The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Wigan, Greater Manchester*

Wigan, Greater Manchester Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Jimmy's, stjudes players bar
• Springfield Park
• the row opposite wigan north western station. look up is all i can say. B-E-A-utiful!
• HAIGH HALL
• wigan casino
• Brookhouse
• none at all there only claim to faim is the not so famous peir what a dump
• wigan is shit
• Parmasan and pepper
• that pest control center in Pemberton
• Haigh Hall
• Grammer School
• The Church in the middle of the town centre. THat makes some really nice photographs. So that has to be my favourite building in Wigan. I have to admit though i do like the JJB Stadium!
• The toilets on Wigan Lane. They were ideally placed for a slash on the way home from the town centre or Central Park (when it was there). Unfortunately they have now been closed as they were used for cottageing. Move the problem - not the bogs!
• JJB Stadium
• coops
• Gas Showroom for catching Mecca coach to Blackpool. Only in Wigan would people say to catch the coach at the gas showroom when it doesn't even exist anymore
• The Foresters Arms, Shevington Moor, Standish.
• Church in the centre
• TRENCHERFIELD MILL- DO SOMETHIN WITH IT!
• Springfield Park/JJB Stadium The New Tescos - A great improvement on the shithole that once stood there.
• College actually, it's got this big wheel ya can climb when ur drunk!
• 2 earle street(the outhouse)
• DDS (dole) office
• The Tudor House, The John Bull,the whole of Coopers Row, and I love The mediaeval atmosphere of The Wiend.
• my house, it keeps me warm and has a studio in it
• Has to be Haigh Hall
• Haigh Hall. Shame the council have ruined it.
• without a doubt was Central Park, but now probably the ruins of springfield park ha ha ha have some of that you latics losers yeah. still standing, well probably the baths, ahh memories.
• The Magistrates Court - Ripe for spray painting 'Metallica - And Justice For All' on the side of. Take at look at it, you'll understand me at once. Unfortunately it's next to the nick, so not much opportunity so far!
• Queens Hall building on Market Street
• Mcdonalds
• Alans
• The chinese chippy across the road from Andy's, I think it's called the Billinge Supperbar. Well the one near the foresters anyway!
• Maximes
• the old market hall,sadly no longer with us
• Wayward Studios
• St Wilfrid's Church, Standish.
• Pooles pie shop
• The big white house on Ince common opposite the park, a wonderful old cottage. Congratulations to the owner. Hurrah.
• The Zoo shopping complex on King Street, is really good for teenagers,young adults and ravers.
• The Phoenix Stand, Springfield
• Springfield Park. The rugby stadium.

Demolish It Now Building

• The sad twat at the dss office.
• JJB Stadium
• Liquid nightclub. Enough said.
• WIGAN INTERNATIONAL POOL WITH THE CENTRE MANAGER UNDER THE LOT
• Robin Park... who wants to part with money in prefabricated tin huts
• council tax office whelley
• The Pretentious student shit hole that is the Tudor House.
• the swiming baths or at least make them look better
• The abandoned ccross from cafe nirvana and the swimming baths that was half knocked down a few years ago and just looks shit now. also i heard that sum1 got busted makind kiddie porn in there.
• the peir who the would go there for a night out
• Pemps......well not really just the sweet lady who owns it, can I just give three cheers to the Gypsy gent who tried to kill her?
• Jumping Jacks preferably when its full. Bugger it, just carpet bomb King Street.
• 1)Skem New Town. Demolish the lot. Once just a village near Wigan but now a sprawling mess of concrete houses and soulless estates. Pity the poor people of Upholland & Roby Mill, who are expected to put SKEM in their address. 2)Liquid nightclub, King St. What a hole, cram 'em in, overcharge 'em then kick 'em out. Nice.
• FLATTEN LIQUID NIGHTCLUB THERE ALL SNOBS IN THERE
• LEIGH TOWN HALL!!!
• mc donalds we have about 6 in wigan and its shit
• The Victoria
• All the Robin Park sports complex.Then make Whelan account for the money he's squandered from Taxpayers as far as Salford who pay into Wigan even though they have no desire to ever go there.
• New Market hall Shopping Mall
• I live in Platt-bridge and i know many people have many bad things to say but not all of platt bridge is bad there are a few good people that live here.Its about time that they knock down the old 'Tomsons' and 'carpet place' and the old parish centre which most of us have to look at everyday. The estates have been cleaned up and looking clean so platt bridge is looking up.
• maximes (yay!)
• Wigan Baths
• The old Town hall in Wigan town centre, that is just a disgrace. I took a photo of it to show my mate in Australia n she sed it was a disgusting building to have and would make the town look a complete shambles!!
• Even though I'm a wigan born lad I hate to admit to it if I don't need to. I'd like to see most of the place flattened to be honest.
• The already half-demolished building opposite the jobcentre. The bits they left up are crap, and the rest is a dump. Also the multi storey car park next to aforementioned eyesore. Brocol House - ugly as they come.
• Town Hall wi all councillors & council staff in it
• All the so-called modern politicaly correct buildings and street layouts. What was wrong with the old Market Hall and Square, to name a couple, where so much traditional activity took place. Has nobody any nostalgia for things 'the way they were'?
• All the crappy council houses an slums like most of Platt Waz
• civic centre
• Old Police Station and Town Hall, what an eyesore
• Anything south of Chorley. Anything north of Haydock. Anything east of St. Helens. Anything west of Bolton.
• Tudor House
• scholes precinct
• Central Park - HA HA HA HA
• The Town Hall, it sucks
• deanery high school male toilets
• Swimming baths.
• Wigan
• Asda, Wigan.
• Asda's. The Galleries. Loved the old Market Hall, loathe the new one. It has all the flavour of an overground cemetary, and visiting it is like a preparation for death!
• The cooling towers; oh it's already happened and i work in the building they built on the rubble!
• MARKET HALL.......It's only my personal opinion, mind, and plenty might disagree (as it's a free world, they are entitled to express their opinions too) butIts the ugliest, flithiest and most badly managed heap of crap in town. I feel sorry for some of the poor beggars who have to try to eek a living in it. If you were shopping in there over Christmas, did you freeze your ass off like I did? Straight for Debenhams where it was lovely and warm...mmmmm!
• Civic centre, police station, JJB stadium (Central/Springfield park forever!).... Car park near Wigan baths.... hmmm I could go on but could be up for slander!
• well someone already took care of that when the knocked over springfield park (18 years of wishing paid off).
• Deanery High School, Oz Night club Princes night club The Ben Johnson Old Mary's (sorry Frenz)
• The Job Centre on Standishgate. Home to a red-haired fortyish shrew, who made my life a misery for years (You know who you are!!) I now work for the RAF and would dearly like to drop a Paveway III laser-guided bomb on the s**thole!
• wigan college and BHS
• All the houses on Woodhouse Drive
• The family centre on Woodcock Drive Platt Bridge, the service they provide is wonderful and the staff are excellent, but the building they are in are an eyesore. It has garages underneath and the kids spent hours kicking balls at the mental doors...it makes a terrible noise and drives residents potty. There was a comment about Platt Bridge saying it was a great place to find used needles....what a load of twallop...even the poshist areas have drug abusers. Platt Bridge is changing fast and there are a lot of honest decent people in it. I love the area and would live no-where else....All areas have their problems and it is unfair to degrade honest people for where they live.
• PRINCES and SHAPIROS!!!!!!!!
• 164 main street, before andy kills himself doing more wrestling move off the windows
• The Zoo--tried to be trendy, selling fake hemp and that shit--closed down, now an eyesore
• The Church above the infants school near Bulldog Tools in ince.. the spire is leaning towards the school and it will no doubt fall on the school if anything isnt done soon.....
• Wigan & Leigh College
• The whole of king street
• Wigan and Leigh College
• Central Park (make way for TESCO) ha ha ha
• that stadium they building
• princes and most of king street
• The Deanery High School
• new court house
• All food shops that don't sell pies need to be knocked down.
• Central Park, but it looks like Tescos are doing it for us. Ha Ha! At least there'll be some parking spaces
• Central Park. The college (I go there).

The Best Things

• maximes on a sat nite bangin tunes and mcs get in there!!!
• Going out of the shit hole
• wigan rl and st judes arlfc
• It's only 7 miles to either St Helens or Bolton
• EVERYBODY WANTS A DRINK. WHATEVER AGE THEY WANT A DRINK. THIS IS GREAT BECAUSE WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO GROW UP INTO AN AGE OF DRINK AND DRUGS.
• You'll find idiots and other hopful trendsetters in every town not just wigan. I've lived here for 28 years + 4 years in london with the most stunnin nightlife you could wish for but, i have to admit passing the big old family picture of 'wigan pier' on a rare visit home was most stunnin.
• The very fact that its decline has started a few years later than other towns in the area... there are slightly less "everything a pound" shops than St Helens
• fat tony and his gang
• wigan wot can i say the best place. get drunk get moved by pigs n jst go sum wer else the bst place in the world n the bst ppl in world. bst place go n get bladdered wigan park!!!!!!!!
• sport,people,Audiorush
• all fit lads!
• bus station out of wigan it takes u to bigger and better places
• the girls
• Knowing loads of people, thanks to the fairly small town size. This can also be a bad thing though...
• To be honest wigan is shit. I hate all the kids who go on about "crews" and how good wigan is because its not. The old people all complain about fighting in the war and working down the mines and the young people all think they are solid cos they are slags and dress up in scally gear and go out and buy their 99p bottle of cider. They are all BASTARDS I could name names but im not gonna cough SF cough
• the nightlife, the really fit lads and ME
• Pies, Piss and Pussy
• wigan rugby league pooles pies uncle joes mint balls
• pure stunnin lads!!!!!
• pies Athletico Wigan FC
• The Clubs n pubs just has to be the best thing in this town! THey are just some of the best clubs around lancashire n i always meet my mates there! N some of the best nights out has to b round wigan!
• It's close to manchester
• one of the best things in wigan is the music collective. it organisesgigs all the time for bands at the collective venue (the tavern) and 2 a year organises two festivals 'haigh hall' and 'mesnes park'. They guarantee good music which everyone is into (apart from cheesey dance crap but hey that isn't even music anyway got to a club or something, this music in festivals feature talent) whether reggae or punk you are sure to find something you like.
• Wigan's lovely people
• Pies, Ale
• Whilst not wishing to denigrate the performance of Billy Boston or Shuan Edwards (a master tactitioner) how about Brian Norgren as a winger and surely the greatest full-back of all times, Jim Sullivan
• the road to St.helens-and give our half of billinge back u thieving pi-eating bastards-and were not fucking scousers,not our fault all scousers a moving here
• the best thing in life is having the pride to say "i come from wigan" becouse wigan is soooooo much better than the north! you wigeners would die if you came up here! its just not healthy! no polution to shops! just sheep!
• Wigan Warriors the most succesful League team in the sports history an pretty much everythin else in Wigan
• The best things in Wigan are the M6, the M58 and the East Lancs A580. All get you out of Wigan. Nobody in Wigan ever seems to venture out to see the world outside. They are very proud of the town but where are they comparing it with?
• Wigan was civilized 30 years ago.
• young ladies with breasts popping out and short skirts
• Village Shop (Pemeberton) steak pies, get in early though they only have 50 pie tins. Greenhalgh's steak pies, pasties, meat pies, meat 'n'prata pies in fact any pie. England's butchers for bar'b'que grub especially sandwich steak. Wigan's answer to the Breville Grille, the George Formby Lean Machine
• The M6 out of the town, or the A580 if you must. The Forresters Arms in Shevington Moor. The only decent pub. (Does that get me a free pint?)
• EVERYTHIN HEY I'M PROUD TO BE A WIGANER
• My Up Holland boy who is the best looking lad anyone has ever laid eyes on, he knows who he is! The Lancs accent is the sexiest, for an Aussie girl anyway!
• Wigan Athletic,Northern Soul and Sir Andrew Liddell, When Saints stuff Wiggin Rugbee, funny as f**k.
• I live there :)
• Wigan Ath. Wigan Ath. Wigan Ath. I know we're doing crap, but some Wiganers have heard of the word 'LOYALTY'.
• nothin.. wigan suxx cock
• The best things in Wigan would have to be that they have the best looking blokes in Britain!! And they're accents are definately the sexiest!!!!!
• The scousers who come to make wigan a friendlier and less ignorant place. at least scousers are not in bred like wiganers, And in response to a message already on the board Wigan is not the centre of the earth you need to get out more, go to Liverpool and see what you have been missing...in fact go anywhere and you'll see it!!
• Eat The Peach records is an indie label based in Wigan and also the name of the superb but now defunct band lead by the talanted Dave Wilson (he of mandolin and stratocaster, keyboards and soaring harmonies). The lads are still producing records for "hole-fruit " productions and are roumoured to be working with Neil Finn of "crwoded House" fame. Keep and ear out for them. Also just produced an new David Grey Track off the forthcoming album.
• One day I'll escape.
• Full of Semi Scouse-Wiganers, la.
• Streets paved in pastry and where the gravy flows.
• On the bus out!
• The pubs. You can't beat a Lancashire pub! And Wiganners are so friendly (when they're not tanked up on ale, and trying to kick your head in!)And the women are lovely, they know how to make a man feel like a man!
• Best thing about Wigan is the warmth of the people.
• Freindly people, Pies, Winstanley, Rugby, Pubs and our sense of humour.
• The greatest sporting team on earth Wigan RL. Old Wiganers. Being the envy of the rest of the world. Plenty of company in the dole queue (who said that degree was a waste of time).
• Everyone is so friendly, The rugby team and the sports venue at Robin Park is really nice!
• The nightlife. More sexy women than ANYWHERE else in the world, except Florida. I have been to 48 countries and I can vouch for that.
• Wigan has the friendliest people in the whole world. The best nights out and the best looking lads in the North
• Wigan lads!! aged about 14-16 cuz they r all so sweet even though they are obsessed with the WWF
• There is only one fit lad in wigan and only I know who that is!!
• Alans, Maximes and skaters.
• The collection of people that go to the shell garage dressed up in silly clothes
• The Rockport & Trackie crowd that shit theirselves, even when they have a numbers advantage
• Pooles have shut down???
• Old Marys in Ashton....Glam it up girls.
• THE BUS ROUTE FROM LEIGH. WIGAN INFIRMARY (THE BEST DOCRORS IN ....WIGAN LANE???)
• WIGAN ATHLETIC
• women are all beautifull in Wigan
• im trying hard to think........ ok there are some nice looking lads (the minority who dont wear addidas popper trackie bottoms and have about 5 earings in their ears)
• Uncle Joe's Mint Balls, made in Wigan since 1898. Still take some licking.
• I MISS WIGAN IT WILL ALWAYS BE HOME THE CHIPIES THE PEOPLE SAYING LUV THE OUR NORMAN WHEN TALKIN FAMILY
• cool shops
• PIES - you cant go wrong for pies in Wigan. Everywhere you go all you see is people stuffing pies down their throats.
• Having a 24hr Asda. There's nothing better than having a drunken night out and falling into Asda, harrassing the staff and doing your shopping and 3am.
• The pies are great, but what about the 'chips, mushy peas and gray' what was it called a 'mixture' I think. This page is great only found it today, but will be visiting more often in future.
• The Facts of Life: Who needs the birds and bees talk from their mums and dads? When I was a little lad, all you had to do was get changed in the cubicles at Wigan Baths, look at the scrawled cartoons of copulating bodies, and the answer to life was there for all to see .
• pies,music , beer
• The fit women
• A lack of Nerds and (very) friendly birds: The park at the back of the church! Come on lads, we've all done it!
• pubs n people (top combination)
• The blend of "old world" Wigan with the modern aspects and needs of todays residents and visitors. Every time I come back to Wigan from the States I have a compulsion I dont even try to resist..... a visit to "The Hat Shop" in the arcade. You will travel far and wide to find people as friendly and helpful as Wiganers, unless of course you go down the road to Ashton-in-Makerfield. Lake Villa, Illinois, U.S.A. Oh, Hi Mum!
• Pooles Pies have to be among the best things yo come out of Wigan. My wife's from Pemberton and whenever we go back (we've been to a funeral there today) we buy a load of Pooles Pies to freeze and a Lancashire peeler (that's the thing to peel potatoes with not a sort of dog which is of course, the Lancashire heeler!). Pooles Pies ought to have a Web Site where you can send an order ands have them sent by courier.
• pies pies birds pies and birds.
• Wigan Athletic Football Club
• Haigh hall is really cool and the plantatons are really good for walks.The JJB warehouse is the best sports shop ever as it has loads of choice.
• Taking the piss out of folk from Leigh
• The village of Billinge is the most beautiful area of Wigan. That's the best thing.
• Wigan Athletic F.C... What a season, at last, we have finally taken over as the talking point of the town. Wigan like winners, and the rugby team aint doing that no more... new stadium for the town, 25,000 all seater luxury. Come on the Premiership.
• New JJB stadium being built.
• Pies and tottie.
• I'd just like to say that after spending the last 12 months at University in London, I have realised just how brilliant Wigan is!!! The best thing about Wigan, is the people who live there. You can't beat Northern Hospitality, as I have realised from some of the people I have met in the South. (No offence, to southerners please). People of Wigan will go out of your way to say "Hi" and make you welcome, you should pay a visit sometime... especially on a Friday night, when the town is lifting with energy!!!! Yours TONY!!! P.S. Hi to all my family and friends!!!
• Wigan's best points are the amount of pubs within a small area which are always busy, it's historical links, Wigan pier, George Orwell and of course Wigan Rugby. Football team not up to much, Shopping centre reasonable.
• Slappies (plural of A Slappy i.e. a pie sandwich). Basically if you can put any form of food between two pieces of bread you can guarantee they have been doing it in Wigan for years.
• I'd say Greenalgh's made the best pies in Wigan (meat)
• Wigan excels in its world reknowned pies, be it meat, meat and potato, steak, cheese, but the Meat and Potato is the norm for the Pie-Eater (local term for a Wiganer). Main manufacturers of said pies are Galloways, a family owned company whom have been voted best pie makers by Wigan people for the second year running.
• The RL team are again showing the rest of the best how to play and are looking forward to going to the twin towers of Wembley at the beginning of May for the Challenge Cup final for the umpteenth time running (eighth I think).

The Worst Things

• dirty jelous wigan ppl hu dnt like us scousers! dnt be dissin skem nither
• The pie eaters. No respect for anyone.
• wigan athletic and orrell rugby union
• The accent Pies
• Chavs!!!!!!!
• TOO MANY PUBS,TOO MANY CLUBS, TOO MANY NUTTERS, TOO MANY DRUGGIES, NOT ENOUGH TAXI'S, NOT ENOUGH BOBBIES FREE FOR ALL FIGHTS EVERYDAY OF THEWEEK
• Obviously the people who think of wiganers as inbred must have been knocked back to many times by one of us. The great thing to watch is an out of towner trying to copy our own unique lingo and end up making total planks of themselves. (To the scousers insulting wigan) Comedians mimmick scousers for a reason, but you never see one mimmick a wiganer without falling flat on their face. We all have our knobheads and slappers in each town so before insulting ours look around your own.
• KNOB HEAD WIGANNERS CALLING SKEMMERS PLASTIC SCOUSERS WHAT ARE THEY ON ABOUT THERE PLASTIC MANCS AND THATS WELL WORSE
• Chavs, pigeons, people who blow smoke at you, drizzle, litter, decay, the smell of piss anywhere near King Street, that smokey grey hue that envelops the town centre, Robin Park,UGC Cinema, the fact that there is nowhere for people who dont look 18 or over to spend an evening without getting wet or attacked by chavs
• SCALLIES EVERYWHERE!!!!!
• the charvas
• wigan rugby glory supporters!
• King Street - the single worst place in the Universe. If you were to give England an enema you would shove the tube in Jumping Jacks.
• The large number of parochial inbreds who think it's 'cool' to speak in an ancient, almost indecipherable language. Nothing wrong with a Lancashire accent, but some of these idiots take it too far & use 17th century phrases. Also, the high proportion of Wiganers who think the universe stops at Hindley or Orrell. There's a big world out there !!!
• OUR REPUTATION! Mostly due to comments by people who think that all we're about is pies and rugby. People call us ignorant and while this may be true for some people its not true for everyone. Maybe its the people who criticise this lovely town who are ignorant and cant see us for the friendly people we are! I moved away to uni but theres something special about Wigan that draws you back. Lets improve our reputation so we dont get such stick when we tell people where we're from!!!
• Anything that involves those morons that own Mabs Cross, JRs, Turnkey
• Scallies Old people the town in general
• bitchy girls who think there IT.
• Those bloody whoppers, the rockport n fake burberry wearin losers, that as sum one has alredi pointed out like to shout mosher or sweeeeeeedi or goth, its not reali an insultant u fucking morons!
• Pussy with attitude and sunday morning litter round town. Having a kebab for brekkie then going to work at Reality driving a crane
• Lazy driver who can't be bothered to use there indicators when turning left at ROUNDABOUTS (not islands. This seems to be a local trait to the people of Wigan and the situation is only worsened by Wigan Metro's POINTLESS traffic calming measures in Winstanley as when approachinf these ROUNDABOUTS and having to give way to the right, you can't see a thing because the ROUNDABOUTS are set back about 10 feet from the line of the road. When you pull out, youre committed and someone is heading straight for the side of your car and they think your a bad sriver. NICE ON WIGAN METRO!!!
• the worst thing about wigan is they knocked the old rlfc down to build a tescos
• you make wigan seem like a really scary place to anyone over 21! maybe your site's not for me but I was born there and would like to visit but your site puts me off!
• full of wools
• maximes
• TOWNIES!! Stripie jumpers and trackies!!
• Theres not much i do like about Wigan, all i like is the Clubs mainly!
• most of the people who live here can just about string a sentence together. Also they all think that they're "salt of the earth" which as a friend once pointed out to me means that you're scum basically because it don't get much lower.
• People who think because punks dress differently to them that they deserve a beating. and it wouldn't be as bad if it was one at a time but unfortunately they're cowardly aswell and it usually ends up 7 to 1 or some silly odd like that.
• The fact that most of the population blindly vote Labour without giving a thought as to why they do it, just because their parents did. I think there are still people around that don't realise the mines have now gone. As a result, our local council doesn't give a fig for the people, coz the councillors will get voted back each year without a problem, except for the bossy councillor in Swinley that got kicked out last May. Tee-Hee.
• St Helens, JJB Stadium [not a patch ont' Reebock up road]
• Wigan Rugby
• living in yorkshire when you could be gettin athsma in wigan! these sheep do my head in and all the cow muck and no corner shops, no decent pubs! no shitty school to complain about! its all grass! and fields! aggggggh someone help me im suffogating to much fresh air!
• St Helens is nearby- AND they nicked haydock an billinge from wigan
• The worst thing about Wigan is the narrow-mindedness of the people. They are naturally suspicious of everyone not born and bred in the town (shown by the hostility to non-whites and asylum seekers). Wigan is a white ghetto of narrow-minded bigots, who are proud to be 'down-trodden working class northern folk' but play on this reputation as a feeble excuse for their blinkered opinions, lack of care or knowledge for the 'outside world' and bone-headed, lazy attitudes. They need to open their eyes and catch up with the rest of the country. The truth hurts!
• the fat blokes trying to pull the young ladies with the breasts popping out
• Asda especially kids with minature bloddy shopping trolley's
• Wigan is a complete dump. The only way you could improve it is to take the narrow minded, interbred bone-heads out of the town & show them the world outside. Why are they so proud of the town when they haven't ventured further than Ashton-in-Makerfield? They are all fat, eat pies, shave their heads and are proud of their culture of being down-trodden thickos. The men are just as bad. The biggest white ghetto in the world. Find the M6. Find a life outside...
• Doris Lindsay,Wiggin Rugby,Kym Marsh(from AShton by the way,this is not Wigan the fat arsed bugry league slapper) people saying Wigan is a rugby town, is it f**k, the vast majority of Wiggin Bugrys fans are from outlying districts of neighbouring towns. such as Coppull(Preston), Daisy Hill(Bolton) and Ashton(nowhere)
• I can't be there all the time...
• Small-minded thugby supporters, the inbreds who fail to realise the complete insignificance of Bugry League. Also, Skelmersdale - what a set of plastic scouse tw@*s. How dare any scouser/plastic scouser/2nd generation scouser/genetically-modified scouser have the cheek to call Wiganers inbred!
• The worst thing in Wigan as someone mentioned before, is that the girls look like absolute fucking dickheads with those tracksuit bottoms and their socks tucked in the bolldy things!!! Also I wish that they would wear only one bloody hair bobble in their hair at once and not fifty! You look daft and why do all the girls have to spit in the middle of the street!! Your all mingers and im actually from Wigan myself ands not blowing my own trumpe, but at least I know how to dress you twats!!!!
• Don't know why you think that all scousers visit wigan for a night out,its shite most with money and common sense would get as far away as poss and go somewhere decent for a night out i.e. Liverpool. and as for the person who's lived there for 20 of their 21 yrs, GET A LIFE!! you ignorant c**t. At least scousers are friendly wiganers are so ignorant.
• I've lived in Wigan for 20 of my 21 years and it's been hard! No where else is quite like this place I'm sure. The people of Wigan don't seem to understand that it aint the centre of the universe and need to admit that wigan Athletic are totally RUBBISH! A team that doesnt win needs to stop playing! King street has a few pubs but not a lot and they all offer the same thing so you've seen one you've seen them all. Most people are inbred you only need to read Orwell's book to see that nothing has ever changed in Wigan. It's about time people started to see something of the world and then they would appreciate that there's more to life than pies and trackies. Also a word to the scousers - why do you all keep moving here? That goes for the even worse skem lot, you make any town look bad. If you want to see the north just go to manchester it's the only place worth a visit. There's a growing indie kid movement in Wigan as well I suspect!
• The people and the place.
• MANCS - For the uneducated that means people who originate in the hole known as Manchester.
• The fact that most of the 'scousers' are actually skemmers from nearby Skelmersdale and its a disgrace that skemmers are forced to come to Wigan for a night out/cinema/decent shops etc. due to the fact that there's f*** all in Skem!
• The inability of WRLFC supporters to actually admit that they aren't the biggest and best club anymore.
• AS IF anyone form Liverpool would be seen dead or alive on a night out in Wigan. Why the hell would anybody want to visit that smelly dump?
• I wouldn't go so far as to say that Wiganers are all inbred, myopic, and xenophobic, but I'd say it's pretty much 90% It's not a bad old place - bit of character, bit of history, some decent places to go, and a good bit of minky here and there.. but in my experience, the terms 'friendly Wiganer' and 'intelligent Wiganer' are certainly oxymoronic... I moved up there as a kid and was never made to feel welcome. There were always too many angry wasps buzzing about with their deep-seated Napolean complexes hemmed to their flatcaps. It was okay for a while cos most of them could take out their frustrations on the rugby pitch and with frustrated fumblings in Mesnes park on a Saturday night, but then they all started drinking and smoking, growing beer kegs round their bellies and procreating with some god-awful horror that made Bella Emburg look like an anorexic (or their sisters), till they get to the point where they're forty on their second heart-bypass with six kids and a dead-end job, and the process of gene-pool pollution begins over... I could go on but I think I've made my point.
• The Galleries, eurch! And all the young lads with a bellyful of ale, spoiling for a fight. And the eleven o'clock last orders. Useless!
• TOWNIES! scum sucking moluscs who do nothing but wear tracksuits and cause trouble
• Lack of decent jobs that pay a proper wage. I can't stand it when experience counts for nothing. I can stand it even less when employers expect a 17 year old to have a 10 year checkable work record, five years hands-on experience and a roll of certificates long enough to decorate the town hall walls with (and willing to pay em less than a fiver a week. Meantime this 40 something year old dangles over the employment scrapheap.
• None really. I don't like people calling my town. It is a great place.
• Being associated with Latics. Being associated with St Helens (Billinge).
• Too many p*ssed-up knobheads in most of the clubs, frustrated with their inability to pull and determined to prevent anyone else from doing what they can't!
• No where decent to get breakfast Asda Cafe being the best it offers
• The girls are f****** slappers who only wear trackies,strange strange people!!
• Most of the gals are slappers and the lads are two timing wankers
• The guys with the obsessive sock over pants and Rockports thingy effort(know what i mean?)And people who go "SWEATYYYYY!!!!" and point at you!and the thing is they actually dress that way at a weekend(-Ben Mousdale)Dirty rotten theaving SMACK-HEADS!
• The townies who throw 2p coins at my and my mates
• The Rockport and Trackies Crowd
• Wigan people are not friendly, in fact they are quite xenophobic about anybody not born in the town.
• St Helens for nabbing half of Billinge. Its our turf and we want it back!!!
• THE TURNKEY NO OVER 18'S ALLOWED ON THE PREMESIS PLEASE.
• there's nowhere to watch bands or comediens,places like burnley mechanics,bolton albert hall,preston guild,that sort of thing.i'm not asking for a nynex or a wembly arena just somewhere to watch good bands.
• The girls, they all have bleached blonde badley permed hair and all wear 3 stripe track suits and most of them are wider than the channel tunnel (if u know what i mean)
• I DONT LIVE THERE THAT IS WHY I LOVE TO VISIT YOU
• no music scene to speak of- but its changing!! Look out for some cool bands!
• No pie shops open after 5.30pm
• Having people assume that you're a pie eating rugby fan just because you're from Wigan. I confess to the pie thing but not all Wiganers are rugby fans. AND the way people always laugh and take the mick out of your accent because it's a mix of Manchester, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Scouse because it borders every county - CENTRE OF THE WORLD IS WHAT WIGAN IS!!!!!!
• princes
• The cocky lads who think they're hard
• What worse aspects?
• scousers
• All the players bought by John Deehan at WAFC
• The lack of cool shops like Miss Selfridges.
• I'm from St. Helens and I live in Billinge. That's the worst thing.
• Lack of clubs.
• Big headed Rugby League fans.
• Worst thing is the closing down of the old Market Hall, the new complex is great, but it dousen't have the charm of the old Market Hall.
• Wigan is well known for having sad-ass rugby league fans, who jump on the bandwaggon every May to go to Wembley - well done, you lot, for being so open-minded! Not this year though eh?!
• People come a lot frm L'pool for a nite in Wigan.
• Lack of major clubs, although there are several clubs within a small area, they are mostly all small and not exactly refined. Needs a major large club at not too dear prices to improve the town.
• Not having a 4am license law like Manchester has. The lack of a 'major' dance club.

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