Didsbury

The result should put Vaggers close to the top but remember ladies rugby is played on Sunday in most leagues and that means Vaggers will have to wait a little bit to find out the exact position.

But Winnington Park put in a thumping win last week and this result is a massive turnaround for Vaggers who won big away at Didsbury as well last week.

I think Winnington Park beat Southport 82-5.

So this result puts things a little bit into perspective and maybe it's too early for me to say, and maybe I shouldn't really say it, but I'm thinking of the P word here and we're only two games in.

They've beaten Didsbury away and they've absolutely thrashed the league leaders or the previous league leaders, Winnington Park.

So fair play to Vagabonds ladies today.

We'll have the score information later on on manxradio.com. And the game I was at and we were covering for Saturday Live was the Hartford Homes Bank Shield at the Murek Park.

Um, I'm adopted.

So I was adopted at Catholic Rescue Society in Didsbury, where I live now.

Yeah.

And Steve's mom and dad used to foster from the same place.

Oh.

We were fuming when we found out.

So it was the Capitol Building, ABC Studios in Didsbury, and opposite is the Paswell Pub.

The Paswell Pub is still there.

And I got onto the PGCE, but I got a letter in the post that said, and I have to apologize for any, um, regions here that are getting a blunt end of the stick, but, um, they, they said, uh, "Right, we've, we've put you on the Crewe campus." Right.

When I applied for the Didsbury campus.

Right.

I was like, "No, no, no, no, no." [both laughing] "No, no, no.

Didsbury." Um, so, and within a couple of days of that, I got a letter through the post, uh, that my dad brought to me at university and opened it up, and it was a fully funded master's degree with spending money through some European funds that- Right ...

we're now never, ever gonna get again.

Um- Well, that kind of works today.

So, uh, I d- I would pick out the results of the weekend from the, from the northwest.

Um, for me, even though it's very early doors, Didsbury have now racked up back-to-back victories against West Park and also Tarleton.

Ooh.

So, in my mind-

... are a big, hard team.

Yeah.

And last year they man shamed, uh, Didsbury.

It's a tough place to go, Eccles.

Well, it's, it's interesting that Frank compares it to the Oscars.

I, I went to do new material in a pub in Didsbury, which I see as being like my version of Woody Allen going to play the clarinet in a bar-

Yes

... on the night of the Oscars.

Yeah.

[laughs] So yeah, I was born in Withington Hospital and raised initially in Didsbury.

Mm-hmm.

And I've moved round probably every borough in the city or every town, every place.

So we get referrals from, from...

Just take a class of 30 kids in, in, let's just say...

And I talked about Didsbury before.

People think Didsbury's an affluent area, and it is, but I lived in a council estate in Didsbury, and I did my dissertation [laughs] on Didsbury Village, where we all met on a Saturday and shopped in the same shops.

But in the early days, there was just no one.

It was just like a little label run from Alan Erasmus' flat in Didsbury.

And then going from Factory to the Hacienda, which obviously a massive part in your career and like... dance music culture and one of the biggest clubs in the UK and in Europe and everything.

Sadly, a little bit before my time.