[walkinman221]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I really wouldn't consider it 'knocking' Accrington.......after all he isn't as far as I know comparing it to Wigan and saying Wigan is better.

Accrington does feel very 'down at heel'....and I have visited lots of other northern towns...so I rather think he is portraying the town without the benefits of the rose coloured spectacles.

To be fair margaret i didnt say he was comparing it to wigan , it is just a case of people in glass houses and all that.And i also actually agreed with him in a way and you, in that accy is a bit of a dump but we dont need pie munchers to tell us that