View From The West/54F… 5 Latics Legends

View From The West/54F… 5 Latics Legends

One of the Wigan Athletic Facebook fan sites has been running a series of polls to establish the supporters’ all-time favourite Latics XI. This has led to a whole raft of arguments about the final selection, mainly because most of us Wiganers are too daft to...
5-4-Friday… 5 season surprises

5-4-Friday… 5 season surprises

By comparison to its normal dull, predictable English football standards, this has been a funny old season so far. Man United continue their surprising fall from grace, Chelsea are in the bottom half of the table and Leicester City are top of the Premier League. Even...
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...