i would like to apologise to all the widnes fans for my 'scouser' jokes.... i was TOTALLY out of order.

I can only apologise and hope that you will find it in your hearts to forgive me.

A nurse at a hospital in Bristol which my missus attends every few months has a distinctive scouse accent. Wife, whose own scouse accent is much diluted after not living there for about 50 years, asked if she was from Liverpool. No, she says, I'm from Cheshire.

Guess where.

Nonesense. My two children were born while I lived in London, at the Mile End and London Hospitals respectively. They are both technically real Cockneys ( born within the sound of Bow Bells ). Needless to say, neither of them has a 'Cockney' ( which most notherners for misread as 'London' ) accent, as we did not live long in the area after their birth. They are still, however, Cockneys without accents.

Wire fans calling Widnes scouse, the nerve eh

The press called it the Merseyside Derby when you played each other recently and we all know Wires connections with Liverpool, so your all scousers ho hum.