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7 September 2017

Grimsby is reeling after Karleigh Osborne told the Telegraph that last Saturday's win was just a blip and that he'll be sticking pins in voodoo dolls of Danny Collins and Nathan Clarke if they start games ahead of him.

What? No, of course not. Osborne said all the things you expect a 21st century footballer to say. There is no individual blame attached to James Findlater for asking the questions or to Osborne for answering them, but don't you think there is too much writing about football nowadays?

You are still here? OK, over to you then. On Tuesday we opened up a theme of players who have been getting stick suddenly doing something glorious. One instance be might James McKeown, who – after a few fans had been bleating on about how he ought to make a public apology for putting in a transfer request – saved a penalty on his recall.

Martin Robinson has another example. He is hazy on the details of the match but says: "I used to give Tommy Widdrington a lot of stick, mainly because he cost us a big fee and I thought he was slow and limited when compared to players like Cockerill, Cunnington and Waters. My comeuppance came one home game when he hit a 25-yarder into the top corner at the Pontoon end. He headed for the Lower Findus looking for his tormentors, who I'm sure his celebration was aimed at, and I was at the centre of it."

If you have more instances of stickees proving their worth, send them in.

Talkng of worms turning, we've had a letter about worms, along with others about stons of potatoes and Stalinism. Watch out for a forthcoming postbag.