Glossop North Ends Steak & Potato Pie has won the 'Best Football Pie' at this years National Pie Awards. It is a debate that rages between football fans up and down the country. Not who has the best team, as the answers to that can always be found in the league table, but instead who has the best pies. The competition over the half-time pastry snack causes endless conversations in pubs and on internet forums on a daily basis, but finally we have the answer; and it can be found way down the football pyramid, 8 levels below the giddy heights of the Premiership...in the small Derbyshire town of Glossop.
The debate has ended because a steak and potato pie, produced by local butcher J W Mettrick and Sons, and come match-day sold only at Glossop North End’s Surrey Street ground, has won the prize of Best Football Pie at the Colman’s British Pie Awards.
In winning the prize, The Hillmen’s pie beat 36 entries representing other clubs, including giants such as Everton, Liverpool, Newcastle United and Glasgow Celtic.
North End officials were delighted with the national award, which came almost 12 months to the day from their appearance at the showpiece Wembley final defeat in the FA Vase. Director Adrian Priestley said “the pies are superb, and this award for Mettricks is well deserved. Their meats are not just Glossop famous – people travel from miles away to shop in his stores, because they know the produce is quality. Wendy and Katherine, who run our pie hut, pulled out all the stops to get them to stock our matches, and all season people have commented on how good they are. Now we have the proof that they were telling the truth. They are beautifully made, beautifully cooked and visitors to our games are always in for a treat!”
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