the Dream league – 2014 Season Preview Part 1

the Dream league – 2014 Season Preview Part 1

As the 2014 Dream League gets underway, here is an analysis of the chances of each of the 16 participating managers. Manager’s prospects for the new season are subject to a weighted analysis based on the current and past season scoring exploits of the players bought...
the Dream league – 2014 Season Preview Part 1

5-4-Friday… 5 Transfer Window Things

This week we have all mainly been pre-occupied with football transfer windows, apart from the Manchester United and Newcastle United management teams, of course. First of all we had the on-going saga of the worldwide football leagues’ transfer window or the “What...
5-4-Friday… 5 Rip-offs

5-4-Friday… 5 Rip-offs

Those of you who are still here after last week’s birthday blog will recall a tale I told about Alex’s new Wii U game, Disney Infinity. I remarked how the game-makers had hit on a commercial gold mine by introducing additional character figures that can be bought and...

5-4-Friday… 5 ex-toddler things

Alex turned nine earlier this week and it’s fair to say that his birthday was one of the easiest, less stressful birthdays we have ever had. The main reason for this was that the present he desperately wanted is a new Wii game called Disney something or other –...

5-4-Friday #2 – 5 ‘news’ stories that are winding us up

After TNF (Thursday Night Football for the uninitiated) the short car journey back from Robin Park into Wigan town centre for a re-fuelling pint is usually an opportunity to mercilessly slag off someone’s earlier poor performance on the Astroturf. Usually, someone who...