Essential information for fans travelling to Chesterfield - Robins Trust

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We've published our information for those travelling up to Derbyshire early on Saturday morning (or late on Friday)...

https://www.robinstrust.org/posts/match ... mber-2024/

The locals are probably as annoyed about people banging on about their claim to fame being a poorly-constructed church spire as we are about all national media mentions of CTFC including references to horse-racing, but I've enjoyed Wikipedia's (all equally plausible) suggestions of how the spire came to be crooked:

"There are local folk legends as to why the spire is twisted, mostly involving the Devil. In one, a Bolsover blacksmith mis-shod a hoof of the devil, who leapt over the spire in pain and angrily kicked it out of shape. Another states that the devil was resting on the spire when the smell of incense wafting up from inside the church made the devil sneeze, so violently that it caused the spire to warp. A similar story has the devil flying from Nottingham to Sheffield and stopping for rest atop the church, its tail wrapped around the spire, but the ringing of the church bells startled the devil and on leaping away its lashing tail twisted the spire. A simpler version has the devil merely sitting spitefully atop the church weather vane, its bulk causing the twisted spire and inadvertently creating a new tourist attraction. Another myth suggests that the spire, so captivated by the beauty of a bride, leant down for a closer view but became locked in a twisted position, while the more mocking version has the church being so surprised to see a virgin being married, whether groom or bride, that its spire turned to look at the betrothed, becoming stuck – but that should another virgin ever marry in the church, the spire will return to true again."

That's the sort of nonsense people come up with if they don't have a hill and some cheese to roll down it...

Safe travels.

Jaimie
Robins Trust
https://www.robinstrust.org/join/