'My Home Town' ran throughout the whole season in our award-winning matchday programme and let PNE's players describe their home to programme-reading fans. Over the course of the next two weeks we will review the best entries here on the official website...

Matt Hill kicked things off in the Crystal Palace programme in our first home game by telling readers about a particularly unique phrase which is known to be said around Bristol, his home town and, of course, home to his former club Bristol City...

"'Gert lush' is a phrase that everyone likes to use. 'Gert' means very and 'lush' means nice! The Bristol accent is not very light so I don't think I'll try to introduce that saying around these parts."

He also told the matchday programme which rivalries are particularly fierce in that part of the world...

"Swindon is a close neighbour and if you go across the Welsh border then you've got the big one with Cardiff. There's also the cricketing competition around the area too with Somerset and Worcestershire, but I think Gloucestershire have been quite successful recently and hold the bragging rights."

Moving north approximately 400 miles or so and it was one of the new arrivals from last season's transfer window who continued the feature in the programme for the Charlton Athletic game. When asked about things you can buy in Blantyre that you can't buy in Preston, Michael Hart revealed the following...

"The square sausage? Do you get those down here. Other than that I can't think of anything that you can't buy around here."



And the former Aberdeen full-back was also full of interesting phrases that come from north of the border which may or may not be known to readers...

"It was actually really bad when I was playing up in Aberdeen for that. Things like 'Kent'fet'er'mein' would mean 'do you know what I mean'; 'dark'en; would mean 'I don't know' and 'a quiny' is a woman, so there were lots of silly little sayings like that, but none in Glasgow."

Staying with the defenders and it was centre-back Youl Mawene's turn to talk about his home town, Caen in beautiful northern France,  in the Nottingham Forest edition...

"It's most famous for its imports - the Allies landed on the beaches there on D-day. There was some pretty famous fighting all across the area for months. It's not really a massive town, so there aren't any famous celebrities from there, and after that I'd probably say it's most famous for its cheese, like Camembert or the local cider."

Keeping on the war theme, the 2005 Player of the Year pointed out one place of interest that North End fans should seek out and visit when in Normandy...

"Omaha beach, that attracts alot of families from America, Asia and Britain. It's quite an amazing place, and it's very hard to comprehend the number of people who have fallen and died while liberating the place. It's a must if you're heading to the area."



Somewhat less glamourous to some maybe is Richard Chaplow's home town of Accrington but in the Wolves programme he was happy to tell readers about famous companies from there and who lives nearby...

"Accy Nori bricks are one of the most famous companies from the town and make the best bricks. Burnley or Great Harwood are the closest towns to Accrington, there are a few footballers from around there, David Dunn lives in Great Harwood. "

FInishing off this part of the review is goalkeeper Wayne Henderson who told the matchday programme what he can't get in Preston but is in his home town of Carbra, Dublin...

"White pudding, I love my white pudding, sometimes I eat it raw and you can't get any around here which is anywhere near as good as it is at home. Obviously it is difficult to get a decent pint of Guiness in Preston as well."

And he also revealed the reason why there wasn't too much trouble in his area anymore...

"There used to be a few chavs who hung about in the park up the road, but the local GAA club is run by a few ex-IRA lads and they sorted that out quite quickly. We don't tend to have that much of a problem with that anymore, our area is well looked after shall we say."

More to come on Wednesday when we go back to Dublin with another Irishman and go slightly closer to home with defender Neal Trotman.