Larry Lancashire

Chapter One: The Thundersmasher

Before Barnley FC was famous...
Before the songs, the trophies, and the slightly wonky statue of a pig outside the pub...
There was just a local lad called Larry.
Well — not a lad exactly.
A pig.
A pig with dreams bigger than his belly and a hoof that could flatten a barn.

And this, as they say, is where it all kicked off...

LARRY LANCASHIRE

Chapter One: The Thundersmasher

It all kicked off on a warm, wobbly Wednesday, a few miles outside the old Northern town of Barnley — out at Parker’s Farm, where the mud’s deeper than your wellies and the sheep give you funny looks. Somewhere between the dung heap and Farmer Parker's oddball collection of antique cardigans lived a young pig called Larry Lancashire…