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: Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:57 am  
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Anyone else still refuse to go into tesco in wigan?

I know a few people that refuse to go but will readily visit Tesco's elsewhere.

What's done is done.
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: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:00 pm  
Meyt N Prater Pie wrote:
Anyone else still refuse to go into tesco in wigan?


I did for about a week but then I realised how many people walk around Asda with their bedies on!
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: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:03 pm  
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I know a few people that refuse to go but will readily visit Tesco's elsewhere.

What's done is done.



It isnt the fact that its tesco. Its the fact its a Central Park burial ground :)
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: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:04 pm  
I did at first - but had to go in one day and when I did I saw Craig Smith and Terry O'Connor shopping in there :D

I think Terry was taking him to see Central Park :)

Now I enjoy going tbh - brings back some crackin memories :(
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: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:14 pm  
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I did at first - but had to go in one day and when I did I saw Craig Smith and Terry O'Connor shopping in there :D

I think Terry was taking him to see Central Park :)

Now I enjoy going tbh - brings back some crackin memories :(


I have never been back since crying that time I took Stuart, not sure I really want to either.
I do have a close friend who has never shopped in a tesco since it all happened! I once bought her a christmas present from Tesco and left the tag on, she gave it me back :shock:
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: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:57 pm  
Meyt N Prater Pie wrote:
It isnt the fact that its tesco. Its the fact its a Central Park burial ground :)

Fair point.

By the way, its an easy place to pull off a "cheap petrol scam".

Half-fill your tank with petrol then replace the nozzle back in the pump.

Go back into your car on the pretence of collecting a wallet or something.

Proceed to completely fill car with petrol.

When you get to the till, they'll only charge for the latter petrol!
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: Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:48 pm  
I remember a match in the late 60's when we were playing like a bunch of tarts and the crowd were booing and very restless - when all of a sudden there was a massive crack of thunder and this guy shouts out from the back of the Popular Side " And thats what he thinks of it as well".
Remember the opening night of the floodlights in 1967 when the lights went out time after time and the crowd all lit up matches.
Getting into the ground with your Dad waiting at the gate of the Hen Pen.
The sevens match when Dave Regan got sent off with some guy for fighting and they carried on fighting all the way to the tunnel and all the way up it.
Fantastic days but I have to say there have already been some great times at the JJB.
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: Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:52 pm  
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Anyone else still refuse to go into tesco in wigan?

I still havent been in and never will :twisted:
I swore I would never go, and up to now, never have.
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: Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:24 am  
One of the most memorable moments i can think ov in my lifetime, was when dennis betts scored against saints, in that farewell to central park match in 1999
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: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:34 pm  
So very many... and reading this thread has reminded me of more. A fantastic place and so very dearly missed.

I used to live in nearby and walked past there, down the Dougy, everyday (and most nights/early mornings 8) )

First memory of the place was going as a very young kid against Leeds in the very early 80's.

Highlights for me were the GB/NZ match, stood in the stand that would become the Whitbread (anyone have a pic from then?) just behind the sticks and giving Alan Tait a bit of abuse when Mann strolled around him!!

Brisbane 92, I just had a feeling we would get stuffed... it was unbelievably cold though!!

Playing there as a schoolboy.

A Young Mick Hancock taking us apart in a Wigan V Aus game, I miss the tours too!

The last game... goes without saying.

Watching Miles and Offiah, a partnership made in heaven, the best ever imho.

Changing ends, normally at half time (partly to be 100m closer to town to get bladdered afterwards!) and missing Offiah score an absolute belter of a try against Cas.

Standing in the Pop near the Sullivan Bar... the Sullivan Bar where you could never get a pint 'cos it was so busy...

Standing on the corner (near the UB40) stand, being in the beer queue and still watching the game.

Coming home in the early hours and noticing the gates were open and going for a sit down and a chill :?

Drunken fumbles with the laydees in doorways down by the river... :twisted:

People camping out down the Dougy for Wembley tickets.

So very many.

I do shop in Tesco, but do find that 'sculpture' offensive to say the least, and as someone said... I still feel the urge to run around there :roll:
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