Lancashire Rivals

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Outback Ozzy

But when all is said and done, there are 6 Lancashire league teams - Blackburn, Burnley, Preston, Blackpool, Morecambe and the best of all Accrington Stanley. Nuff said

Make that 4, Blackpool and Blackburn opted out of Lancashire

[Redash]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

Make that 4, Blackpool and Blackburn opted out of Lancashire

Their loss.

[RedRose]

For those that don't know where they live in Lancashire, please look at the following web site www.forl.co.uk and you will be enlightened.
The flag as my Avatur is the Legal flag of Lancashire.

[Oggy]

Originally Posted by RedRose

The flag as my Avatur is the Legal flag of Lancashire.

What are the illegal flags of Lancashire? Discuss

An intellegant (sic) schoolboy's history of Lancashire. Oh dear.

Still if it keeps you off the streets.

[MikeA]

Originally Posted by Oggy

What are the illegal flags of Lancashire?

This one?

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by MikeA

Not according to mab's map...

Sorry your right MikeA and Sorry to Bob as well, I always class Tranmere as Merseyside, whch it is of course, but its in Cheshire according to mab' maps

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

Make that 4, Blackpool and Blackburn opted out of Lancashire

Looks like Burnley did last night only 3760 turned up at the Dingle Dome

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Looks like Burnley did last night only 3760 turned up at the Dingle Dome

Times are hard, poaching is not paying very well these days.

QPR must be sick, knocked out by a goal 30 seconds from the end of injury time and a share of the gate after expenses, which probably amounts to about £2.30p per club. At least we get £75k for winning it.

[Outback Ozzy]

Originally Posted by RedRose

For those that don't know where they live in Lancashire, please look at the following web site www.forl.co.uk and you will be enlightened.
The flag as my Avatur is the Legal flag of Lancashire.

The quote at the bottom of the website says it all, it is correct when it states we live in Lancashire, but Greater Manchester, Merseyside et al are not part of Lancashire and haven't been for a long time (1972 if memory serves me correctly). Ask the residents of Southport, They want to come back, they hate being classed as scousers, they are too dignified for that hee hee.

[pud]

I am from Lancashire and was born in Radcliffe and support Bury and yes in my mind we are Lancashire!

[Bob Dobson]

Let's get this reyt.
Lancashire is the same size as it has always been. For some administrative purposes, the 'counties' of Greater manchester, Merseyside and Cumbria were created in 1974 and parts of the Red Rose county were then administered by those bodies. In 1989, Maggie dissolved Greater Manchester & Merseyside when she dissolved Greater London.Certain metropolian boroughs, called unitary authorities, were created ( and later Blackburn & Blackpool joined them ) The fact that they administer themselves or , as in the case of
the Lonsdale area of Lancashire are administered by Cumbria CC, does not take away the fact that these towns such as Wigan, Southport) are still, and always will be, in Lancashire.

Google 'Friends of Real Lancashire'

Red Rose - I applaud you.

I quote you the opening verse of a dialect poem , 'A Lancashire Mon' written by a
Blackburn chap, Henry Yates a hundred years ago:

Ah wer born among th'ills, but Ah'm Lanky
There's no hafe an'hafe abeawt me
It's deawn in mi Granny's owd Bible
-Both sides of a long pedigree.
Ah've no need to simper and' sidle,
Nor finnicky airs to put on-
Ah belong to th'owd palatine ceawnty
Ah'm a streytforrad Lancashire mon.

It goes on to tell the world how bloody good it is to be a Lancastrian

[Tony Montana]

You wouldn't believe how many sites I've seen this discussion on after posting this thread !!

Just a note, we're looking for a moderator for the lower league section of LR so if any on here fancy it, pm one of the admin on there.

Thanks again.

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