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Postbag: never mind the width, feel the quality

28 September 2009

This week, the letters editor's satisfied reflection that all the Grimmo dictionary letters have been frightened off is tempered by the realisation there aren't many letters to edit.

Is the Cod Almighty letters page elitist? You tell us.

Return of the red socks&

I believe you may have your facts wrong - I've seen pictures of the late, great Pat Glover in red stockings so it seems it was part of the kit long before Mr Shankly arrived on the scene!

from Hand Job

Letters Ed responds: A colour picture of a 1930s footballer would be something of a rarity, I'd have thought, but the idea that we might be wrong is no stranger to us. Someone somewhere must know when we first played in black and white stripes with red socks?

We're not paranoid: everyone is out to get us

Have CA read Steve Claridge's bit on Mike Newell on the BBC website's sports pages? In the space of a paragraph, Stevie C manages to slag MN both for allowing 'ill-discipline in the ranks' and for being a 'bad manager' (classy).

Any conspiracy theories as to why this tame lower leagues review is so bitchy about our Mike?

from Rory

Letters Ed responds: This part of CA feels that Steve Claridge has not got anything against Mike Newell; he just doesn't know much about him, and even less about Grimsby, therefore exposing the BBC's belief that while they need practically a pundit per "Premier league" team (and several for Liverpool) to provide authoritative coverage, they fondly imagine that one pundit for all 72 teams in the second, third and fourth flights is adequate.

Coming soon, to a T-shirt near you

'CA... T-shirt ...tall building in New York' - if there isn't a T-shirt design in there showing Barry Conlon hanging off the Empire State Building swatting biplanes then I'm Menno Willems.

from Phil

Letters Ed responds: In fact, of course, most of Hollywood's greatest films have been inspired by the Mariners; Alan Buckley is clearly Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, Mike Lyons starred in Titanic as the iceberg, Darren Mansaram "could have been a contender", and I'm sure I don't need to mention that "Godfather" is a typographical error.

No doubt you can think of many more Grimsby-related films, and will share them with us in the next postbag.