5-4-Friday… 5 5-a-siders
There was an interesting piece doing the rounds on Facebook and Twitter this week which picked out some common traits to be found in a typical 5-a-side line up. The author identified 19 different types of personality to be found on your average 5-a-side Astroturf...
5-4-Friday… 5 long runners
I love a good sports autobiography, especially if there is a bit of salacious gossip in it that gives a bit more of an insight into what happens behind the closed doors of a top club or team. The nine month pre-amble to Kevin Pietersen’s recently published...
5-4-Friday… 5 Bench Warmers (View From The West)
It’s been the numbers game all the way this week down at the Wigan Athletic forums this week. Or the Fickle-as-Feck Funny Farm, as it could more accurately be called. 4-4-2, 4-5-1, 5-4-1, 4-3-3… the arguments have raged amongst the armchair football managers as to...
5-4-Friday… 5 project things
I suppose it is my blog, so I shouldn’t have to apologise for the subject matter of my own 5-4-Friday, even if this week’s offering is work-related once again. But, I tend to write about what’s on my mind at the time and, aside from a few hours’ sleep and the odd...
5-4-Friday… 5 decent jobs
What a week at work this has been! To trot out some well-worn Wigan phrases, I am tireder than a galley slave, tireder than a rikshaw driver and tireder than a Blackpool donkey when Vanessa Feltz is in town. There hasn’t been time to do anything other than work, work,...
5-4-Friday… 5 Dream League Deals
Very brief 5-4-Friday this week, as my limited leisure time has seen me totally pre-occupied with the pre-season auction night for the Dream League. With sincere apologies to those who are not remotely interested – which I guess is everybody bar the 16 people who were...
5-4-Friday… 5 taboo subjects
Having recently embarked on an attempt to grow a beard for the first time in my 34 years - What? What are you looking at me like that for? - I have been quite surprised at people’s reaction to it. Flatteringly, some have remarked that they like it, others have made...
5-4-Friday… 5 media fails
This 5-4-Friday is very brief, due to numerous commitments this week, but has been inspired by the media-naïve antics of Iain Moody and Malkay Mackay, both ex of Cardiff City football club. Their media woes sparked a bit of a post-TNF shout–out about sporting people...
5-4-Friday… 5 Annoying Footballers (VFTW)
Nani finally left Manchester United this week, albeit on loan. As a neutral, he’s no great loss to me. Neither, I suspect, will be there many a tear shed by the Old Trafford faithful at his departure. Actually, I am glad to see the back of him. If ever there was a...
5-4-Friday… 5 soccer season starters
Honestly, I do try to keep my 5-4-Fridays as topical as possible and vaguely related to what’s been happening somewhere along the line during my week. At the moment, that would mainly limit me to talking about working twelve hour days (no violins, please) or sitting...
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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