I am a life long Saints (St.Helens Rugby League Club) supporter and one of the high lites of the rugby league season is the Good Friday derby game between Saints and Wigan (affectionately named The Pies or Pie Eaters).
For the last two seasons Saints have been the top team, two seasons ago we won every cup on offer, but as they say 'when your at the top there is only one way to go', last season we won two cups, which is still an achievement.
This season we have not been doing to well, we have suffered a few key injuries which has not helped our cause, our defence has not been too good winning or losing by just a few points.
We lost last week by a few points to Catalan for the first time, and Wigan managed to win there game by scoring in the last few minutes, so we fully expected a thrashing this Good Friday.
As I was working Friday night I was unable to watch the match, but when I got up and put on the teletext imagine my surprise when I saw the headlines 'Ruthless St Helens crush Wigan '.
We put on our best display of the season to beat them 46 - 10, an influential player Sean Long made it back from injury for the match and worked his magic. So we are now in joint second place in the league, and we wiped the smile of the 'Pie Eaters' face again.
Yes it was a good friday for the Saints.
ATB Ken
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