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Saturday 2 February 2008

Division 4

Notts County 1 Butcher (59)

Grimsby Town 1 Fenton (61)

Attendance: 4902

The back three (well, Fenton eventually) played as a cohesive unit, fighting and thinking and not sinking under the Big Bertha barrage. Boshell was a tigerish tackler and occasional strolling playermaker in midfield but, for running around a lot and being a total pest, it's Peter Till. He caused the opposition to twitch, which is more than any Town player has done recently.

"We started really well, had a couple of great chances and should have had it won by half time. We should have finished them, but the thing that pleased me most was that we passed the ball better."

"When you go one up at home and keep it tight for 10 to 15 minutes afterwards, you go on and win the game. That was the frustrating thing. We worked our socks off to take the lead and within five minutes it was 1-1."

There really is no need to analyse them, for they churn out the same tosh every year; it just gets to be a lower standard of rubbish. They can expect to do no better than not get relegated, as there will be some teams who will be physically unable to cope with their version of the towering inferno, and they have a decent goalkeeper; and Edwards can still defend. They give fourth division football a bad name. Even Neil Warnock would be embarrassed by a team with the guile and sophistication of a rhinoceros on rhubarb.

Mr R East (origins uncertain)
Apart from ending the game as a throw zoomed towards the County goal there is absolutely nothing to complain about. Nothing at all, not even a slight gurgle in the stomach caused by an over-effervescent tonic water with your gin. He didn't book anyone, because there was no need to book anyone. He didn't give daft free kicks or even dafter penalties. He made sensible decisions sensibly, in time, and was completely in control of the game. How can the world come to such depths? I wish to apologise to the nation. He gets 8.723.

Town played reasonably well and didn't lose. Paper Lace consisted of Philip Wright, Cliff Fish, Chris Morris, Carlo Santana and Michael Vaughan, and some of them have shaved off their beards by now.