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The IT technician seemed more concerned I was reading about Grimsby
29 January 2012
"Cliff Portwood, Clive Mendonca, Neil Woods, Liam Hearn ... Liam Hearn, Liam Hearn, your boys gave us one hell of a beating" as a commentator from Radio Bath no doubt said.
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Paul Scott and Rob Hurst get with the Grimsby programme
Are you sure we only won 0-1 at Cambridge? The Grauniad results section gave it as 0-4.
from Russell Moseley
Letters Ed responds: Thrashing teams 1-0 is a venerable Grimsby tradition. A tribute to the old master's reappearance in the Radio Humberside commentary box.
No disrespect to the likes of Port Vale
A Port Vale loyalist writing on the net manages to combine his admiration for the late lamented former Mariners striker Cliff Portwood with a cheap shot at our beloved club and town with the following words: "I can remember my disappointment as a 10 year old when Cliff left the Vale... for Grimsby, of all places! Sad he has died comparatively young - once a Valiant, always a Valiant. Hope he is remembered on Saturday at Vale Park."
Seems, however, looking at the final league table for 1961/62 - the season Cliff left the dark satanic mills of the Potteries for the delightful Costa East - that Cliff was not only both a talented goalscoring and recording star but also a great judge of football teams... Town finished the season second, with 62 points, some way above Port Vale in 12th.
It would be remiss of me to fail to mention the result of this season's FA Cup first round replay...
from Walt Disley (no relation)
Letters Ed responds: To be fair to the Vale fan, it might just have been the FA Cup that was fresh in his mind...
Any friend of Barry Fry is frankly strange
Tell me we're not becoming a feeder club for Peterborough United!
Bad enough that Ryan Bennett went but not Hearn too. Fingers crossed the board have the bottle to hang on to him for a year or so. Maybe they'll need to cash in eventually but it would be nice to see us challenge for promotion and hopefully get back in the league before we do sell.
Regards,
from Rich Mills
Letters Ed responds: [Enter your own "Boo Hearns, didn't score against Telford, let's get rid" nesbitry here]
From York, in a kindly spirit
I hope you don't take this email wrong. York and Grimsby don't have a great deal in common, I suppose. There was charismatic card magnet Alan Pouton, before you broke him and sold him to Gillingham (did he ever do the dyeing his hair leopardskin thing when he was with you?). We once had Dave Gilbert on loan. Neil Woods finished his league career with us, a period during which he failed to trouble the scorer, or, I believe, ever broke fully into a run. You had Manny Panther for a bit. That sort of thing. It's not St Pauli and Celtic, is it?
But I have been reading your excellent website for a number of years now, even after the time you linked to that naked girl on a roundabout and I had all that explaining to do at work,* and I am just genuinely glad that you're getting a break from the dismal time you've had of late. Painful to witness, it was, even from a supposedly detached viewpoint. You're a proper club, as far as I can see, not two Southern Sunday League teams amalgamated by a cellphone millionaire and housed on an industrial estate near Bedford for his own personal amusement.
So, despite the fact you are now certain to bugger our play-off hopes on the 11th, can I breathe out the small piece of breath I had been holding for you, and wish you well around the turned corner?
regards
from Jon
Letters Ed responds: *The IT technician, by the way, seemed more concerned by the fact I was reading about Grimsby than the nude lady. Thanks Jon. Neil Woods never really did running. He did thinking, linking and scoring. Sorry if he only did that for us, not you. As for Pouton, by the time he was bust, there was many an opposition midfielder with a purple shinbone to remember him by.
Whatever happened to Clive Mendonca
London Mariners need to know about this.
"Due to popular demand, 'An Evening with Clive Mendonca and Steve Jones'. Please click on this link for details."
from Alexander Haigh
Letters Ed responds: Apparently, Clive is selling his Charlton memorabilia to raise funds for his wife's business.
Thanks to Alexander and to you all.