King Hecky and his merry band of men enjoy War of the Roses victory

"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.

- JOHN SMITH

Preston North End manager Paul Heckingbottom

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.

At 2-0 up our visitors from across the Pennines were in fine voice convinced they had already won the game and began taunting their ex-player Daniel Jebbison with chants of "Jebbo, Jebbo, what's the score?".