The site is owned by Wigan Council but is currently being managed by a firm of contractors. |
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For years Leeds were the team who didn't quite cut it against the key rivals, Wigan and Bradford. |
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Today, there were hourly buses between Buxton and Stockport, New Mills and Piccadilly, Barrow and Piccadilly, Southport, Wigan and Piccadilly. |
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As his train pulled out of Wigan on the way back to London he noticed something which led to this justly famous passage. |
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The riders, although mostly local, did draw supporters from as far afield as Wigan and the Furness peninsula. |
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Oh, and a wrap of whizz for those all-nighters at Wigan Casino or the Mecca in Blackpool. |
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If they do win, it really will be a magnificent team performance but I would not bet against Wigan in this. |
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The scheme is also fully supported by the Wigan and Bolton Health Authority, with whom the hospice has a contract for service provision. |
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Wigan were surprisingly all fingers and thumbs at times in their first home game of the new campaign. |
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Their punishing tactics were too much for Wigan whose schoolboy errors were embarrassing considering the magnitude of the occasion. |
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Now aged 70, Prof Meadow was educated at a grammar school in Wigan and studied at Oxford University. |
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The Wigan game was always going to be a tight one and as it turned out the one goal that won the game came by virtue of a disputed penalty. |
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A play celebrating the rise and fall of the legendary Wigan Casino is coming to Lowton. |
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Once the trees have been chipped, the material is collected to be used at the Wigan Road centre for landscaping. |
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There have been sightings of roe deer in Bolton town centre, water voles on the streets of Wigan and bats in Manchester city centre. |
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Wigan are set to play in their black strip and the Bulls, as top qualifiers, have been allocated the home dressing room. |
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The Wigan game last year showed the demand for top class RL and the scramble for tickets was amusing to watch. |
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Residents are set to fight plans for a proposed link road to ease traffic congestion between Wigan and Atherton. |
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Wigan prides itself as being the home of the pie, with its inhabitants known as pie eaters. |
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High school pupils who have written plays about car crime dangers saw their work premiered at Wigan Pier. |
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The festival closes at 2pm with words of wisdom from Wigan scriptwriter Paul Finch who will conduct a question and answer session. |
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Police, transport chiefs and Wigan Council have launched a pioneering scheme to kick criminals off buses. |
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All credit to Wigan, they played well today and they are a very capable team. |
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But more of the same is now needed from the portly packman who never really had the chance to shine at Wigan. |
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A rugby league superkid from York is in line to smash a British try-scoring record set by Wigan Warriors star Simon Haughton. |
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Mums, dads and their children could be relocated as far away as Liverpool or Wigan under the scheme. |
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Developers have submitted an outline proposal to Wigan Council to build eight homes. |
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When he rose to fame as a uncatchable winger with the all-conquering Wigan rugby league side, he found the temptations too strong. |
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Born in Wigan and apprenticed in London, he failed in trade, and from 1643 worked as a cowhand in Surrey. |
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In most Wigan mines, though, the standard headgear was a woven scarf or shawl, the standard footwear the clog. |
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And Jewell knows he is now facing up to a severe test of his managerial skills as Wigan aim to set off on a winning run. |
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Things must have seemed to be going his way as he prepared his flask of coffee and headed to Wigan for work. |
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I began as the Agent for Wigan where I learned a great deal which stood me in good stead later at Knutsford. |
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However, forthcoming successive games at Wigan and West Ham should tell whether Leeds are able to mount a sustained challenge. |
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Coun Brian Baldwin, Wigan council's cabinet member for leisure and culture, presented Derrick with his award. |
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Wigan fans will always remember the trademark little shuffle and an explosive burst for a long-range try. |
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The Rhinos are quoted at 11-10, Bradford are 5-2, St Helens 9-2 and Wigan at 6-1, while promoted Leigh are the 1,000-1 rank outsiders. |
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Fortunately, they were found safe and well in Wigan town centre the following day. |
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A computer programmer from Wigan has gone into hiding after winning the jackpot on TV's Who Wants to be A Millionaire? |
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Playing in the Premiership was my aim and Wigan gave me that opportunity. |
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If you were building a hide from which to observe them in their natural habitat, you would probably situate it somewhere in the north-west between Liverpool and Wigan. |
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What would the Wigan pie eater have done in such circumstances? |
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Wigan and Leigh College offers an industry-led academic course in fashion technology that provides the foundation for a range of careers in the industry. |
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Australian stand-off Julian O'Neill's penalty after 24 minutes nosed Wigan ahead after Craig Smith had been judged to have been held down in the tackle. |
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Wigan Magistrates Court was told yesterday that the offences related to nine puppies, a kitten, a hamster, mice, a rat, a canary and a bearded dragon lizard. |
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Cath has responsibility for eight function rooms at the Pier complex and also caters at Wigan council and Wigan Culture and Leisure Trust venues across the town. |
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Wigan council is backing the project, which will also see new street lighting and CCTV cameras installed along the canal towpath through the pier site. |
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He had tried to rob the off-licence on Swinley Lane, Wigan, waving the sword at the woman assistant before vaulting the counter, only to find he couldn't open the till. |
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So, it is as you were in the table, with Wigan leading the way on goal difference only from Sunderland, with Ipswich a further three points behind. |
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Wigan proved there is life after Andy Farrell by edging arch-rivals St Helens in front of a record Super League crowd of 25,004 at the JJB Stadium. |
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But the knockers were silenced when Wigan claimed their first piece of silverware in four years, thanks to a 21-12 success over their bitter rivals. |
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Before leaving his home for Wigan at about 4.35 am on February 28, he had a mug of sweet tea and as he drove westward, he drank coffee from a flask. |
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By 1976 the group had 100 members and associates and it went on a year later to start a group in Rochdale, following by further organisations in Wigan and Bury. |
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Wigan and Oldham are the best places in the area to fill up if you are looking to save the pennies, with the cheapest garages there selling unleaded petrol at 79.9p a litre. |
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Trains between Southport, Wigan Wallgate and Piccadilly will be diverted and re-timed and will not call at Westhoughton and Bolton tonight and tomorrow. |
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Following their 1991 grand final victory, Gould travelled with the Panthers to England for the 1991 World Club Challenge which was lost to Wigan. |
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It is quite noticeably different from the accent spoken in adjacent towns such as Wigan and Bolton despite them being within Greater Manchester. |
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The later mills were on the fringe of the spinning area in Wigan and Stockport, Availability of labour was cited as a reason. |
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On the western side it reached Wigan by 1781, replacing the earlier and unsatisfactory Douglas Navigation. |
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The Leigh Branch from Wigan leads to the Bridgewater Canal and thus to Manchester and the Midlands. |
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The Flyers started the 1948 season as Wigan RLFC but moved to Fleetwood after racing a few away fixtures billed as Wigan. |
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Most of Greater Manchester is part of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, apart from Wigan which lies within the Diocese of Liverpool. |
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Wigan Pier, best known from George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier, was the name of a wharf on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan. |
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Five substantial faults affect the Wigan Coalfield running nearly parallel to and equidistant from each other. |
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In the late 1950s some smaller collieries were closed in the Wigan and Burnley areas as was Deane Colliery in Bolton. |
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In the year 1859 there were 68 fatal accidents in Manchester district and 57 in Wigan and St Helens. |
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Individual mistakes proved costly for Wigan who, particularly after the half-time introduction of Hugo Rodallega, dominated for long periods. |
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In May 2015 a direct train service to Manchester and onwards to Wigan Wallgate was reinstated. |
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The Leeds and Liverpool canal brought people from Liverpool, Manchester, Bolton and Wigan amongst others. |
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It was route one football from Wigan with Rodallega latching onto Al Habsi's long clearance after it was misjudged by Aaron Hughes. |
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But Wigan undid their good work by conceding an avoidable second goal deep into first-half injury time. |
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It was really no easy matter to build up two or three plies of double warp Wigan with a thin covering of rubber to the accurate gauge that the printer required. |
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West Ham v Wigan Athletic, today 3pm AVRAM GRANT sends West Ham out to play for his survival against relegation rivals Wigan today. |
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I hope that stops at two racists in Wigan, not snowballing to 2,000 or 20,000 racists in Wigan. |
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So far he has spent pounds 200 on hi-fi equipment plus some opera CDs for his Spar shop in Appley Bridge, near Wigan. |
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Louise's body was found in a field behind Billinge Hospital, five miles from her home in Appley Bridge, Wigan. |
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A BABY-FACED Tranmere line-up emerged with some credit from an emphatic Puma Youth Alliance defeat at Wigan Athletic. |
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But Wigan held on for a victory which dumps Bolton and Backburn into the drop zone. |
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On the Wigan Robin Park show, Ryan Farrag will open his account against 1-1 John Riley in the bantamweight division. |
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The Wigan athlete's high spot was a second roun 4-3 victory over top seed Eva Calvo Gomez. |
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Danny Washbrook's try moved Wakefield back ahead and Lyne went over four minutes from time to claim the win and knock Wigan off top spot. |
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I will feel no animosity towards Mackay at Wigan but, unthinkably just six months ago, I will not be praising the man either. |
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The Victoria County History has several disparaging descriptions of the Wigan area in the early 20th century. |
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In some studies, part of Wigan in Greater Manchester is considered part of the Liverpool metropolitan area. |
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The regional leaders' forum, 4NW, an unelected quango, is based on Waterside Drive in Wigan. |
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On 21 June 1819 an Act of Parliament was enacted to create a link between this extension and the Wigan branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. |
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No other city in Germany participates in this exchange of envoys, and in Britain, only one other town, Wigan, receives and sends an envoy. |
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Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post. |
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For example, mining was a key industry in Wigan and Leigh in Greater Manchester, and in Ossett in Yorkshire. |
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The M58 crosses the southernmost part of the county from the M6 near Wigan to Liverpool via Skelmersdale. |
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One of these, the trade union official Frank Meade, suggested Wigan, where Orwell spent February staying in dirty lodgings over a tripe shop. |
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In May 1996, Bath Rugby and Wigan RLFC made history by playing against each other at both codes. |
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The team dates back to 1904 when they played against a mixture of Welsh and Scottish players in Wigan. |
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At Central Park, Wigan the ground was muddy and in poor condition, however the match went ahead. |
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However, Wigan Warriors are the most successful club overall, having won 21 British Championships. |
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Helens and Leeds respectively, Wigan have now equalled St Helens's record of losing five Grand Finals. |
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During this period in the late 80's and early 90s Wigan dominated both the Championship and Challenge Cup. |
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On 21 November 1872, Wigan Football Club was founded by members of Wigan Cricket Club following a meeting at the Royal Hotel, Standishgate. |
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The club moved and played its home games at the then Wigan Cricket Club at Prescott Street just off Frog Lane. |
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The last game was on 28 April 1902 when Wigan beat the Rest of Lancashire Senior Competition. |
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On 6 September 1902, Wigan played at Central Park for the first time in the opening match of the newly formed First Division. |
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Between 1906 and 1923 Wigan won the Lancashire League another seven times and the Lancashire Cup another four times. |
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He later became one of the most successful and famous Wigan players of all time. |
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In 1966, Wigan locked television cameras out of their ground in the belief that they affected attendances. |
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Even though Wigan dominated rugby league from 1985 to 1995, it was the only season the club achieved this feat. |
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Wigan coach Stuart Raper was sacked as head coach of the club on 29 July 2003 due to a lack of success. |
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Harlequins RL chairman and lifelong Wigan rugby league fan Ian Lenagan bought the club from Dave Whelan promising to start a new era at Wigan. |
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Under new coach Michael Maguire Wigan started the new season with a 38 to 6 win over the Crusaders. |
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Wigan won their opening 4 games to take them to the top of the Super League table. |
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On 27 August 2011, Wigan won the Challenge Cup final against Leeds at Wembley Stadium. |
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Wigan extended their record to 30 Challenge Cup Finals, winning 19 of them. |
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Until 1886, the Wigan team played in blue and white hooped jerseys before changing the colours to cherry and white hoops. |
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Wigan became known as the Wigan Warriors and had a new club crest with the words Warriors and a warrior on it. |
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The first rugby match at Springfield Park was played on 14 September 1901 and was between Wigan and Morecambe in front of 4,000 spectators. |
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The record rugby attendance for the ground was 10,000 achieved on 19 March 1902 when Wigan beat Widnes. |
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Forty days later Wigan played their last game at Springfield Park when they defeated the Rest of Lancashire Senior Competition. |
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In 1902 Wigan moved to their purpose build rugby ground called Central Park. |
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Central Park would be the home of Wigan Rugby League until 1999 when they moved to the newly built JJB Stadium. |
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As Wigan developed into one of the most famous rugby league clubs in the world, Central Park also became one of the most famous. |
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The DW Stadium is shared by both Wigan Warriors Rugby League club and Wigan Athletic Football Club. |
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In 2010 Wigan were officially the best supported club in Super League with a higher average attendance than nearest rivals Leeds Rhinos. |
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From early 2008, the Wigan fans have often chanted to the tune of The Entertainer. |
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Wigan became the first club in the country to receive Sport England's Clubmark Gold Award. |
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During this decade, the recognisable 'red vee' strip first appeared in 1961 for the final against Wigan. |
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In his first season, McClennan took St Helens to the 1991 Challenge Cup Final, where they were defeated by 13 points to 8 by Wigan. |
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Daniel Anderson was appointed as coach, Millward was then made coach of archrivals Wigan. |
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Indeed, many of St Helens current and past squads call areas like Widnes, Wigan, Cumbria and Oldham home. |
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Leeds eventually returned to Wembley for a Challenge Cup Final appearance in 1994 against Wigan. |
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Leeds returned to Wembley a year later, again to face Wigan again, but were beaten more easily. |
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Three further matches, each involving Wigan, were staged in the early 1990s with the 1994 match being staged in Australia. |
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George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier gives a bleak overview of the hardships of the time. |
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However it was later announced that due to Mike Gregorys commitments to Wigan Warriors, McGinty will continue to coach the side. |
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Wigan Warriors player Joe Lydon came on as a substitute despite him being there as manager. |
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Wigan had N'Zogbia sent off late on but Squillaci headed into his own net to give the home side a deserved point. |
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Bale scored his first goal of the season on 24 September 2011, in an away game against Wigan Athletic. |
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He scored his third brace of the season as he scored twice against Wigan, on 31 January to take his tally to ten goals for the season. |
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A 15kg iron meteorite fell on October 13 at Appley Bridge, Wigan, Lancashire. |
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The truck was on its way to JJB Sports HQ in Wigan when the shirt-lifters struck. |
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Wigan Warrior Sam Tomkins may not be an MK Dons fan, but the rugby league star was born in Milton Keynes. |
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Saints visit Huddersfield, Warrington go to Wigan and Catalan are at home to Castleford. |
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They were happy to sneak out of Highbury with only a 2-0 defeat, went down far too easily to Wigan and capitulated catastrophically in Bucharest. |
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Is it better to come in on the back of some convincing wins, like Saints, or having just played in a highintensity nailbiter, as Wigan have? |
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Leeds Rhinos prize for finishing top at the end of the 23-match programme is home advantage against 2014 Grand Finalists St Helens and Wigan. |
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Sam Allardyce sent out his men well aware that many of the Gunners were cream-crackered from being taken to the wire by Wigan 72 hours earlier. |
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Playing at centre, Lydon first took a pass from Kevin Tamati to outspring the Wigan cover defence from deep inside his own half. |
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The 29-year-old former Queen of the South striker headed the winning goal in extra-time as Gillingham beat Wigan 3-2 to claim promotion. |
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Gillingham are without Nyron Nosworthy and John Hills after the pair were shown their fifth yellows of the season against Wigan. |
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It has the words G Formby and Wigan on the case and a George Formby plate on the peghead. |
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There are key away games at Reading, Wigan Athletic, Villa and, penultimately, Fulham. |
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I thought Horney was a certain scorer near the end and full credit to Wigan. |
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He was even made the subject of tribute T-shirts, which Liverpool players inadvisably wore in the warm-up for a match at Wigan. |
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The on-loan Wigan midfielder hit a low inswinging corner to the near post, taking a flick off Lions striker Rob Hulse on the way into the net. |
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Two meetings were held by Wigan members during the season to discuss the possibility of turning the club into a Limited Company but the idea did not take off. |
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Southport railway station has a frequent service of trains to Liverpool and a regular service to Wigan, Bolton, Manchester and Manchester Airport. |
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During this season Wigan won the Lancashire Senior Competition. |
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It offers views over the Greater Manchester Urban Area, including Manchester city centre, the Civic Centre in Oldham, Salford, Werneth Low, Wigan and Bolton. |
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In 1720 the River Douglas near Wigan and the rivers Irwell and Mersey were made navigable providing a more efficient and cheaper method of transporting coal. |
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Wigan however remained in the Lancashire Senior Competition. |
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In 1895 Wigan joined with other clubs from Yorkshire and Lancashire to found the Northern Union which led eventually to the sport of rugby league. |
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In 1884, Wigan won its first trophy, the West Lancashire Cup. |
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Accrington, Blackburn, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Chorley, Colne, Darwen, Manchester, Nelson, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale and Wigan were major cotton mill towns during this time. |
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Most pits were very small and shallow and Wigan and its neighbourhood was noted for having numerous cannel pits which families could access from under their property. |
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The county is the only place in the UK to have a fully orbital motorway, the M60, which passes through all of the boroughs except Bolton and Wigan. |
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Lindsay returned to Wigan in 1999 for his second stint at the club after Sir Rodney Walker, then chairman of the RFL, sacked him after a campaign to unseat him failed. |
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In August 1996 Ireland beat Scotland at the RDS Arena in Dublin as a curtain raiser to the charity shield match between Leeds Rhinos and Wigan Warriors. |
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The game was memorable for a length of the field try by Martin Offiah, considered by many to be one of the greatest tries ever scored, which clinched the game for Wigan. |
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The central defender, who will be a free agent in the summer, saw Billy Mckay join Wigan and Graeme Shinnie sign a precontract deal with Aberdeen. |
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In all league encounters between the two since 1895, there have been 235 games, with Wigan having won nearly double the amount of games that St Helens have. |
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Their most successful moment came in 1998, when, against all the odds they defeated Wigan Warriors in the Challenge Cup final, despite being huge underdogs. |
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They also lost the Premiership Final that season, losing to Wigan. |
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As a gesture of thanks, the 2008 season saw the Wigan fans have the squad number 18 dedicated to them, a practice which has since continued each season. |
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Wigan is one of the most well supported British rugby league clubs. |
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The wintry weather that has gripped the country put paid to the first leg of their Carling Cup semi-final with Rovers last Tuesday and then Saturday's league game at Wigan. |
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Areas also performing above the England average, in order of results, are Blackpool, Warrington, Wigan, Cheshire West and Chester, Bury, Cumbria, Wirral, and Stockport. |
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There are currently ten members of the Wigan RLFC Hall of Fame. |
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With the reformation of the Club as Wigan Wasps Football Club, the club returned to Folly Field from 1879 to 1886 when it moved its matches back to Prescott Street. |
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The World Pie Eating Championship is held in Wigan each year. |
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Wigan Football Club played on Folly Field, Upper Dicconson Street. |
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Wigan model Tanya, 33, married footie player Phil Bardsley in June this year at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire and went to Las Vegas for their honeymoon. |
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After Maguire left to return to Australia, his assistant Shaun Wane, the former Wigan forward was given the role of first team coach for the 2013 season. |
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The match was the first visit to Wembley for Wigan in 13 years. |
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Wigan did not have the success they expected under Ian Millward and in 2006 Wigan were bottom of the league and facing relegation from Super League. |
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In November 1999, coach Andy Goodway was sacked by Wigan chairman Maurice Lindsay after the Warriors' failure to win a trophy for the first time in 15 years. |
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Eric Hughes became coach of Wigan Warriors, replacing Graeme West in February 1997 following an early exit from the Challenge Cup in 2 consecutive years. |
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Larkin relies heavily on Orwell's own accounts of his life in Burma, especially The Road to Wigan Pier, though she misses much of his sardonicism and wit. |
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They're meant to be official exercise equipment, but this being Wigan, she has a meat and potato pie in one hand and a chip barmcake in the other. |
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In July 1996 Andy Farrell was named the Wigan club's captain. |
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Wigan also played in a special 2 match challenge series against Bath RFC in 1996, with one game played under league rules, and the other under union rules. |
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The two train at prestige wrestling gym The Snakepit, in Wigan, and practise and coach in the gym above Sowing Seeds Ministries in Stockton town centre. |
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Wigan won promotion back to the top flight the following season but Fairbairn lasted no longer than May 1981 before moving to Hull Kingston Rovers. |
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Ted Toohey became coach of Wigan in May 1974 before being sacked in January 1975, this would set the pattern of coaches lasting one or two seasons before being replaced. |
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Sunderland lacked the cutting edge needed to take their chances on goal, while Wigan could easily have taken the lead on several occasions, but for some last-gasp defending. |
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Wigan continued to have regular success in both league and cup competitions until 1974 when Wigan went 8 seasons without winning any leagues or cups. |
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The outbreak of World War II disrupted the Rugby Football League Championship but Wigan continued to play in the Lancashire War League and the Emergency War League. |
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Karle Hammond is moving to London Broncos, Brett Goldspink to Wigan, and Ian Pickavance to Huddersfield, while Damien Smith returning to Australia. |
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Darren Andrew Ashurst was remanded in custody by magistrates in Wigan, charged with killing Louise Edith Sellars, who lived in the Appley Bridge area of Wigan. |
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It proved the cue for a period of implosion from Wigan, who fell two behind shortly after the hour courtesy of Boyce's costly error, Young firing in unerringly from the spot. |
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It was followed on 9 April 1855 by the Manchester and Southport Railway with a line to Manchester via Wigan, with stations at St Luke's and Blowick. |
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Wigan scraped home 26-24 at the dW stadium last month thanks to a last-gasp Matty smith penalty and Leeds rued a contentiously disallowed try from danny McGuire. |
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