5-4-Friday… 5 Wiggin Words

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I had a spot of man flu last weekend. You know the beast, a bit of a cough, a snotty nose, aches and pains and generally feeling under the weather. It’s not enough to make you miss your weekend boozing but you do sneeze now and again and cough a couple of times and...

5-4-Friday… 5 Nineties Smokes

by | May 14, 2015 | , ,

I was on LinkedIn the other night, stalking people. This is, of course, what all normal people resort to doing once they have become bored with stalking people on Facebook. For those who are familiar with LinkedIn, I made the fatal mistake of clicking on that “People...

5-4-Friday… 5 golden moments

by | May 1, 2015 | , , ,

Last week, I reflected on the remarkable demise of Wigan Athletic over the last four years, centring the discussion on the relative merits of the five managers we had in charge during that period. On Tuesday night, Rotherham’s victory over Reading ensured that the...

5-4-Friday… 5 office gripes

by | Mar 26, 2015 | , ,

It’s amazing the little things that can cause a row at home. There are things that you do that you think is perfectly acceptable behaviour that really winds up your partner and can cause the most horrific, pointless rows. And vice versa, of course; there are little,...

 

54F-square-orig_75x75For 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.

vftw_square_75x75View 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-square-orig_clipped_75x7554T 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.

predictionleague_clipped_75x753in! 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…

dreamleague_blue_original_75x75Dream 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.

griff_clipped_250X150I hope you enjoy the site.

Griff

October, 2012

 

 

 

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