Its in the boundry of the city of manchester, the county of greater manchester covers all of manchester also.

I noticed the looks on their faces as we sang that too. The post match celebrations at Saints by the players was the best i've seen all season, shows Shaun Wane has instilled a bit of passion for the club! I must say it has worked wonders for Stuart Fielden

Incorrect.

The second part is nearly correct. There is no county of Greater Manchester, it is an administrative district.

The Tories created The County of Greater Manchester in 1974, then a few years later disbanded it.

its a metroploitan county and it still stands. Every city has a boundry as its where its districts lie eg moss side, trafford, urmston etc

Its only stupid council boundaries, how can Wythenshawe be Manchester but you can walk for literally 30 seconds from the top of Deansgate and not be classed as Manchester??

Its like saying Central Park wasn't in Wigan but Newburgh the other side of Skem is.

Salford and Manchester are the same one city separated by line drawn by a man in a suit.

Old Trafford is closer than Eastlands to Manchester city centre anyway so they must be the real mancs.

wigan is , and always will be in LANCASHIRE.

they can redraw as many maps as they like, but im a wiganer, and a lancastrian, and i have never ever , and will never ever put my address as wigan, greater manchester....................its WIGAN, LANCASHIRE.

what address do other wiganers on here use?

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"you do know the criteria for being classed as a city?
its having a cathedral...which both have."


Preston is a city --- No cathedral.

Blackburn has a cathedral --- Is not a city.


Salford was created a city before Manchester. Does that make Manchester a suburb of Salford?

pah! who needs a cathedral, prestons a city with no cathedral, and blackburn has one, but it's only classed as a town

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I thought they had to have a Uni. as well.

oops, didnt see that post before mine. preston does have a uni the finest the clearing process has to offer! i personally think the decision to make us a city was solely down to the invention of the butter pie!

Should interest John Kear, he likes " Cathedral's"

firstly i wish people would stick to the thread.next ,early in the season i had the privilige to speak with MM and all through our conversation he was on about being there for your mates.i don't know how he has done it but he has lifted team spirit to an unbelieveable level similar to what we had in the glory yrs well done MM.

I am a blackburn fan, who is about to graduate from the university of central lancashire in PRESTON and lived there off and on for 3 years, support wigan (manchester neighbour) and live in warrington (invaded with mancunians) so i'm staying out of this debate.

and as a rovers fan at the game on saturday, my player game and clapped us (dont mean to rub it in)


Back on topic, i think over than the odd occastion the amount of players from wigan coming over to clap fans has always been of a good number. I do agree the reaction of the players is different now and you can see a natural smile on their faces and genuine excitment, but does that not come with success after all these are professional athletes who are very competitive, they feel as high as us when we win and i would have thought as low when we lose......but long may the winning continue