5-4-Friday… 5 Facebook Personalities

Seeing my Facebook page utterly unexpectedly reach the dizzy heights of 200 ‘likes’ recently – without, I might add, spending a solitary penny to simply buy more of them, stingy but honourable get that I am – got me thinking about the incredible phenomenon that...

A Time To Live, A Time To Die by Jonny Fairclough

Here is a piece by Jonny Fairclough which appeared in the recent Mudhutter Football Express. It appears with my gratitude for doing some of my work for me and with all due apologies to Mr Emile Heskey, amongst others.  It’s also a bit racier in parts than my...

5-4-Friday… Embarrassing iTunes

When ‘interviewing’ celebrities or sports stars, a number of magazines and newspapers often adopt a question and answer theme with one of their favourite  topics being to ask about the latest tunes they have playing on their iPod. I’m sure some of the respondents...

5-4-Friday… 5 Sayings of Bernard

In my previous job, the lads and lasses in the team I worked in were often confused and amused in equal measure by some of my dubious sayings. Well, it’s not my fault I come from Wigan and therefore have a vast repertoire of bizarre phrases to choose from, is it?  I...

5-4-Friday… 5 Wigan FA cup ties

Tomorrow is FA Cup 3rd round day, the day when the big clubs from the  top two divisions of English football join the oldest and most famous knockout  cup competition in world football . Although the competition has been underway since September,  the first Saturday...