Boulding replaced Allen at half time, a straight swap with no tactical changes. The Town fans gave the mighty midget a huge cheer. What goes "Yay Town! Swish, thunk"? Why, it's the Grimsby Reaper, metaphorically severing the heads of managers just after their teams have lost to the Mariners!

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As thetitle implies, the emphasis of the book is on the 209 illustrations, but there is also a narrative history.The availability of pictures, no doubt, and Geoff Ford's personal experience means that the 1970s and 1980s are covered in more detail than earlier periods in the club's history. We were 5-0 down at half time at Palace in 1995-96, and later that season lost 6-3 at relegated Watford. Did you see us lose 5-3 at Forest on the opening day of the 1993-94 season? Maybe you can remember us being thumped by Orient in 1988-89. Nunsthorpe, housing estate of ill repute in the south-west of Grimsby. Drugs, joyriding, all that caper. Many Grimbarians insist that the Nunny is no worse than some other areas but just gets all the bad press when the Grimsby Telegraph runs one of its 'Crime: Let's Misrepresent It' campaigns It was not difficult to see why each Arsenal player had been handed a contract; they were bigger, stronger, faster and all were able to read the game – they made many interceptions simply by observing the Town players. They had been coached well and were able to follow those instructions. They'd be pushing for a play-off place in division one ('cos they weren't that good). But they had Bergkamp and, if the memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime, then he won't remember this. His brain still works, but his legs don't. So, I'll sign off with the matches in which Grimsby Town proudly scored and embarrassingly conceded five goals or more. How many of them do you remember, and how many of them did you attend? If you have stories from any of these games, please share them with us!ear. For minor misdemeanours deemed not to justify having their guts for garters, wayward children may be issued with a clip round the lughole I probably overlooked a couple of Arsenal shots, but you, and I, don't care about that. As far as Town goes, there was one more effort and, hold on to your functional headwear, it was on target. We made their keeper touch the ball with his hands. A triumph and something to tell your grandchildren on a future festive occasion. This books provides impressively detailed short biographiesof every player to have appeared for Grimsby up to the time of publication, often providing quotes that illustrate their playing style, notable incidents and their career before and after football.

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To lose 4-0 is just a heavy defeat, or a disappointment. It's a bad day at the office. But to lose 5-0 is, well, an abomination. It's not just a defeat; it's an embarrassment. A line has been crossed. Arsenal 3 Halifax 5. Imagine that! It used to get my adrenaline pumping to such a degree that I had to play the game out in the garden, with commentary running through my head. Unexpected rain in the Trent Bridge area as near three thousand travelling Townites get a soaking while hoping we won't be moping in the Midlands come midnight, when this game is due to end. Did you know, for example, that when we won 5-2 at Alfreton in 2012, it was the first time we'd scored exactly five goals away from home since winning 5-1 at Middlesbrough in 1984? In between then, we'd scored six on the road twice, at Boston then Histon. transitive verb: to (illegally) take a passenger on one's pushbike in such a configuration that they occupy the saddle and hold onto one's hips for balance while one pedals and steers from a standing position; eg. I pagged him all the way from the Nunny! Also noun: the ride given in this manner; eg. Pags are dead immo!

Crank up the Vernamator! Town in a hurry with a bit of a flurry. Crosses flashing hither and thither and through the six-yard box from left then right. Little Harry's careful curl deflected wide. Eisa was spotted then swotted, Conteh began to clamp. Nice. It was in the early 2000s when we first noticed this pattern. Town would win a game; the other team's chairman would decide nothing could be more humiliating than losing against Grimsby; the manager would pay with his job (or almost, as in Gerard Houllier's case, his life). What's remarkable is that, in those 40 years, we have lost more games than we've won, with an overall negative goal difference, and we’re also two divisions in the negative, with five promotions to seven relegations. In his post-match ramble did you spot a gentle rain falling softly in Paul Hurst's weary eyes as if to hide a lonely tear? A match-by-match account of Grimsby Town's Division Two championship season of 1900-01, full of period detail, with additional chapters on Town's previous second flight seasons, and the two they spent in Division One.

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Our emergency replacement diary service has broken down somewhere near Mablethorpe, so while punctured egos are being fixed we need something to sate your desire for some mid-week diversion from the hum-drummery of the blank week before Walsall.Charles Ekberg covered Grimsby for over a quarter of a century, and is thoroughly immersed in its culture. Although he quite often gets bogged down in reciting statistical details that you will find more clearly conveyed in A complete record (qv) or the Dave Wherry books, and occasionally repeats himself,his book nevertheless conveys, through snippets and anecdotes,a good sense of the part played by the Mariners in the life of the town. Here, then, we list the Reaper's victims in full, for the sake of posterity and to inform future generations about when Town used to be good (and to show off because we just used it to get GTFC into the Totalitarian League on the marvellous 606 With Danny Baker). distinctively Grimbarian abbreviation for Coronation Street, which is truncated by the rest of the Anglophone world to "Corrie" As a fan of five in football, I was delighted with the 5-5 draw between Wrexham and Swindon on Saturday 19th August 2023. Two teams scoring five in a game? Now that is rare. After Neilson had given the ball away and been roasted and toasted (with a crunchy cheese topping) Aliadiere (Scrabble bag boy) hit a low shot from 20 yards which skipped over Groves' heels and travelled towards the bottom right-hand corner of the goal. Coyne threw himself horizontally across and parried the ball away for a corner. He even caught the corner when it came in. In the last minute or two another one of the substitutes (Halls, how unusual an Anglo-Saxon name on their team sheet) ran onto a Bergkamp low cross from their right and, from about 12 yards out at the near post, swept the ball across the face of the goal and just wide. Oh, and Bergkamp spun and twisted past Groves in the penalty area on the Town right, got to the bye-line and crossed into the centre of the goal mouth. Little Ben leapt (perhaps like a salmon) and headed the ball over the bar.

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staggeringly gruesome threat of punishment or retribution made mostly, again, by loving parents to young children (see also buggerlugs) immature; used in early teens to denounce behaviour of peer and confer spurious sense of adulthood on speaker; eg. You're dead immo, you are, Greenie! Grimsby. Current research suggests that the term emerged in the mid-1990s as a humorous tribute to the townspeople's fondness for abbreviating words by taking the first syllable and adding the letter O (see Freemo, immo, Boato, etc) From prison to the Premiership: the amazing true story of Britain’s hardest footballer with Ron ShillingfordAn extract from Reminiscences of sport in Grimsby, published shortly before Lincoln's death in 1912, this an often irreverent, jocular history of the early years of the club. It mixes anecdotes with stray snippets of factual information, like lists of elected officials, team line-ups for particular matches, season records and league tables. But here's where we flip the negative because, for all those defensive calamities down the years, Town have actually hit five goals or more almost twice as often as we’ve conceded them.