Praise for the team and Parky Ball

[dixienormous]

"you Can't win anything with kids"..

Well, there is that Generally, you can't but they were a very special bunch of kids.

 

[caerwys_red]

Meanwhile, things are going from bad to worse at Bolton.

Victor Adeboyejo: Bolton Wanderers striker out through injury due to 'hefty sneeze'

Bolton Wanderers striker Victor Adeboyejo missed their EFL Trophy win at Barrow having injured himself during a "hefty sneeze".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Annibynnwr]

That's only fairly recent when Queen's Park was built.

I remember the start of the build!

 

[Annibynnwr]

Sorry, it was not meant as an insult at all, neither to you and your family nor the scousers.
It's just an observation that I don't remember anybody from Liverpool in Wrexham until the Queen's Park estate was built and there was a big population influx.

I lived in Hightown when the build was still going on, then moved to Y Wern. Don’t recall any Scouse influx.

 

[Wrexham Can]

I lived in Hightown when the build was still going on, then moved to Y Wern. Don’t recall any Scouse influx.

I lived in Hightown too when it was being built.
I think I'm a little younger than you so although I remember something happening there I can't remember any great details.
My uncle had a shop in Queen's Park and I'm pretty sure that's where I heard the story about Liverpudlians moving there.
If that wasn't the case (and it sounds like maybe it's not after all), then I'd be very interested what the source of the scouse twang in the Wrexham accent is.

 

[Red-C]

I lived in Hightown too when it was being built.
I think I'm a little younger than you so although I remember something happening there I can't remember any great details.
My uncle had a shop in Queen's Park and I'm pretty sure that's where I heard the story about Liverpudlians moving there.
If that wasn't the case (and it sounds like maybe it's not after all), then I'd be very interested what the source of the scouse twang in the Wrexham accent is.

Liverpool is a city built on migration and the scouse accent has traces of Irish, Lancashire, Welsh and German amongst others (look up origin of word “Scouser“).

So on one hand the reason people in North Wales sound a bit Liverpudlian is that the Liverpool accent and ours has shared roots in part.

More directly, when Liverpool was on it’s arse economically in last century then plenty of scousers moved over to Wales to find work, particularly in booming coastal resorts so there has always been a very fluid back and forth of economic migration.

I am happy to be proved wrong if anyone has any other information and obviously the growing industrial estate and newly built Queen’s Park would have been an attractive destination for incomers looking for work but not so sure if that is the reason why there is that “twang“. I’m not sure Wrexham was ever a destination for Scousers-on-mass (like say the new town expansion of Warrington that was built for that purpose).