“Hey Dad, which TV advert is this song from?” asked Alex, as we hurtled down the M53 towards Chester last Saturday. I struggled to answer the question on two separate counts. Firstly, we were listening to Capital FM which, to the best of my knowledge, rarely plays any...
Last Saturday, for the second time around, Wigan Athletic made their debut in the Championship, the second tier of English football. This bow was taken at Oakwell, the home of Barnsley FC, and was watched by over 2,500 Wiganers happy to watching proper football again...
At the height of the recent tedious blanket news coverage that accompanied the recent birth of the new Prince of Cambridge, Alex asked me what name I thought they should give the free-loading leech/tourism revenue generator – delete as appropriate, according to...
It’s quite uncanny how many of the ideas for 5-4-Fridays come to me when I am sat on the couch late at night, guzzling wine and watching an old episode of The West Wing, Mad Men or The Sopranos. Actually, given how much time I spend sitting on the couch late at night,...
The 2013 version of the world’s greatest golf championship has started at Muirfield in Edinburgh. It is one of my favourite television weeks of the sporting year. However, the chances of me watching The Open from the minute the first drive is struck on Thursday...
