Chris Griffin Says… is taking a well deserved (voted for by me) early break as we approach the end of the calendar year. This is partly due to pressures of work, a plethora of football matches on TV that are currently grabbing my attention, and a modicum of...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… well, there’s no snow on the ground yet but it’s certainly at least starting to feel a bit like Christmas. The Christmas telly mags are in the shops, the brass bands are collecting outside supermarkets and it’s the Sports...
Chinkgate, the sorry race-related episode that has blighted Wigan Athletic and its owner Dave Whelan over the last couple of weeks, has shown us that we have to be vey careful what we say for fear of breaking largely unwritten rules associated with race, homophobia...
If you’ve been to the chippy over the last few days, the chances are your fish and chips will have been lovingly wrapped up in old newspaper pages filled with column after column of vitriolic abuse of Wigan Athletic’s septuagenarian chairman, Dave Whelan. Not that...
My lad is one of a small handful of kids chosen from his class to potentially sit Level 6 SATs at the end of year 6 in June – or at the end of junior school, as it was in my day. He and the other kids in the frame have bee told that if they are to be allowed to...
