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...

5-4-Friday… 5 dead shops

Given the ease with which almost any kind of shopping can be done online these days, the need to physically trog around shops is nowhere near the necessary evil that it used to be. Which is a good thing, because I hate shopping – unless I am buying for myself, of...

As Thick As A Carrot : Avoiding Football Clichés, by Jonny Fairclough

Footballers, pundits and fans do like a good cliché or three.  It probably arises from the fact that they can’t make up or simply can’t be bothered making up their own phrases, and I bet there’s a good number who don’t know what a cliché is, other than that ex Arsenal...