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I backed a horse last year at ten to one and it came in at ten past 6 !
The spirit of Tommy Cooper lives on![/quote]
It does indeed ! The horse was that late in finishing, it had to tip toe back to the stable !
The jockey was whipping it like mad and it turned round to him and said ” I don’t know why you are whipping me like that, there’s no one behind us ” !
The jokey on “Teaforthree” will be wearing blue and white stripes. That’s usually my pattern for betting on the horses.Will the jokey have us in stitches with his gags ! :)
Im a born & bred wiganer but have lived in runcorn for the past 9 years now.So you are indeed from Wigan then !
Are there many like me who have no real connection to the town?When I was a wee nipper my sister who is older than me started seeing a wiganer who took me to a few games at Springfield Park.
The first I think was Fulham which was Keegan’s first match in charge of them.
Despite getting elbowed in the head and nearly knocked unconcious when we scored I fell in love with the team.
The only information I could get my hands on back then was a small snippet in the Manchester Evening News…
So I had to get creative and probably used Championship Manager as my main source of knowledge for the team and players coupled with buying the Cockney Latic fanzine from a sports memrobilia shop in Manchester City Centre.
Despite being born a Man U fan I have never looked back since.
I still have a soft spot for them but that turns to burning hatred when they do things like put a shit team out against West Ham on the last day of the season when we stayed up V Sheffield Utd or Potenitally fuck up our European hopes by going out of the cup V Chelsea.
There are thousands of kids like me round Manchester who I am sure if taken to a Wigan game would fall in love just like I did.
How you convince their parents who cant even be arsed to go watch their own teams to take them though is another problem in itself.
Why have they fucked up our European chances by getting beat by Chelsea ?
From Leyland and when I stopped playing football 10 yrs ago I decided that I would start watching it so I started going on with my Brother who has been a fan for 31 yrs !
