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Diary - Tuesday 18 September 2012

18 September 2012

On this date, 22 years ago, John Cockerill scored the goal you voted the seventh best in Grimsby's history, the one which had Roly Godfrey proclaiming: "You won't see a better goal on any pitch in the world by any other player." Take the time to relive the moment. There is nothing in today's news to detain you and John Tondeur's reflections on the quality of the goal, the team, on the very quality of memory bear re-reading.

Even if you weren't at Blundell Park that day, if you are old enough you remember the team and can imagine the goal. Even if that was not your time, you can remember your own moments when you watched as, for a season, for a match, or just for a few seconds, everything fell into place. To recall those moments is not to denigrate the present because another such may be just around the corner. The past is never just history. Which of us who followed the events at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989 did not find ourselves back in the grip of emotions we had almost forgotten last week? Our past is part of us, part of what keeps us going. It is why we have a future.