Cod Almighty | Match Stats
Saturday 25 October 2014
FA Cup (Q4)
Grimsby Town 3 Arnold (60), John-Lewis (66, 76)
Guiseley 0
Attendance: 1761 (142 away fans)
Dear sponsors, won't you come out to say how you managed to choose Lennell John Lewis? Dear sponsors, open up your eyes and stop watching the telly.
Town won because Nathan Arnold played half a game. Without him Town were insipid, with him slightly inspired.
Once they'd had the sugar rush in the house of the flying tea cups this was a doddle. The first half was low grade rotten, with the Shopping Trolley in particular acting like Guiseley's sweeper. Town had no intensity, being happy
to grind them down with methodical swings and arrows.
But when Arnold arrived the game was a foot and Town were ahead with his head. He's calm when the ball is near him and he is near goal. Hannah has had it though, every effort is getting weaker and further away from goal. He's not even being caught offside now. Little Ross is receding into the Conference North. Or Alfreton. Or both. It's the field in which we place our old nags and old lags these days.
Well, we won. That'll do.
Ooh ah ooh ah ooh ooh kitty. I'll tell you about the guys from the old Yorkshire City. They're kinda small, sort of fine, and were technically adequate if you gave them time. A slightly feebler Altrincham with no goal threat at all.
They tried to play tippy-tappy triangular football on the break, which looked nice. It was all about physique and physical capabilities. The Leeds lopers looked like talented amateurs with no outstanding individuals good or bad; no bad hair, no chubby checkers, freaks and geeks.
Too many holes. They wouldn't survive on the top shelf of the Bananarama.
More interested in discussing mystery beards than the wheelbarrow ballet laid on as entertainment.
Mr K Evans
Didn't get in the way, didn't make any obvious mistakes and performed his function in stopping and starting the game at appropriate moments. Like the game he was utterly unmemorable, so 7.5001
Paceless, faceless, sleepwalking, cyberstalking, substituting. Hey Arnold! Now you're talking.
In a word: Substandards
Town: McKeown; Magnay, Pearson, Nsiala, Thomas; Mackreth, Clay, Disley, Neilson (Arnold 46); Hannah (Walker 81), John-Lewis (Pittman 77)
Subs not used: Bignot, Humble, Winfarrah, McLaughlin
Guiseley: Drench, Lowe, Parker, Toulson, D. Boshell (Stockdill 77), Holdsworth, Rothery, N. Boshell , Brooksby, Lawlor, Boyes (Forrest 68)
Subs not used: Skelton, A. Johnson, O. Johnson, Dickinson