With relegation, promotion, and plenty of play-off campaigns to boot, the past few years have certainly been emotional for fans of Preston North End.

Right now, the club are looking set to mount another push for the Championship top-six this season.

Inevitably, those supporters of the Lilywhites will be desperate for that play-off push to materialise, and as with any club, there are plenty of famous faces who come under that particular category.

Here, we take a look at five celebrities you may or may not follow Preston, with something of a sporting theme.

He took on the World during a career that saw him win 57 caps for England's Rugby Union side, but Steve Borthwick still remembers where it all began for him in a sporting sense.

Now England's forwards coach, Borthwick first started playing the game at youth level for Preston Grasshoppers, and is also a supporter of the city's football team.

Another to have become known across the World for representing England in his respective sport, Flintoff is another to have stayed loyal to his hometown club when it comes to football.

The Preston-born cricketer - who spent his entire club career with Lancashire - turned TV personality is another who supports the Lilywhites, and even took to Twitter in an attempt to convince Joe Hart to move to Deepdale from Burnley last year.

There are very few people who get to play for their boyhood football club, but Mark Lawrenson did just that.

The North End fan made 73 league appearances for the club at a start of a playing career that would be laden with honours from his time at Liverpool, before the Republic of Ireland international went onto become a pundit for the BBC's football coverage, where he gives the Lilywhites the odd shoutout from time to time.

Another to have North End fan to have lived the dream of playing for the club, Kilbane made over 50 appearances for Preston at the start of his career.

While not quite as successful as Lawrenson in his playing career in terms of honours, the Preston-born former winger has also made the step into punditry since his retirement from playing, again appearing on shows such as Match of the Day and Football Focus.

A name probably more familiar to those across the pond in America, Bennett - who is best known for his spell wrestling in the WWE under the stage name Wade Barrett - is an ardent North End supporter.

He has previously spoken at length about his support for the club, and even brought some of the club's players out during one of his walk-ons during a WWE event in Manchester several years ago.