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Match Day Thread Hull City v Wigan

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Chazz Rheinhold, Sep 14, 2019.

  1. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    terrys got to get this right today.
    I think he will
    Get to see the boy David today too
    All good
    City win 3-1
     
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  2. Sir Cheshire Ben

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    Wigan are pie munchers & they’re ****.

    City 3 nowt.
     
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  3. balkan tiger

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    Wigan famous for a pier which it may or may not have, or had.
     
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  4. DMD

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    Birth place of Heinz baked beans, Pataks Indian foods, Potters herbal remedies and Uncle Joe's Mint Balls.

    Thomas Beecham first manufactured his famous pills in Wigan.

    Marks and Spencer was born in Wigan when Michael Marks joined forces with Thomas Spencer in 1894.

    As a sort of Hull connection, the folk-rockers the Tansads are from Wigan.

    George Formby Senior first named it Wigan Pier.

    Wigan's war memorial was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed red telephone boxes.

    During its heyday, the town featured at least 1,000 coal pit shafts.

    Wigan Borough has roughly the same population as Iceland.

    Wigan has more pie shops per square mile than any other town in the UK.

    The World Pie Eating Championships are held in Wigan every year and contestants from all over compete to eat a meat and potato pie in the fastest possible time. The current record is 38 seconds.

    The 19th Century Coal-Owner, Lord Crawford of Balcarres had dinner services made from the unusually hard and clean 'cannel' coal found in his Wigan seams. He would amaze his guests by ceremonially burning their plates on an open fire after the meal.
     
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  5. balkan tiger

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    Not wanting to be a pendant but was Beecham's famous for his powder?
     
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  6. DMD

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    It depends if you couldn't give a ****, or thought it was nothing to be sneezed at.
     
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  7. originallambrettaman

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    I'm afraid that beans one isn't correct, their birth place was in the US, they'd been sold in the UK for almost thirty years before Heinz opened their first UK factory, which wasn't in Wigan.

    Though Wigan is currently home to the world's biggest baked bean factory.
     
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  8. DMD

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    They were only embryo's and not worth a fart until Wigan.
     
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  9. originallambrettaman

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    Wigan's biggest claim to fame...

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  10. City Man

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    One of life's many regrets- wish I'd attended the bastard.
     
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    0-1

    Such is life
     
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  12. Lincoln Tiger

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    Did it once - very under age - it was bloody great!
     
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  13. Girt Bucket

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    Ah Wigan Away - F.A Cup 3rd Round. Crossing The Pennines In The Year That Froze. Horrendous It Was. Geovanni Clipping In A Nice Free Kick. Donkey Halmosi & Kilbane. And We Lost.
     
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  14. Mr Hatem

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    You old misery guts.
     
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  15. Mr Hatem

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    OK. What about visiting the Wigan Casino though?
     
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  16. Howdentiger2

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    4-2 city... Got a feeling we will take the chances today, either that or Marshall outs in a MOTM performance
     
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  17. City Man

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    Heard a lot about it at the time, used to see knackered kids arriving back at Paragon sunday morning with the holdalls, but youth culture was very tribal back then. Although used to know kids who went occasionally, but could see it was a complex multi layered hierarchical thing with hundreds of 'obscure' songs known by the cognoscenti but not to 'outsiders', you couldn't just turn up and blend in. Ditto the dancing. .

    Also heard many a football rivalry was 'settled' there, and even a few unlikely football friendships made.

    It was great that it was so 'off grid' to the media and was able to flourish underground in a way that punk failed to do.

    Frankie Valli's The Night.....watch this lass go!


     
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    Worth a watch if you can find it on Netflix etc.
     
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  19. Newland Tiger

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    No mention of George Orwell ?
     
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  20. balkan tiger

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    If I remember well he never even went to Wigan.
     
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