Re: So where is Widnes then?? : Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:41 am  

Pepe wrote:

It runs through Manchester too. Do you think they are Merseysiders?

Still part of the same shovel

One of my close friends is a Widnesian, not a rugby fan but an LFC fan. To everyone at work he is known as a scouser, sounds a colleague from Liverpool, and when asked he understands why people think Widnes is in Liverpool because when it was going on Liverpool City of Culture was plastered everywhere, everyone supports Liverpool or Everton and its Merseyside Police.

Even he doesn't know how to class himself, he says its a generation thing.

Re: So where is Widnes then?? : Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:53 am  

Haighy wrote:

everyone supports Liverpool or Everton and its Merseyside Police.

Oh dear.

Probably about twice as many Man U as Everton fans in Widnes.

And it's Cheshire Constabulary.

Re: So where is Widnes then?? : Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:00 am  

Fax4Life wrote:

After hearing some of their fans sing Lancashire today it seems like they don't know where they are from
Is it Cheshire, Merseyside or Lancashire???

Maybe Cheshire don't want them after all and they are being relegated back to the Red Rose county

Widnes is now in the unitary authority of Halton, so presumably, it isn't even in Cheshire any more! Geographically it is part of Lancashire. It is on the River Mersey, but has never been part of the county of Merseyside, unlike Southport and St Helens which are nowhere near the Mersey! I, however, am from the Wirral, and consider myself to be from Cheshire even though it was moved into Merseyside in 1973.

In RL terms, Widnes is and will always be Lancashire.

It so happens my best mate is from Halifax, though bizarrely, has always supported Widnes!

Anyway, hard luck Fax, we'll see you next month for a rematch (and no, I'm not gloating and wasn't there).

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:13 am  

judging by the postcodes, just a suburb of Warrington. Am i right?, I'm not wrong.... (ducks his head and awaits incoming)

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:07 am  

The river Mersey runs through Stockport and Warrington also, I suppose they are scouse too?
Nah all said and done I am not too fussed, if people are ignorant enough to say we are Liverpudlians or W**es then fine, it makes it quite amusing actually.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:14 am  

Bertie Magoo's PA wrote:

The river Mersey runs through Stockport and Warrington also, I suppose they are scouse too?
Nah all said and done I am not too fussed, if people are ignorant enough to say we are Liverpudlians or W**es then fine, it makes it quite amusing actually.

at the end of the day berie atleast we don't shag sheep

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:48 am  

Gregory Peck wrote:

at the end of the day berie atleast we don't shag sheep

Nah we just steal people's stereo's and rob our way through the towns of the M62 corridor. Laaa

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:16 pm  

Honours
Championship: 1977-78, 1987-88, 1988-89 (3 times)
Challenge Cup: 1929-30, 1936-37, 1963-64, 1974-75, 1978-79, 1980-81, 1983-84 (7 times)
Premiership: 1979-80, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90 (6 times)
Lancashire Cup: 1945-46, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76, 1977-78, 1978-79, 1990-91 (7 times)
Lancashire League: 1919-20
Regal Trophy: 1975-76, 1978-79, 1991-92 (3 times)
BBC2 Floodlit Trophy: 1977-78
World Club Challenge: 1989-90
European Champions: 1989
Charity Shield: 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91 (3 times)
Northern Ford Premiership: 2001
Northern Rail Cup: 2007

That'll do for me

Re: So where is Widnes then?? : Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:35 pm  

Steve Fox wrote:

Oh dear.

Probably about twice as many Man U as Everton fans in Widnes.

And it's Cheshire Constabulary.

I wouldn't know, my mate who lives in Widnes would.

Re: So where is Widnes then?? : Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:39 pm  

Haighy wrote:

I wouldn't know, my mate who lives in Widnes would.

Sounds like a plastic scouser who knows .... all to be honest.

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