Pride of East Lancashire

[houseboy]

Just thinking at the weekend about how well East Lancashire football is doing just now. We really should be proud of our area from a footballing perspective.
Accrington Stanley are sitting proudly on top of league two, 3 points clear with 2 games in hand and virtually uncatchable by anyone out of the top 3. Promotion seems a given and the championship looks pretty nailed on as well.
Rovers (putting rivalry to one side for a moment) are sitting on top of league one and again looking a fair bet for auto promotion and increasingly in a two horse race for the championship with Wigan.
And then there is the Clarets. We are pretty much nailed on champions of the 'alternative PL' or 'the best of the rest league' (leaving out the big 6).
It really is a time to celebrate East Lancashire's footballing heritage because (putting aside those local rivalries) we are all football fans from a footballing backwater that has over-achieved many times over the years. Long may it continue.

[ClaretTony]

I can't say I have any desire at all to celebrate some of that

[randomclaret2]

Me neither...

[Culmclaret]

Can’t say I am that proud of a club that has thrown a shed load of money it doesn’t really have at clambering out of the third tier. Fair play to Accy though

[NottsClaret]

99.999% about Burnley. 0.001% Accy. You'd need that sub-atomic particle machine in Switzerland to discover just how little I care for anyone else in East Lancs winning some games.

[houseboy]

I can understand some of the problem with 'some of that' but I did say 'putting rivalry apart' for a second and looking at the bigger picture as football fans. I can also understand someone in Nottinghamshire not being too worried about East Lancashire.

[bfcjg]

You mention East Lancs, so why include an Indian team ?

[Pstotto]

I initially pressed like to the OP and then un-liked it, when sense intervened.

[1963Claret]

No time for Accy either tbh. A lot of their fans are anti-Burnley and conveniently forget the fund raising friendlies we played for them when they were on their uppers.