Cod Almighty | Match Stats
Saturday 16 October 2021
FA Cup
Bromsgrove Sporting 0
Grimsby Town 5 Revan, (18, 28), Longe-King (26), John-Lewis (83 pen), Bapaga (90+5)
Attendance: 3216 (562 away fans)
Revan and Bapaga will get the plaudits, but the platform for pleasure was the rock-solid central defence and the stranglehold in midfield. Fox was in their box and in our box, at the same time too.
The deadpan master of mirth was in full-on shrug mode. Yeah, we won dead easy, but you know, we should, so there's no reason to get too excited. There ain't no laurels to rest on here:
"Some probably did themselves some good and some I'm looking for a little bit more from if I'm totally honest. Still, I'm delighted to have got through."
After being reduced to four million bags of bones by "not Man City" the Irish 'Grover was without smart witty talk, no longer the cock of the walk:
"You have to give credit to Grimsby, with the gulf in class and quality, but I certainly feel like we could have given a better account of ourselves."
Lennie, poor old Lennie. He hasn't lost that Midas touch, that spider's touch. He's still King Midas in reverse. The Great Disrupter provided great entertainment for all, helping to keep the score down within acceptable parameters of stuffing.
What can we take from this? Attitude. When being served up as the slayable goliath for TV, that's the top and bottom of it.
Town were sweet and sensational and there was absolutely nothing the raggedy Rouslers could do about it. It's just one of those things you have to put down to experience.
They tried hard, they did their best right to the end, but if a team, even a second string team, from a much higher division plays at full pelt then cup dreams die a death like cold lasagne. We had the same experience at Stamford Bridge, remember.
The chips were lovely, as were their staff.
Didn't we have a lover-ly time the day we went to Bromsgrove.
Mr S Tallis
An eccentric maverick who was consistently inconstant in applying the laws of the land, depending upon the colour of the shirt. He bent over backwards to keep the score down from the start, then lost the plot he never had: 1.234
Turned on, tuned in, so not out of the cup.
In a word: professional
Bromsgrove Sporting: Onodi, Dugmore, Broadhurst, Mace, Bloomer (Fisher), Hayward, Newell (Brown), Masidi, Shorrock, Taylor (Ebbutt), Pais
Subs not used: Clayton, Spink, Hallahan
Booked: Bloomer, Masadi
Town: Crocombe, Sears, Longe-King, Pearson, Revan, Sousa (Wright 59), Fox (Essel 74), Coke, Clifton (Khouri h-t), Bapaga, John-Lewis
Subs not used: McKeown, Efete, Towler, Hunt
KO 12.30