Horwich RMI

[William the White]

Nice offer Magpie, but any sane-inded Horwicher will be up Rivvy on Friday.

Correct. Touch all sides of the pike for good luck, then to the pub.

Sadly, I'll be missing this year thanks to an ill-timed christening in Ireland.

With an unfortunate drop into pedantry, I have to point out that the Pike is actually the hill and was known as the pike or pik since Norman times (or possibly earlier). Therefore it doesn't have sides. The tower, a relatively recent C18th structure, does have four sides. [/pedantry] As you were.

People walk up the hillSIDE all the time, monty. And sometimes down the other side... [Just to help you give pedantry a bad name, like...]

[mofgimmers]

Bloody 'ell fire.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Nice offer Magpie, but any sane-inded Horwicher will be up Rivvy on Friday.

Correct. Touch all sides of the pike for good luck, then to the pub.

Sadly, I'll be missing this year thanks to an ill-timed christening in Ireland.

With an unfortunate drop into pedantry, I have to point out that the Pike is actually the hill and was known as the pike or pik since Norman times (or possibly earlier). Therefore it doesn't have sides. The tower, a relatively recent C18th structure, does have four sides. [/pedantry] As you were.

People walk up the hillSIDE all the time, monty. And sometimes down the other side... [Just to help you give pedantry a bad name, like...]

Very true, and with the right tools they could probably get inside. However, Mof in his second post specifically mentioned four sides to be touched at the top which the Pike does not really have. Pedantry of course already has a bad name but I though this knowledge might help some of you win the odd bet when going to the pub afterwards. Just a public TW service really....

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Nice offer Magpie, but any sane-inded Horwicher will be up Rivvy on Friday.

Correct. Touch all sides of the pike for good luck, then to the pub.

Sadly, I'll be missing this year thanks to an ill-timed christening in Ireland.

With an unfortunate drop into pedantry, I have to point out that the Pike is actually the hill and was known as the pike or pik since Norman times (or possibly earlier). Therefore it doesn't have sides. The tower, a relatively recent C18th structure, does have four sides. [/pedantry] As you were.

People walk up the hillSIDE all the time, monty. And sometimes down the other side... [Just to help you give pedantry a bad name, like...]

Very true, and with the right tools they could probably get inside. However, Mof in his second post specifically mentioned four sides to be touched at the top which the Pike does not really have. Pedantry of course already has a bad name but I though this knowledge might help some of you win the odd bet when going to the pub afterwards. Just a public TW service really....

What about all those poor fish Monty?

[William the White]

Correct. Touch all sides of the pike for good luck, then to the pub.

Sadly, I'll be missing this year thanks to an ill-timed christening in Ireland.

With an unfortunate drop into pedantry, I have to point out that the Pike is actually the hill and was known as the pike or pik since Norman times (or possibly earlier). Therefore it doesn't have sides. The tower, a relatively recent C18th structure, does have four sides. [/pedantry] As you were.

People walk up the hillSIDE all the time, monty. And sometimes down the other side... [Just to help you give pedantry a bad name, like...]

Very true, and with the right tools they could probably get inside. However, Mof in his second post specifically mentioned four sides to be touched at the top which the Pike does not really have. Pedantry of course already has a bad name but I though this knowledge might help some of you win the odd bet when going to the pub afterwards. Just a public TW service really....

How many sides do you reckon it has then, monty? You go up one, come down the other, obviously... But it looks to me like there are definitely two alternatives between them...

What about all those poor fish Monty?

[youngmc]

Firt of all i did the pike on Friday then down to the jolly crofters for Fish,chips and mushy pea's and a few pints of Bank Top Flat cap

The pike its self is 1140 feet above sea level and you can see Blackpool Tower on a clear day more than 25 miles away ( as the crow flies). The pike was built around 1588 and used as a beacon to warn people of the inpending invasion of the Spanish Armada.

Now onto RMI, i used to go to school with a lad who's Dad was on the board of Directors at the club, we used to go to most games, as my mum said i was not old enough to watch the white's alone at 11-12 years of age, so for about half a seasons they kept playing the same tunes over and over again on the tanoy system we asked Andy 'why 'Tainted love' by Marc Almond was the RMI Theme tune' and replies ' i brought the tape of the charts in 18 months ago and they just rewind it every game and use it over and over' We decided then to compile our own tape with Its tricky RUN DMC, The show by DOUGIE FRESH amongst others, so for the rest of that season RMI ran out to our tunes.

Happy days indead, can anyone remember that final we played in against a southern team? they kept flashing wads of £20's and shouting 'loads of money' then watched them try and get on there mini coach after the match and get a proper kicking off the infamous Horwich Casuals. Also remeber Faz Page had a blinding game that day, and think he went onto be a Wanderers Physio.