5-4-Friday… 5 quirky verbs

5-4-Friday… 5 quirky verbs

The English language is a marvellous thing, it’s a fantastic tool for communication. Which is just as well really because I’m sure we’d all get very frustrated if we had to resort to sign-language or semaphore as a means of getting our point across....
5-4-Friday… 5 coin toss alternatives

5-4-Friday… 5 coin toss alternatives

I read that an Australian referee found a novel way of deciding who would kick-off a Boxing Day A-League football match between Sydney and Central Coast. Instead of tossing a coin, which is, of course, the traditional method, he made the two captains pull a Christmas...
PAUSE for breadth

PAUSE for breadth

Nobody really likes the IT Team in any organisation, do they? They get the blame for everything that goes wrong or is delivered late, even on the odd occasion when it isn’t actually their fault. They are universally eyed with suspicion and generally considered to be...
5-4-Friday… 5 Stars in the Car

5-4-Friday… 5 Stars in the Car

Regular readers will know that I am a bit of a snob when it comes to travelling with work. Not to the extent that I insist on turning left when I board a plane rather going left and sitting in cattle class, or anything like that. I just like things to be totally...
View From The West – 5 more League One things

View From The West – 5 more League One things

We’re almost at the end of November and I have just realised that I haven’t published a football related blog since the back end of last season. At the end of May, once Wigan’s second relegation in two seasons was confirmed, I wrote about how playing...