Storming North End fightback lights-up Deepdale

PNE come back from dead to beat Blades 3-2

- JOHN SMITH

"In Dickies meadow" is a Lancashire saying thought to have originated from the death of the Yorkshire born King "Richard The Third" who was the last English monarch to be killed in battle in the decisive battle of the War of the Roses in 1485.

The victory for the Lancashire backed Henry Tudor in the meadows of Bosworth lead to the rivalry between the two counties which still lingers on centuries later to this present day albeit on a slightly more friendly basis.

On Friday night, in our "Roses" clash at Deepdale, we were also in "in Dickies meadow" at one point having got into a troublesome situation by conceding two quickfire goals after we had made a fairly bright start in the games opening 10 minutes.