good friend of mine experienced the deep joy of becoming a father for the first time. In amongst the glee of knowing that he will now, finally, suffer all the inconvenience and both sleep and life deprivation that I suffered through eight years ago, I...
5-4-Friday… 15 steps to giving a cat a tablet
What a roller-coaster of a week this has been? First of all Wigan Athletic only go and win the FA Cup at Wembley Stadium against the mega-rich Manchester City and then, while we are still all as high as kites on euphoria, adrenalin and God knows what else, they go and...
5-4-Friday… 5 FA Cup Finals
I can probably rattle off every FA cup final result from 1970 through to 1990 without even pausing for breath. At a push, I could probably give you ninety per cent of the scorers too. From 1990 onwards the sequence of winners gets a bit hazy, due to a combination of...
5-4-Friday… 5 Refereeing Injustices
As the end to the eight-year wait for Wigan’s “immediate” and inevitable relegation from the Premier League looms ever nearer, Cockney Latic, one of the many Wigan Athletic fan forums out there, has been awash with excuse-making this week. Conveniently forgetting our...
Groundhog Day – hopefully!
This time two years ago, and again one year ago for that matter, Wigan Athletic found thmselves in the midst of a titanic relegation battle. Two years ago, a 1-0 victory on the final day at Stoke City ensured survival in to a 7th season in the Premier League. As a...
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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