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I may have mentioned it in passing before now but, for those who it might have passed by, I once wrote a book, you know?. Actually, I wrote three, and they’re all available to buy via some very popular websites, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Football
The 2018 World Cup gets underway in Russia on Thursday. As with the 2016 European Championships, Chris Griffin Says is hosting a prediction competition to raise funds for The Bring Joy Foundation, the charitable arm of Home Instead Senior Care … Continue reading
So, the latest football season ends with Wigan Athletic winning a league, Leicester City winning the league, Liverpool winning nothing and a bomb scare forcing a Manchester United game to be called off. Pretty standard fare, I suppose. The end … Continue reading
People get awfully touchy about death, don’t you think? You’re not really allowed to laugh or make jokes about it and, let’s face it, it’s no laughing matter. My granny used to say “there’s folk dying who’ve never died before” … Continue reading
As I write this, the day before they play Coventry City at home, Wigan Athletic have just six games to go until the end of the season. And what a season it’s been, too. Off the field it has been … Continue reading
Last September, I had what was to be the first of several stays in the Beacon Hotel in Sandyford, Dublin. It sells itself as a ‘boutique’ hotel and, although it’s a little bit Bohemian, it’s a great hotel. All the … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading