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Ever wondered about the lives of those responsible for that website you occasionally read over your sandwiches on a Wednesday lunchtime? Wonder no more...
Life president
Simon Wilson
Simon lives in deepest, darkest West Yorkshire betwixt Leeds and Bradford. While being too close to Valley Parade for his liking, one positive consequence is that Town's youth team play just up the road from Si's house once a season. Currently spends his spare time trying to brainwash, we mean convince his daughter and son that supporting Town is the righteous path.
Founding editorial team
Simon Wilson, Pete Green, Mat Hare, Andy Holt, Miles Moss, Mark Stilton
Current editorial team
Peter Anderson
Laying claim to Croft Baker maternity home's most Irish accent grants a lifetime answering the one-word question of "Grimsby?" Despite this, Peter still hasn't perfected the simple explanation of having an Irish mum and Grimbarian dad without feeling like a mumbling eejit. Spent the 80s and 90s living in Ireland and London, travelling to Town games alone, impatiently awaiting the invention of social media. Feeling at home in Cleethorpes despite not having lived there in 40 years. Exile insecurity has led to owning too many Town shirts and embarking with his dad on a two-man mission to establish the word 'crikey' on the island of Ireland.
Pat Bell
At school in mid Wales, Pat's claims to support Grimsby led most of his fellow pupils to assume he was one of those kids who wasn't interested in football but just pretended to support a fourth division side to take the piss (a view reinforced when they watched his efforts on the pitch). Numerous family moves have left Pat, a third-generation Mariner, having to reconcile supporting Grimsby at football, Wales at rugby and Yorkshire at cricket. Pat missed out on Town's 1980s spell in the second division because he was too busy fomenting revolution: a capacity in which he once stunned a member of the Grimsby Labour Party. "I was at a meeting in London but found myself standing next to a chap who'd spoken earlier about the failings of Grimsby Labour Party. He (and Bill Brewster, who was with him) duly fainted when this bloke from Llanelli started to engage them in a conversation about Harry Wainman all evening..."
Pete Green
As a young kid Pete went to nearly every home game in the 1979-80 season but missed the title-clinching 4-0 win over Sheffield United. The ensuing maelstrom of regret and self-loathing has informed their later life as an obscure musician and poet with holes in their socks. Pete works on Cod Almighty in between writing, singing, watching Ready Steady Cook, and going to the pub; likes Scotland but is not an advocate of kilts; and has elicited suspicious looks upon meeting Iain Ward, Mike Newell and Kevin Drinkell.
Rich Mills
Mark Stilton
Usually found sulking at the back of the Pontoon. Mark is famous for distracting Gazza during the home match against Burnley in the 2001-02 season. Mark heckled, Gazza missed the free kick and Town won the game and stayed in Division One. He is still waiting for a thank-you note from Blundell Park.
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Match reporter extraordinaire
Tony Butcher
Tony, CA's resident match reporter, is often seen moping around the outer boundaries of BP trying to pass himself off as a manager (it's all in the coat). Some may say he does a better job of this than his Stuart Hall-like match reports, but they're just bitter. Has been known to write songs about Kevin Jobling and will shout "foul throw" at random points throughout a match.
Some other regular contributors
Andy Lumbard
Andy lives in Brackley, south Northamptonshire, and is more likely to be found at away games that are within a couple of hours' travelling time than at home games. He started going to games in the late 1960s with his grandad, who used to make him walk from Torrington Street. He lived through the Tees and Chatterley eras, abstained from the Lyons era through lack of interest, and returned to the matchday experience in the early 90s with his son Ross, who was not only old enough to whinge like a true supporter but too young to become a glory-seeking, trophy-hunting follower of a Premiership side which he would only see on TV. Andy grew up in Grimsby and attended Clee Grammar. It was at junior school that his sporting opportunities were missed. While representing Waltham Leas in the 50 yards he was always beaten by a couple of kids from Nunsthorpe and Bursar Street: Tony Ford and Glenn Cockerill... now whatever happened to them?
Paul Ketchley
Paul now lives in St Albans, and rumour has it that he moved from Kent in 2003 because we no longer played at Selhurst Park and Gillingham, and he could get to Luton and Peterborough easily. His first game was the 1956 championship-winning match against Bradford City.
Sam Metcalf
Sam can't remember his first match at Blundell Park, but it was probably cold and wet. And the weather wouldn't have been much better. After moving away from Grimsby in the early nineties, vowing never to go to The Barge ever again until they relaid the mucky carpets, Sam now lives in Nottingham and doesn't get to Blundell Park half as much as he would like. He still owns one of those black and white wigs from the Wembley season and wears it now and again while out shopping.
Alistair Wilkinson
Growing up surrounded by Hull and Scunthorpe fans ensured an antipathy toward our Humber cousins that continued after Al had got into footy. Now whiles away the long hours in a frozen veg workhouse thinking of rhyming words, and regularly being reminded of how "shit" Town are by his factory fodder brethren.