Cod Almighty | Postbag
Our cup runneth under
15 November 2013
Well after the last mammoth postbag you've all clearly thought you wouldn't even bother to ever write again. Yeah, well screw you guys - I'm just going to start making letters up next time. I'll still use your names though, so you'd better write in if you don't want to look a complete nutter.
North n Ant
Not sure if news is slow today but the article below could be linked to our own upcoming cup game.
A former colleague has provided this article on two of our former strikers playing together and actually playing well. It appears that Danny North came off the bench to win the match scoring two and setting up the Anthony Elding (not sure about the picture of him) for the winner.
from Alex Haigh
Letters Ed responds: We're all happy for North, I'm sure. Elding will be happy with Elding too, and that's what matters there.
Chumps league
Y'know, I know it sounds fecking daft, but I'm sitting here in the most beautiful city in Europe (San Sebastian) on a Tuesday morning, contemplating the Real Sociedad v Man Utd game tonight in the Champs League, which I'll be attending, and probably doing some media stuff for. I've been here for 22 years, and I feel an affinity with the Basque club because it's a good club, with all sorts of policies and history that I like - and my son has always been on their horizon, not quite making it but there or thereabouts... and yet I'd give my right testicle to be at the Scunny game on Saturday. FA Cup round 1 proper, cold as a witch's teat, watered-down Bovril at half-time and no room in the bogs to piss...
Champions League? It's alright - but there's nothing like the real thing. The sad thing is that I mean it. And we'll win. Wish I could be there.
from Phil Ball
Letters Ed responds: Ah, the mucky beef-water they called bovril. Or sometimes I had that "tomato" soup - it often left a powdery, lumpy residue at the bottom of the plastic mug.
Probably still better for you than them burgers you get now, mind.
Season tickle
I read with interest in the Scunny Telegraph site about Mariners fans spending over £2000 on season tickets just so they can make the FA Cup reply.
That journalistic sensationalism makes it sound like a big deal, but what is it really? 10 people? 15 maybe? Hardly life-changing news, eh?
from Steve McKatt
Letters Ed responds: You know when Fenty mentioned there'd be "small monies" available in January...
Show Ground and tell
Overcome with excitement at the FA Cup draw, I reverted to programme nerd mode and unearthed my copy of the Old Showground FA Cup third round pamphlet from 8th January 1983. The game is described as "the biggest game to come to the Old Show Ground for years" - and that in a year when a certain Mr I T Botham made four wobbly appearances for the Iron. Town were going strong in Division 2 at the time of course, and little Scunny were in Division Four (with the Taagers) and could be patronised by us on a regular basis.
I have to admit the game has left an indelible blank on my mind, but the record reads that it ended goalless in front of 11,010 people, with the Mariners winning the replay at BP 2-0 on the following Tuesday courtesy of Joe Waters and Tony Ford.
Let's hope for a repeat this time eh?
from Chris Beeley
A bit fishy
Funny how you're not allowed to say anything bad about our glorious and magnificent ex-chairman on the Fishy messageboard yet it's deemed perfectly acceptable to go on there and reminisce about smacking people in the head for watching football.
What an odd set of priorities.
from Dave Berry
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