Cod Almighty | Features
Comeback kings
By Ron Counte, 9 May 2019
Liverpool, Tottenham... and Grimsby Town. As Ron Counte recalls, we have our own history of turning the tables
Game changer: Grimsby's close-season needs
By Ron Counte, 5 May 2019
Michael Jolley wants to bring Town into line with modern trends in football. Ron Counte considers how he must strengthen his squad
Losing 5-0 was not the worst of it: Town's 1980 Anfield experience
By Rob McIlveen, 2 May 2019
In 1980, Liverpool could claim to be the best team in the world. But Rob McIlveen remembers their treatment of Town fans was shameful
Mozegekony: the Elemer Berkessy story
By Tom Sargent, 25 April 2019
In November 1954, Grimsby were the first English club to appoint a foreign coach. Tom Sargent tells the tale
Tommy of the Town: season 2, episode 1
By Cod Almighty, 15 April 2019
Chairman Nunty has shoehorned some space into his packed schedule to bring us up to speed with the season so far, starting with recruiting a new manager
Moore Magazine
By Cod Almighty, 11 April 2019
Have you picked up the latest edition of Moore magazine?
Teachers and policemen
By Neville Butt, 9 April 2019
Not all ex-players run a pub or open a sports shop. Neville Butt remembers some who swapped boots for mortarboard or truncheon
Champions: part two of a story based on true events
By Gordon Wilson & Andy Freeman, 5 April 2019
7 April 1934: Hull v Grimsby with the second division title at stake. Gordon Wilson and Andy Freeman take you back in time
Fenty's Six Game Rule
By Cod Almighty, 1 April 2019
A football manager is always six games from the what?
Champions: a short story based on true events
By Gordon Wilson & Andy Freeman, 29 March 2019
Anlaby Road, Hull. 7 April 1934. A Grimsby win will make sure of the second division title. Gordon Wilson and Andy Freeman imagine the mood
Happy anniversary, Mr Jolley
By Ron Counte, 11 March 2019
Michael Jolley has now completed 46 league games as Grimsby manager. Ron Counte reflects on his progress
Seventh heaven and unholy smoke
By Lee Johnson, 1 March 2019
At the end of February 1990, Town seemed to be going nowhere. Seven games in March changed all that. Lee Johnson saw it all
Something good
By Alistair Wilkinson, 25 February 2019
Michael Jolley and his team are putting to bed a lot of bad memories, and Al Wilkinson is enjoying the ride
Proper ground, proper floodlights
By Peter Anderson, 21 February 2019
We've seen our last game under BP's historic lights without even knowing it, laments Peter Anderson. How could this happen?
Loco in El Paso
By Janusz Przeniczny, 17 February 2019
Andrew Fox has joined a club that has never lost a game, because it's only just been invented. Janusz Przeniczny muses on his new club
I wasn't there: The day we hammered Huddersfield 2-2
By Richard Lord, 15 February 2019
In 1997, a Mariners performance left a young Rich Lord unable to tear himself away from the radio, then unable to listen to it
Whither the Chips?
By Cod Almighty, 31 January 2019
Who else got this cracking football annual for Christmas?
Just Seventeenth
By Cod Almighty, 28 January 2019
This week's copy of Just Seventeenth features Foxy on the cover, fashion advice and 4 posters! Get yersen down the shops
Nunty Comic
By Cod Almighty, 21 January 2019
This week's Nunty comic sees John unveil his vision for the future
Plastics: the only way up is to stay down
By Bored Member, 18 January 2019
Blundell Park is under threat from the scourge of the fair weather fan. Stern measures are needed. Bored Member is on the case
The night we thrashed Spurs 0-3
By Pat Bell, 8 January 2019
The defeat at Crystal Palace was not the only time Town have been magnificent in defeat. Pat Bell remembers when Spurs visited Blundell Park in 1991
I was there when Town won at Selhurst
By Peter Anderson, 3 January 2019
Away wins for Town at Crystal Palace have been few and far between. Peter Anderson is one of very few to have witnessed one
The year we touched the sky
By Lee Johnson, 9 December 2018
In 1983-84, Town achieved their best league position since dropping out of the top flight in 1948. Lee Johnson saw every game
Live streaming: embrace the change
By Alex Gerlis, 5 December 2018
It can open up Town games to people who otherwise wouldn't follow them at all. Alex Gerlis makes the case for live streaming
Brian Hill and other crimes against humanity
By Tony Barker, 30 November 2018
In a pivotal match in 1991, referee Brian Hill ignored a blatant penalty-area foul on Shaun Cunnington. Tony Barker remembers
Fortress Blundell Park?
By John Perry, 29 November 2018
Is Blundell Park a fortress? John Perry looks at the numbers.
The Cod Almighty guide to modern football
By Rich Mills, 21 November 2018
Cut through modern football's inpenetrable jargon with our simple guide
A hero and the price he paid: Matt Tees and dementia
By Ron Counte, 8 November 2018
Matt Tees made a generation of fans fall in love with Grimsby Town, but at a price. Ron Counte remembers. Now with your comments added
Brian Hill: wonderful wing-raider
By Gordon Wilson, 29 October 2018
In the 1960s, Grimsby enjoyed the services of a winger who could torment England internationals. Gordon Wilson remembers Brian Hill
A Tommy of the Town digest
By Cod Almighty, 4 October 2018
There's more Tommy on the way so why not remind yourselves what your heroes got up to last season
Great Scott!
By Rich Mills, 18 September 2018
Andy Freeman's two-parter on the career of Johnny Scott inspired Cod Almighty's readers to draw on their memories of the great man
April showers
By Ron Counte, 1 August 2018
Last season Town fans experienced every possible emotion in one remarkable month. Ron Counte will never forget how it felt
Parklife: a seventies childhood on Sussex Rec
By Ron Counte, 24 July 2018
"We played football. Lots of it. Every day." Ron Counte remembers the long summer holidays of the early 1970s
Of Owls and Cods
By Gordon Wilson, 19 July 2018
Could the Mariners face Cleethorpes Town in a league fixture one day? Gordon Wilson knows a club that's risen from the same level as the Owls
They used to play on gravel: seven intriguing GTFC friendlies
By Pete Green, 17 July 2018
The club's first ever match in 1878, a thrashing of Japan under McMenemy, a gravel pitch in Iceland, and much more...
GTFC Happiness Index July 2018
By Peter Anderson & Rich Mills, 16 July 2018
We're here to help you track the local mood, despite the Grimbarian's binary think-habit of despair or euphoria