Only in Wigan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7685088.stm

Relative of yours Will?

Too many pies while he was in there?

Saw this earlier but don't know how to post links and was afraid of the grief I would get if I asked someone else to.
It's 25 years since I left Wigan. Leaving felt quite a lot like being dragged out of a chimney; you're embarrassed, you know it'll take a while to live down but the alternative is to stay in there till you die.

Since when do supermarkets have chimneys?

Since when do supermarkets have chimneys?

You can't build anything in Lancashire without a chimney - it's something to do with the Child Employment (Northern) Act....

You can't build anything in Lancashire without a chimney - it's something to do with the Child Employment (Northern) Act....

Plus it helps meet Government targets for keeping the North "grim"...

wiganwilly

Plus it helps meet Government targets for keeping the North "grim"...

In reality it's an elaborate stratagem to keep southerners away...

I thought northerners were an elaborate stratagem to keep southerners away...

It's a twin-pronged strategy...

But there's also the fact that it's been grim so long it's now being managed by English Heritage. The entire Northern "grimness" is Grade 2 listed now. They have to maintain it.

Grim.

Indeed.

Blimey Platini - Wigan's changed a lot since I was last there.

Keep up Andy, the topic's been broadened to take in the entire north of England now.
(Trans from Londonese: north = anywhere up from Harrow).

What has happened to Will?

self-exile

Why?

It was written in Marie Claire as the last super cool trend.

Fair enough.

What has happened to Will?

He won a large sum of money on the Euro Millions lottery, and has been too busy snorting coke off the breasts of a page three lovely to post recently.

When his epic, but slightly cliched* debauch has run it's course and Gemma, 19 from Gravesend has elicited most of his winnings he'll doubtless be back.

*He is, after all, from the North

Back by Tuesday then.

To entice Will back and make him feel at home

http://www.chelseasupportersgroup.net/2012/08/driver-on-the-wings-weather-for-wigan-v-chelsea-2/