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Saturday 6 March 2010

Division 4

Grimsby Town 3 Sinclair (45 pen, 57)Akpa Akpro (64)

Shrewsbury Town 0

Attendance: 3651

For scoring two goals, the superficial sponsors wanted to hug Dean Sinclair.

In a strange way no-one was wholly good, but all were consistently decent. Sweeney flattered with his spins and grins, whilst Ak-Ak was a persistent pest, for not even he could predict where the ball would end up after being touched by his presence. Coulson was again perky, pesky and prominent in his probing, but overall for sweeping surges and some calmness in defence it is Mr Straight Peter Bore (just ignore his underhit pass in the first couple of minutes).

"We played with some quality at times today on a pitch that was quite lively. It wasn't the easiest to play on, but we did the hard stuff as well as the pretty stuff and we thoroughly deserved to win."

"They got the first goal at a good time for them but, in the second half, they fully deserved the win. We didn't make enough of our chances or test the keeper."

They play in blue, they're called the Shrews and here is the news: we shall call them Tim, for they are nice but dim. The Timmies turned up looking like a team who knew they'd win. They put in the minimum amount of effort required and failed. Tim never looked like scoring and were much less than the sum of their parts. Oddly enough we aren't disappointed by their attitude. They just looked like they were going through the motions. They should be doing better with the players they have, and they'll succeed in avoiding the play-offs again if they carry on trundling. These Shropshire Blues were stale.

Mr Purple returned, but Town weren't puce-illanimous. It's March -€“ snowdrops and daffodils, butterflies and bees. And what's the definition of a bee? A buzzing thing. We're a buzzin'.

Mr C Sarginson (Staffs)
What a lovely chap. Excellent, top of the shop, pick of the pops he's popping off to Top Shop to pick up his monocle and silver cane. The penalty decision was decided. There Can Be No Doubt. We've had enough mentalist refs not giving us penalties to not worry about minor details. Tough on Shrews, but also tough on the causes of Shrews. Overall he avoided unnecessary stoppages or bookings and was on the sane side of lenient. He was unobtrusive and generally very good indeed. What's an 8.787er doing in the fourth division?

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