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Football Family

19 December 2024

Mr Target Demographic Diary, also known as Charlie Cross turns 21. The perfect opportunity for his mum to remind us what a treasure the game of football is

A Pilchard Sandwich For Tea

Match report

15 December 2024

A Pilchard Sandwich For Tea

O Captain, My Captain!

12 December 2024

Next up in the TVFTF hall of fame it's the rock when we were in a hard place. Sarah Mann's so glad we got Captain Sensible aboard the ship of fools

The sound and the fury

Match report

16 October 2024

Town's recent unstoppable streak of not losing many games has propelled them to within touching distance of league respectability. But at what cost?

Match report

22 September 2024

They Might Be Giants

If

Match report

15 September 2024

The Invasion of the Bodyslammers

Match report

9 July 2024

W.H.Y. Rich Lord sets out why those holding any power, even down to just someone where you work, need to explain why they do what they do, or don't do

Women's Football - time to change

27 June 2024

Dale Houlston, ex-manager of GTFC ladies team, shares his thoughts on the future of women's football at Town

The Final Cut: politics, plans and power to the people

19 June 2024

"Gee Jason, what do you wanna do tonight? Same thing we do every night Tony, try to take over the world!"

Scarlet runners

16 June 2024

For a few months in 1934, Grimsby Town were perhaps the best team in England. As Pat Bell writes, they were helped by their choice of sock

Jason Stockwood: Money, Balls and Moneyball

12 June 2024

Basement tapes part 2: kicking tyres over old ground as we await the promised landing of the Football Regulator. Talking Hurst, hope and glory

Jason Stockwood - Life is Life: from Scaffa to Sunny California

5 June 2024

Ex-Chairman Wow rang our bell and the result is a summer sensation. Here's part one of the Blundell Park blockbuster you've been waiting for.

Money Can't Buy Me Livvo

Match report

4 June 2024

Money Can't Buy Me Livvo

Life, the universe and everything Town

2 June 2024

Can you feel it? That rumble, it ain't your stomach, something big's heading your way. There will be revelations about the revolution...

It Doesn't Matter Anymore

Match report

31 May 2024

It Doesn't Matter Anymore

The Future Is Now

Match report

31 May 2024

The Future Is Now

Won't Get Fooled Again

Match report

30 May 2024

Won't Get Fooled Again

Dear Jason Stockwood

18 May 2024

Fed up with the trickle of tosh on the internet of imbecility, the Pontoon's Poet Laureate gives the club a public hug from us all

Sonnet 2023/24: Winter Love

8 May 2024

The Pontoon’s very own poet laureate lightly lacerates last season’s losers with some vaguely vicious verse

Still ropey after all these years

Match report

29 April 2024

Still ropey after all these years

Duff in the afternoon

Match report

29 April 2024

Duff in the afternoon

Things can only get better

Match report

28 April 2024

Things can only get better

Heroes and Villains

Match report

21 April 2024

Heroes and Villains

John Tondeur - with a little help from his friends

19 April 2024

Listen, do you want to know a secret? Well, Mr T may be about to tell you a few more things as the end of his era approaches.

Time to write it off as a bad day at the office and move on

17 April 2024

After finally escaping the car park of doom at Colchester Paul Ketchley tells it straight. Well, someone has to

Comedy Nights

Match report

17 April 2024

Comedy Nights

All lessons learned

Match report

15 April 2024

All lessons learned

In the box with John Tondeur - talking back with happiness

12 April 2024

Every picture tells a story. Mr T has so many from inside the commentary box, tales of Big Keith, sandwiches, fan interaction and…Helen Shapiro

Bad Vibrations

Match report

Match report

13 March 2024

The hot troll deviation

Confessions of a milkman

Match report

10 March 2024

Confessions of a milkman

You need hands

Match report

6 March 2024

You need hands

Match report

2 January 2024

The mirror cracked

A Rose by no other name

Match report

29 October 2023

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

There goes our everything

Match report

25 October 2023

There goes our everything

Stormy Weather

Match report

22 October 2023

Stormy Weather

6 August 2023

Tired of waiting

Show us the money

10 July 2023

Lincoln, Luton and Town - no longer joined at the hip but ships sailing in different waters. Tony Butcher looks at their finances and sees how it all adds up.

Too good to be forgotten

27 June 2023

What's another year? DN35's Mike McMahon looks back on a season when Town's cup runneth over

For Services To Grimsby Town

18 June 2023

In 1972 Town held a competition to design a new club badge. The story of the winning designer should be celebrated, yet is not widely known.

Doubtless the world's most important spoon

Match report

9 May 2023

Doubtless the world's most important spoon

Match report

12 April 2023

Anyone for Tennis

The future of tomorrow is here, yesterday

11 April 2023

Our AI author JAIson St0ckw00d tells us how AI, data and technology will drive football in the future.

Dieseruvwe Survivors Support Group

10 April 2023

Wrexham and Notts fans gather at the Racecourse today as they try to come to terms with the 2022 National League Playoffs

Simple Minds

Match report

8 April 2023

Simple Minds

Last Orders Please

Match report

2 April 2023

Last Orders Please

Living on the ceiling

Match report

26 March 2023

Living on the ceiling

Everything but the goal

Match report

23 March 2023

Everything but the goal

28 February 2023

Our own ancient Mariner, Neville Butt, has a wander down memory lane to find the connections between the Mariners and the Saints

Runaround

Match report

26 February 2023

Runaround

Sleepers

What about the orange?

Match report

29 January 2023

What about the orange?

One Meek Moment In Time

25 January 2023

Where has he been? Well, Meek's been sitting in the Main Stand, contemplating. And now he walks from place to place, meeting people, getting into adventures.

Requiem for a post-Christmas dream

Match report

15 January 2023

Requiem for a post-Christmas dream

Blunderbore!

Match report

8 January 2023

Blunderbore!

A resolution in the head

Match report

Match report

Match report

1 October 2022

Not drowning but waving

Strange days

Match report

28 September 2022

Strange days

Knowing us, knowing Kristine Green

27 September 2022

Exclusive! Dame Kristine Green (SLO, BEM, cha-cha-cha), our very own special K, reveals the shocking secret of how she was the only dry Town fan in Bromley.

100 minutes of solitude

Match report

25 September 2022

100 minutes of solitude

Sausages

Match report

18 September 2022

Sausages

A hard day's night

Match report

14 September 2022

A hard day's night

Knowing us, knowing Steve Meek

13 September 2022

Once the gangster rapper of Love Lane Corner and now the Tetney Tupac he's the ace face of CA. Come dive down to the very bottom of the barrel with Steve Meek

A tale of two finals

28 July 2022

There are uncanny similarities between the 2016 and 2022 play-off finals. The difference is that this time we won't squander our success, writes Ron Counte

Helter-skelter: Town's return to the Football League

24 July 2022

Kick-started by one amazing comeback, it ended with a three peaks challenge. Ron Counte recalls the test of character that was our return to the Football League

Knowing us, knowing Miles Moss

19 July 2022

You only knew him for a while, but we know he will have made you smile. He used to be a joker, so let your hands come together for mystic Miles Moss

Knowing us, knowing Paul Thundercliffe

7 July 2022

We all must have a code that we can live by. It's a family thing for former muser, and Sir Alan of Buckley's biographer, Mr Paul Thundercliffe.

Feeling Brad All Over

Match report

5 July 2022

Feeling Brad All Over

Silent Drubbings

Match report

28 June 2022

Silent Drubbings

Let's hear it for the boys - part two

24 June 2022

And finally, Cyril, the last of our leavers receive the Butcher treatment. Jamie Mack gets a pat on the back and there's a Glasgow kiss for Da Rose

Knowing us, knowing Mike Shelton

21 June 2022

When he was a boy Durham Diary spent his time sitting in the ranks of the Pontoon Stand musing on the amusing witticisms of the old timers; then he left town, but not Town.

Let's hear it for the boys - part one

17 June 2022

After the euphoria comes the elegies and eulogies for those we are losing. Tony Butcher turns his purple gaze to the flotsam and jetsam of the unretained.

Knowing us, knowing Rich Lord

7 June 2022

Hallelujah! You’ll really wanna know Rich after reading some sweet words from the man behind All That and a Bag of Chips

E pluribus unum

Report on the construction of situations

Match report

11 May 2022

Report on the construction of situations

Knowing us, knowing Bill Meek

10 May 2022

Why are you going to read this article? Because it's Retro Diary, the very top of the barrel of diarists. Some things are a given, and we give you the musings of the elder Meek.

Strange Days

Match report

Match report

19 April 2022

Missing Inaction

Distant Karma

Match report

17 April 2022

Distant Karma

27 March 2022

Poems! Poems, laddie! It's time for Al, the Bard of Blundell Park, telling tales of drunkenness and the cruelty of being a Town fan.

Sitting by the riverside

Match report

27 March 2022

Sitting by the riverside

22 March 2022

Current editor-in-chief Pat Bell is our very own history man. Now read his story about how a Welsh man is umbilically connected to Town; it's literally in his DNA.

Wheeltappers and Shunters

Match report

20 March 2022

Wheeltappers and Shunters

Ivano: the man and the myth

17 March 2022

This week Ivano Bonetti returns to Blundell Park. Dan Humphrey reflects on his meteoric Grimsby Town career

Knowing us, knowing Richard Dawson

15 March 2022

You've bought the t-shirts from Richard. Now take a trip into the head of the original Guest Diary, Town's very own Wavy Gravy

"A football invasion": Town fans in 1920s Nottingham

13 March 2022

Nottingham was a popular away day for Grimsby supporters but even in the 1930s it did not always pass without trouble. Pat Bell looks back

Back down the same old road

Match report

9 March 2022

Back down the same old road

Knowing us, knowing Mark Stilton

8 March 2022

Scourge of the ball boys and John Fenty: next up it's the one and only, truly original Mark Stilton

All Right Now

Match report

6 March 2022

All Right Now

Knowing us, knowing Pete Green

1 March 2022

Come celebrate 20 years of Cod Almighty with a delve into Pete's mind

Lennie's Inferno

Match report

1 March 2022

Lennie's Inferno

Knowing us, knowing who - aha!

26 February 2022

We've come a long, long way together, through the hard times and the good. Come celebrate 20 years of Cod Almighty with a delve into the mind of fellow Mariners.

Slip Sliding Away

Match report

25 February 2022

Slip Sliding Away

Distorted: the Times's portrait of Town fans

21 February 2022

The Times's coverage of fans at Notts County was alarmist. Baz Whittleton argues the board should have checked the facts before responding

Towards an inclusive experience for disabled Town fans

17 February 2022

Grimsby's provision for disabled supporters has relied too much on volunteers. Dan Humphrey argues we need to bring our thinking up to date

Slipping the escort

Match report

13 February 2022

Slipping the escort

Point me at the sky

Match report

9 February 2022

Point me at the sky

Nuts in Notts

Match report

6 February 2022

Nuts in Notts

Match report

19 January 2022

Push button, pull Lever down

Match report

18 January 2022

Push button, pull Lever down

12 January 2022

Perhaps our badge should be sacrosanct, says Kieran Reader, but the many ways it has been reproduced mean that it is not

9 January 2022

Romarkable! Mr Tony Butcher isn't mesmerised by woolly thinking way out West in the land of the Shaymen

The badge

9 January 2022

Why tamper with a stone-cold classic of a badge, asks Paul Thundercliffe

The point-stealing tramps of Grimsby

Match report

9 January 2022

The point-stealing tramps of Grimsby

Haven't I seen this game before?

Match report

9 January 2022

Haven't I seen this game before?

An L of a Game

Match report

8 January 2022

An L of a Game

You are awful, but I like you

Match report

8 January 2022

You are awful, but I like you

Match report

27 December 2021

3 December 2021

It looks like a clash between a highly resistable force and a very movable object. Richard fills you in on the land of the Fords

The curious case of Jamille Matt

30 November 2021

His winning goal against Notts County was a rare highlight in Matt's Town career, but he has flourished since. Ron Counte wonders why

A rough guide to... Boreham Wood

25 November 2021

Boreham Wood, from the town of Borehamwood, home of a fancy pitch and the Elstree Studios. Tom Sargent offers our latest rough guide

Silent Night

Match report

24 November 2021

Silent Night

A rough guide to... Solihull Moors

23 November 2021

All eyes may be on Jamey Osborne against the Moors, Tom Sargent warns us to look out for the striker who never misses

News (that never happened) November 2021

22 November 2021

Having impressed at GTFC, Stockwood and Pettit have landed the top Christmas job in the latest News (that never happened)

Supper's ready

Match report

21 November 2021

Supper's ready

A rough guide to... Southend United

18 November 2021

Crazy chairmen, trains out at sea and journeymen footballers. Tom Sargent gives the lowdown on Southend

The mouse that roared

Match report

14 November 2021

The mouse that roared

A rough guide to...Aldershot Town

11 November 2021

Aldershot, it's a helluva town in a helluva mess again. Mr Tony Butcher sighs at the signs of rot in the home of army dreamers

Do Little and Dally

Match report

7 November 2021

Do Little and Dally

Rough guide to...Kidderminster

2 November 2021

Read this and win a bag of sausages! Tony Butcher peruses Kidderminster's latest tasting menu

Le Gazze Ladre

Match report

31 October 2021

Le Gazze Ladre

If I were King of Blundell Park

28 October 2021

Dreams of a perfect club, a perfect match, and a perfect Grimbarian day. Al Wilkinson imagines...

Youth cup run terminates at Crewe

27 August 2021

Jason Stockwood suggested this week that transfer fees will pay off John Fenty's loans. Tony Butcher brings us up to date on the club and Fenty's finances

A rough guide to... Weymouth

24 August 2021

They've got the most middle-class nickname in football and they've also got Ahkeem Rose. Rich Mills introduces you to Weymouth

Could you write the Cod Almighty Diary?

19 August 2021

Hoping for a change from diaries that bang on about Bestall, Boylen and Buckley? Here's your chance to be a voice for younger Town fans

I like my football on a Saturday

21 July 2021

Richard Hallam rarely misses a Town game, home or away. Who better then to comment on the recent fixture changes.

The Fenty Years: Part Four

13 July 2021

In Town's first two years in the Conference, John Fenty got into rows with fellow director Mike Parker and Boston United. Mark Stilton sifts the evidence

News (that never happened) - FENTY IN!

28 June 2021

What excuse will stayaway Town fans use now to keep gates below five thousand?

The world according to Baz: season tickets, Hurst and taking the knee

23 June 2021

Should season tickets be cheaper? Should Hurst have shouldered more blame? And should footballers take the knee? Baz Whittleton gives his views

1-0 (Disley)

15 June 2021

Craig Disley's retirement from playing offers a timely reminder of the qualities we'll need in the Conference

The Fenty Years: Part Three

9 June 2021

The crashing end to a bromance with Mike Newell as Town descend to non-League. Mark Stilton looks at 2008-2010 under John Fenty

The Fenty Years Part Three: financial supplement

8 June 2021

Who paid for John Fenty to take over Grimsby Town? Tony Butcher delves into the accounts and finds the answer is "not John Fenty"

Chronic Town: REM and the Mariners

1 June 2021

With titles like Chronic Town and Everybody Hurts, REM could only be Town fans. Rich Mills explores the Athens' rockers Grimbarian roots

The Fenty Years: Part Two

24 May 2021

A long-running spat with Radio Humberside and the illusion of progress on a new ground. Mark Stilton reviews the early years of John Fenty's Town chairmanship

The Fenty Years: Part One

18 May 2021

John Fenty spent six years positioning himself to take control of the club while all the time denying he wanted it. Mark Stilton describes the manoeuvres

No relegation means no relegation: the world according to Baz

13 May 2021

If promotion but not relegation is OK in the Conference, why not in the Football League? Baz argues for a one-season only expansion of the Football League

Waiting for the great leap forward

Match report

9 May 2021

Waiting for the great leap forward

We are Town: creating the future we deserve

6 May 2021

As the new chair of Grimsby Town, Jason Stockwood is coming home. He makes a request and a commitment to his fellow fans

Fenty goes: why now?

5 May 2021

There has been a question over John Fenty's tax affairs since he sold Five Star Fish in 2004. Tony considers if that could have led to him selling Grimsby Town

My time, my money

5 May 2021

Imagine being inside the head of John Fenty this cold May. That's what Al Wilkinson does in his latest poem

Do dead rubber cats bounce?

Match report

2 May 2021

Do dead rubber cats bounce?

The End

Match report

28 April 2021

The End

The impossible dream

Match report

25 April 2021

The impossible dream

I can hear the grass grow

Match report

21 April 2021

I can hear the grass grow

Match report

14 March 2021

For doom, the Pell trolls

Are we there yet?

Match report

Match report

24 February 2021

Catch the wind

The Thundercliffe Files: a five-point plan

18 February 2021

New owners offer Town the chance to rebuild its relationship for the benefit of supporters and the community. Paul identifies some priorities

Ron Rafferty: more valuable than all the Sputniks in Russia

16 February 2021

Ron Rafferty was the lynchpin of Grimsby's talented squad of the last 1950s and early 1960s. Neville Butt remembers his great career

Muck in the studs

Match report

7 February 2021

Muck in the studs

Club ownership: The world according to Baz

4 February 2021

There's a nightmare scenario: Fenty has all his money, but we have no ground, no cash and no-League status. Baz Whittleton views our prospects of avoiding it

10 January 2021

Our first season in the Conference was testing, especially for Chris Smith. Yet he drew strength from it

Burning down the house

Match report

10 January 2021

Burning down the house

Paul Hurst's Black and White Scouting Army

6 January 2021

Luke Pawley gives an insight into how Paul Hurst could develop a high-level scouting and recruitment department at GTFC if he receives the right support.

Sisyphus

Match report

9 December 2020

Sisyphus

Heads, hands and feet

Match report

6 December 2020

Heads, hands and feet

You're so lame

Match report

1 November 2020

You're so lame

Football: a spiritual experience

28 October 2020

The explosion of joy when celebrating a goal is the finest example of living in the moment. Chris Smith meditates on the game

The Hollow Way

Match report

28 October 2020

The Hollow Way

Weepers keepers

Match report

25 October 2020

Weepers keepers

The ballad of sporty Muldoon

Match report

21 October 2020

The ballad of sporty Muldoon

Whipped cream and other delights

Match report

18 October 2020

Whipped cream and other delights

Two ways to draw at Bolton

16 October 2020

Town's game at Bolton brought back memories for Rich Lord. Two very different games, but the same result, and the same away team manager

Harry Betmead: from centre half to centre back

13 October 2020

In the 1930s, Grimsby's Harry Betmead was one of the best players in his position in England. But, asks Gordon Wilson, was he a midfielder or defender

Following iFollow

15 September 2020

Your tips on watching a game using iFollow

A right of reply

11 September 2020

The EFL Trophy, communications, the club board, season tickets... Dave Roberts of the Mariners Trust responds to recent discussion points

Land of their fathers, mothers or grandparents

2 September 2020

Harry Clifton's latest under-21 call-up reminds us Town have three Wales qualified players. Dan Humphrey reflects

A time capsule

18 August 2020

A match programme from 1958 provides Ron Counte with a fascinating glimpse into the past

Look back in hope

29 July 2020

Grimsby Town have survived financial crises before. Gordon Wilson describes how Alderman Barrett led the Mariners out of debt and into a golden age

Dorothy Edwards: a life behind the scenes at Blundell Park

16 July 2020

In 1971, Dorothy Edwards became the first female Club Secretary in the Football League. Her daughter Avril Taylor remembers her time at GTFC

A history of Town kits: 2004-present

6 July 2020

A single manufacturer has seen Town through the few highs and many lows of the last decade. Paul Thundercliffe concludes his history of Grimsby kits

Nothing changes

1 June 2020

Copies of two wartime newspapers given to Janusz Przeniczny on the VE day anniversary had some interesting echoes

Champions! A delight

25 May 2020

Champions!, Rob McIlveen's book on 1979-80 takes you back in time to a season you long to relive, says Ron Counte

A history of Town kits: 1998-2003

17 May 2020

Those difficult Avec and GTS years... Paul Thundercliffe continues his history of Grimsby strips, taking in sponsorship by a fraudster

Out of the blue

11 May 2020

Getting picked for Bursar Street under-11s made school - the whole world - a less scary place. Lee Johnson remembers

A history of Town kits: 1990-97

4 May 2020

Remember when Town's stripes almost vanished? Paul Thundercliffe continues his history of Grimsby kits

Erratic, tetchy but somehow enjoyable: a first away game

27 April 2020

Leeds was the home of John Charles, the gentle giant. But there was nothing gentle about the game Neville Butt saw there in 1951

A history of Town kits: 1985-89

20 April 2020

Town had a few kits between 1984-89 - many used in an FA Cup tie with Arsenal. Paul Thundercliffe continues his history of the Grimsby strip

Reckless abandon

14 April 2020

Farce or frustration are inevitable when a game has to be stopped. But Neville Butt's memories suggest it often rebounds to Town's advantage

A history of Town kits: 1980-84

7 April 2020

Admiral, Adidas and Hobott designed some of Town's best kits, to dress one of Town's best teams. Paul Thundercliffe starts his history of the Grimsby strip

2019-20: players and fans deserve a fair finish

1 April 2020

Expunging results from the lower leagues is ill-thought out, clumsy and wrong. John England argues we all deserve a fairer finish to 2019-20

Self-isolation

30 March 2020

We are taking an enforced break from football. For Chris Smith, it isn't the first time, so he knows our love of the game will be all the stronger when it returns

The Thundercliffe Files: Jollification

27 March 2020

Michael Jolley's Town career summarised, to a soundtrack by the Lightning Seeds

The Thundercliffe Files: how to fill the Townhole

20 March 2020

Suddenly we all have a Townhole, but there are ways to fill it

The Thundercliffe Files: Marching season

12 March 2020

This end of season may be a dress rehearsal for next year, but promotion and a strong March go together hand in hand.

Chips with everything

Match report

8 March 2020

Chips with everything

The Thundercliffe Files: kicking off

6 March 2020

How effective is the 1pm kick-off for managing crowd behaviour?

John Fenty: a pattern of behaviour

2 March 2020

In February 2020, John Fenty said he would no longer in the day-to-day running of Grimsby Town. We took a look at his record

The Inferior Design Council

Match report

1 March 2020

The Inferior Design Council

The Thundercliffe Files: leaping around

28 February 2020

Leap years tend to be turning points in Town's fortunes. What might 2020 bring?

Exiles on Blame Street

Match report

26 February 2020

Exiles on Blame Street

The Thundercliffe Files: The Hollo-way

21 February 2020

Both our first and our most recent games in 2019-20 were wins over Morecambe. But they show how much has changed at Blundell Park

Stormy Weather

Match report

16 February 2020

Stormy Weather

The Thundercliffe Files: trebles all round

14 February 2020

Hat-tricks have been rare in the League. All the more reason to celebrate them

Charlie the Magnificent

Match report

Match report

29 January 2020

Turned over

The Thundercliffe Files: sitting room only?

24 January 2020

Both reserved and unreserved seating have flaws for away fans. Perhaps the solution is to reintroduce safe standing areas

A surfeit of nousery

Match report

19 January 2020

A surfeit of nousery

The Thundercliffe Files: down the hatch

17 January 2020

Paul Linwood is unapologetic about the drinking culture which sent Town into non-League but the hurt still rankles

Ian Holloway: a gust of fresh air

14 January 2020

Ian Holloway offers Grimsby Town a new dawn. The board had driven Jase Ives from Blundell Park, but now he is keen to see what the future holds

We're Grimsby and Aalst

Match report

12 January 2020

We're Grimsby and Aalst

The Thundercliffe Files: in exile

10 January 2020

Town's following at Orient will be swollen by London-based Mariners. The exile experience has changed over the decades but still proves our ties are rooted deep

Tickety-boo

Match report

5 January 2020

Tickety-boo

The Thundercliffe Files: Is the Hollo-way the right way?

3 January 2020

Ian Holloway is the first big name manager we have had since Lennie Lawrence, but he could be just what we need

Perfect Day

Match report

2 January 2020

Perfect Day

Cheese and onion

Match report

15 December 2019

In response to our post-election diary, Janusz Przeniczny lays the blame at the doors of Jeremy Corbyn, and Radio Humberside

The poverty of a dilapidated Blundell Park

15 December 2019

Meagre football in a neglected ground. Chris Smith can't forgive Grimsby Town for making personal anguish feel even worse

The Thundercliffe Files: a team of the 2010s

13 December 2019

We are back where we were in December 2009, but we have had some good players come and go through the decade

Blank generation

Match report

8 December 2019

Blank generation

The Thundercliffe Files: overcoming isolation

6 December 2019

Dover Athletic and even many top flight clubs have their training base many miles from their ground. Is it time Grimsby Town followed suit?

The Thundercliffe Files: the warning from a sagging gate

29 November 2019

Tuesday night's low attendance was a warning sign for a club that has failed to build on what it had

Limboland

Match report

27 November 2019

Limboland

What is to be done?

Match report

25 November 2019

What is to be done?

The Thundercliffe Files: Jolley departs

21 November 2019

Will it be a case of what might have been for Michael Jolley and GTFC?

The Brexit Party at Blundell Park: a statement

15 November 2019

In welcoming Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party to Blundell Park, Grimsby Town last night made hundreds of fans feel unwelcome

The Thundercliffe Files: respite, reset and restart

14 November 2019

Perhaps Town's enforced break is a chance for all of us - management, players and fans - to reset the season

The Never-ending Story

Match report

11 November 2019

The Never-ending Story

The Thundercliffe Files: FA Cup mud, sweat and tears

8 November 2019

We might not win the cup one day. But it still gives us great games and memorable goals

Cryptic Cod

6 November 2019

Some fanzines bring you acute football insights and inside information. We give you a Town-themed cryptic crossword

The Grim Reality October 2019: thin pickings

4 November 2019

Applying fantasy football scoring to the performances of Town players in October did not do too many of them any favours. Rich Lord reports

The Thundercliffe Files: the carcass trophy

1 November 2019

Two cup matches 40 years apart show how a once thriving Football League is now riddled with rheumatism

Town take on the Old Invincibles

29 October 2019

Town's second home game after World War Two was a top-flight clash with Preston North End. It was Neville Butt's first match and it set a pattern that would last a lifetime

Chairman of the bored

Match report

24 October 2019

Chairman of the bored

Decline and fail

Caustic custard

The Thundercliffe Files: what are Town trying to do?

20 September 2019

Nine games into the season, Paul Thundercliffe asks what are Jolley and Limbrick trying to get our players to do?

Don't believe the tripe

Match report

15 September 2019

Don't believe the tripe

London Calling

The Thundercliffe Files: Football is not a television programme

23 August 2019

Is iFollow a good way for exiles to keep in touch. Or, asks Paul Thundercliffe, is it the thin end of a wedge eroding attendances and revenues?

Ball and Chain

Match report

21 August 2019

Ball and Chain

No advantage: the English FA and the Berkessy affair

20 August 2019

In the 1950s, English football was in decline. But as Neville Butt recalls, still the FA believed they had nothing to learn from other countries

Where's the beef?

Match report

18 August 2019

Where's the beef?

The Thundercliffe Files: who would want football with VAR?

16 August 2019

Why would anyone think that VAR is good for the game, asks Paul Thundercliffe

Ready steady Cook

Match report

14 August 2019

Ready steady Cook

False dawn?

12 August 2019

In August 2018, after a draw against likely promotion contenders, hopes were high for the Mariners. But, says Ron Counte, there is no comparison between the side now and then

Let the people sing

Match report

11 August 2019

Let the people sing

The Thundercliffe Files: euphoria or functionality?

9 August 2019

If a player scores against their hometown club, what are they meant to do, asks Paul Thundercliffe

"Jubilation in Fishopolis": 1925-26 final part

6 August 2019

Promotion from Division Three (North) came down to the last day of the season: Grimsby had to win to take the title

Waiting for the day

Match report

5 August 2019

Waiting for the day

The Thundercliffe Files: Start as you mean to go on?

2 August 2019

Conventional wisdom says a good start is essential for a successful season. Paul Thundercliffe looks for the proof

Another kind of destructive behaviour

30 July 2019

Nick Dale's views undermine the efforts of other people to make fans feel welcome and engaged at Blundell Park, argues Kelly Billings

The Thundercliffe Files: New season, same game

26 July 2019

Football's heart beats without the need for corporate sponsors, writes Paul Thundercliffe. It exists despite Sky TV, rather than because of it

Football, friendship and fish and chips

25 July 2019

John England's tale of his friendship forged with Bill Dorricott through a shared love of the Mariners struck a chord with many of you

The life of a Mariner

22 July 2019

Two Town fans in the same Derbyshire village: a time-honoured ritual, great times and some great wins. John England remembers Bill Dorricott

"Vital engagements": 1925-26 part four

18 July 2019

Christmas in 1925 meant football on consecutive days. Grimsby played the league leaders, home and away

Fans of the Future: a small step into an exciting future

11 July 2019

Fans of the Future grew out of a small discussion among Town fans. But, writes Grant Maconachie, its ambitions are huge

Parklife revisited

3 June 2019

A half-brick goalpost turned lethal weapon; two and you're through; rolled-up in a foam-backed mat; and the slow death of a plastic ball. More summer holiday memories

Comeback kings

9 May 2019

Liverpool, Tottenham... and Grimsby Town. As Ron Counte recalls, we have our own history of turning the tables

Game changer: Grimsby's close-season needs

5 May 2019

Michael Jolley wants to bring Town into line with modern trends in football. Ron Counte considers how he must strengthen his squad

The Max factor

Match report

5 May 2019

The Max factor

Losing 5-0 was not the worst of it: Town's 1980 Anfield experience

2 May 2019

In 1980, Liverpool could claim to be the best team in the world. But Rob McIlveen remembers their treatment of Town fans was shameful

Edge of Tomorrow

Fenty's Six Game Rule

1 April 2019

A football manager is always six games from the what?

Oldham Slumbers

Match report

31 March 2019

Oldham Slumbers

Well, well, said the rocking chair

Match report

24 March 2019

Well, well, said the rocking chair

Schumpeter’s gale

Match report

17 March 2019

Schumpeter’s gale

Avoid the 70-minute void

I wasn't there: The day we hammered Huddersfield 2-2

15 February 2019

In 1997, a Mariners performance left a young Rich Lord unable to tear himself away from the radio, then unable to listen to it

Long tall weekend

Match report

3 February 2019

Long tall weekend

Whither the Chips?

31 January 2019

Who else got this cracking football annual for Christmas?

Just Seventeenth

Match report

30 December 2018

Out with the old

Atmosphere

Match report

27 December 2018

Atmosphere

Good day sunshine

Match report

23 December 2018

Good day sunshine

Reap the wild wind

Match report

16 December 2018

Reap the wild wind

Graceless

Match report

10 December 2018

Graceless

The year we touched the sky

9 December 2018

In 1983-84, Town achieved their best league position since dropping out of the top flight in 1948. Lee Johnson saw every game

How to beat a rotten egg

Match report

11 November 2018

How to beat a rotten egg

A hero and the price he paid: Matt Tees and dementia

8 November 2018

Matt Tees made a generation of fans fall in love with Grimsby Town, but at a price. Ron Counte remembers

Wilted spinach: Mansfield (a) report

Match report

7 November 2018

Wilted spinach: Mansfield (a) report

The charge of the lightweight brigade

Match report

4 November 2018

The charge of the lightweight brigade

Deflated but defiant

Match report

29 October 2018

Deflated but defiant

Brian Hill: wonderful wing-raider

29 October 2018

In the 1960s, Grimsby enjoyed the services of a winger who could torment England internationals. Gordon Wilson remembers Brian Hill

The shape of things to come

Match report

24 October 2018

The shape of things to come

James and the giant reach

Match report

21 October 2018

James and the giant reach

Here comes the sun

Match report

7 October 2018

Here comes the sun

A Tommy of the Town digest

4 October 2018

There's more Tommy on the way so why not remind yourselves what your heroes got up to last season

A long way to go

Match report

3 October 2018

A long way to go

Have you got it yet?

Match report

30 September 2018

Have you got it yet?

No highway robbery

Match report

24 September 2018

No highway robbery

Great Scott!

18 September 2018

Andy Freeman's two-parter on the career of Johnny Scott inspired Cod Almighty's readers to draw on their memories of the great man

The return of the Hollow Men

Match report

17 September 2018

The return of the Hollow Men

Beat them on the bottom with a Woman's Weekly: Bury (a) report

Match report

9 September 2018

Beat them on the bottom with a Woman's Weekly: Bury (a) report

One man and his clog

Match report

3 September 2018

One man and his clog

"A game of thrills": 1925-26 part two

1 September 2018

Jimmy Carmichael's goals have put Town second in the northern section table. A win over league leaders Rochdale will take them top...

"Young men of promise": 1925-26 part one

1 September 2018

Early in the 1925-26 season Grimsby Town started to turn around two decades of decline. Pat Bell imagines the first game of a pivotal season

The Grudge

Match report

18 August 2018

The Grudge

Hill's angles

Match report

15 August 2018

Hill's angles

Outside the wall

Match report

13 August 2018

Outside the wall

Ghosts in the machine

The blame game

15 May 2018

Two years after regaining our place in the Football League, why was it so nearly lost again? Ron Counte considers who is to blame

We've only just begun

Match report

7 May 2018

We've only just begun

Enter Jolley and enter hope

30 April 2018

The win again Notts County confirms Town's transformation under Michael Jolley. Ian Jackson, and his eight-year-old son, are grateful.

The safety dance

Match report

Match report

3 April 2018

Life in one day

Can't buy a thrill

Match report

1 April 2018

Can't buy a thrill

GTFC Question Time: Q1 - can the Mariners stay up?

29 March 2018

We asked a panel of Mariners fans, journalists and ex players "can Town stay up, and how will Michael Jolley manage it?"

Ghost Town

Match report

25 March 2018

Ghost Town

Time and the Coventrys

22 March 2018

Coventry City illustrate how football has changed since 1973, when Ron Counte went there to his first away game

Footprint in the snow

19 March 2018

"A sad poem for a sad weekend". Al Wilkinson laments

Tommy of the Town: Episode 17

18 March 2018

A bomb floating in the Humber? An old WW2 mine or could it be something more sinister?

Terminal velocity

Match report

18 March 2018

Terminal velocity

Steady progress: Hurst's lesson for Town fans

16 March 2018

As Town get used to a third new manager since he left, Ian Jackson says there are lessons to learn from Paul Hurst's tenure

Needle in a haystack

Match report

11 March 2018

Needle in a haystack

Four managers, two seasons, one final chance

9 March 2018

Michael Jolley has inherited a mess created by a two-year churn of players and tactics. Adam McMillan asks if he can pull the Mariners back in the right direction

Tommy of the Town: Episode 16

8 March 2018

A Tommy Target fan club? You've spoken and we've listened... well, sort of

No disguise

Match report

7 March 2018

No disguise

The future must be youth

27 February 2018

The Youth Development Association can help bring a new ethos to Grimsby Town. Dave Roberts explains

Just a minute

Match report

25 February 2018

Just a minute

Tommy of the Town: Episode 15

25 February 2018

With Gary Gaffer gone, the Town board are looking for a new manager

A Cambridge too far

19 February 2018

Not 'pass and go' but 'pass and don't know'. Ron Counte is alarmed by Town's showing at Cambridge

Prayer for the dying

Match report

18 February 2018

Prayer for the dying

Steve Plowes: a tribute

15 February 2018

SWWF readers and contributors share their memories of its prolific editor Steve Plowes

Russell's last stand

Match report

14 February 2018

Russell's last stand

Tommy of the Town: Episode 12

12 February 2018

In the latest instalment of Tommy of the Town, young pro Danny Southill wonders how to get a start for the first team

To the barricades

Match report

4 February 2018

To the barricades

The beginning of the end?

Match report

31 January 2018

The beginning of the end?

Time to go

31 January 2018

If John Fenty is the fan he claims, he must now admit the damage he has done and walk away, says Jase Ives

The cod delusion

Match report

10 December 2017

A question of retribution

If the supporters are united

8 December 2017

Grimsby Town FC works better if its fans are engaged. Mariners Trust chair Paul Savage explains how GTFC Unity Day is a step towards making that happen

Tommy of the Town: Episode 7

1 December 2017

In the latest instalment of Tommy of the Town, manager Gary Gaffer is feeling under pressure...

Tommy of the Town: Episode 8

1 December 2017

Manager Gary Gaffer faces the press about a striker who is yet to play for the club despite signing a year ago

Bicycle race

Match report

27 November 2017

Bicycle race

The Official Unofficial GTFC Calendar 2018

23 November 2017

GTFC's last player calendar became pointless when the players were all released... so we've found the perfect solution

The carrier

22 November 2017

Is supporting the Mariners contagious? Ron Counte suspects he is the living proof

Knock three times

Match report

22 November 2017

Knock three times

Tommy of the Town: Episode 6

21 November 2017

In the latest Tommy of the Town, our hero faces up to the yobbish element of Town's support

Knock, knock, who's there?

Match report

19 November 2017

Knock, knock, who's there?

Tommy of the Town: Episode 9.5

17 November 2017

Membership of pressure groups threatens the very game itself. Watch John Nunty get to grips with this very real problem

No Surprises, Russ's budget jaffas fire blanks again.

Match report

12 November 2017

No Surprises, Russ's budget jaffas fire blanks again.

Now that's over we can concentrate on the League

Match report

5 November 2017

Now that's over we can concentrate on the League

Do Eccentric Sheep Dream of Grimsby Town?

Match report

29 October 2017

Do Eccentric Sheep Dream of Grimsby Town?

Fish, football, but no Grimsby?

26 October 2017

You can't have a display about fish and football without mentioning Grimsby, right? That's what David Martin thought

Tommy of the Town: Episode 4

26 October 2017

In today's Tommy of the Town, chairman John Nunty returns from his hols and everyone wants to know what's happening

Tommy of the Town: Episode 2

20 October 2017

Heartache for the fans as Shaun Prawn stalls on a new deal..

Rees, love and understanding

19 October 2017

Before we hurl abuse, Chris Fisher says, we should remember that footballers are people, modestly plying their trade. Even Harry Pell

A cracking night it was

Match report

18 October 2017

A cracking night it was

The lowest of the low

17 October 2017

Blundell Park must look up to every other ground in the League. Ron Counte explains why

Strife in a northern town

Match report

15 October 2017

Strife in a northern town

Tommy of the Town: Episode 5

14 October 2017

In the latest instalment of Tommy of the Town, say hello to highly rated young winger Sneaky Tenbellies

Our mutual friends

Match report

8 October 2017

Our mutual friends

Tommy of the Town: Episode 3

6 October 2017

Some actual football as Town take on rivals Village Green Rovers

Tommy of the Town: Episode 1

2 October 2017

In the first of the new Tommy of the Town comic strip, chairman John Nunty ponders new signings

Tommy of the Town: Episode 2.5

2 October 2017

In the latest episode of Tommy of the Town, Tommy is called in for a showdown meeting with the chairman!

Journey to a bore

Match report

1 October 2017

Journey to a bore

Play Misty for Me

Match report

28 September 2017

Play Misty for Me

A rough guide to... Lincoln City

28 September 2017

They followed us down, and they've followed us back up again. Tony Butcher offers the lowdown on Lincoln City

Right place, right time: following Town in the late 1980s

20 September 2017

Mates' tales, indulgent parents and a sport-mad teacher... Bruce Fenwick arrived at the start of a golden era

Mr Gloverman (Shabby)

Match report

18 September 2017

Mr Gloverman (Shabby)

The keeper and the corpse

Match report

11 September 2017

The keeper and the corpse

Mariners life is rubbish

Match report

20 August 2017

Mariners life is rubbish

What if... John Newman had acted like a modern manager?

15 August 2017

A new manager must always bring in his own players, yes? It wasn't always like that, Pat Bell suggests

Sladeballers

Match report

14 August 2017

Sladeballers

A rough guide to... Swindon Town

10 August 2017

Whatever the Mariners have done, Swindon have been there and bought the T-shirt. Barry Whittleton explains

Behind the lines: an alternative view of the Chesterfield game

8 August 2017

Never watch an away game with the home fans? John England not only lived to tell the tale: he enjoyed it

On the mauve

Match report

6 August 2017

On the mauve

A rough guide to... Port Vale

4 August 2017

The revolving doors are supercharged at Vale Park. Miles Moss tries to catch up with who is still there

Seasons in the sun

3 August 2017

When you started watching shapes your expectations of the Mariners' league status. Ron Counte explains

A rough guide to... Forest Green Rovers

31 July 2017

After successive play-off failures, the rich club from a small place is finally in the Football League. Richard Hallam looks them over.

An open letter to the Mariners Trust

28 July 2017

The Mariners Trust want input on their future direction. Here are Trust member Richard Hallam's thoughts

A rough guide to... Chesterfield

27 July 2017

Town's season kicks off away to Chesterfield and the pies are damn good

The Blundelles: a female perspective on the beautiful game

20 July 2017

There's a new voice among Town fans online. And it aims to encourage women to express themselves about the club

A rough guide to... Coventry City

18 July 2017

They were the Stoke City of the early Premiership years, and now they're playing us in the fourth division. Tony Butcher gets close up on the Sky Blues

We are not Worthy

5 July 2017

Encounters with your Mariners heroes don't always go how you would like, or expect. Ron Counte shares his embarrassments

Good night, sweet Hurst

6 June 2017

Six months on from his departure, we are now ready to appraise Paul Hurst on his merits. Ron Counte reflects

The night the crowd changed ends

30 May 2017

A 5-2 win should stick in the mind, and it does. But not because of the goals. Ron Counte remembers a strange night at Spotland

What if... Laws and Bonetti were friends

18 May 2017

You'll find it hard to believe, but Brian Laws and Ivano Bonetti once nearly fell out. Ron Counte tells all

The major shareholder's lament

12 May 2017

"I was never chairman of the company, as far as I knew". Antony Chapman updates DB Wyndham Lewis

"It didn't have to be perfect": Podge's Braintree penalty

8 May 2017

When he prepared to take a penalty at Braintree, a whole season rested on his shoulders. But Pádraig Amond knew he'd score

This one's for now

Match report

6 May 2017

This one's for now

What if... Amond's penalty had been saved?

3 May 2017

Had the Braintree keeper remained on his feet, Lincolnshire football might look very different today, says Ron Counte

We've come to spoil our party

Match report

3 May 2017

We've come to spoil our party

Easy Glovers

Match report

Bring me rainfall

Noises off

Match report

20 February 2017

Noises off

We plough the fields and scatter

Match report

15 February 2017

We plough the fields and scatter

Setting sail in a sieve

Match report

12 February 2017

Setting sail in a sieve

Of mice and monkeys

9 February 2017

With players, formations and tactics all in flux, Al Wilkinson turns to rhyme to try and make sense of the transformation

Only connect

Match report

6 February 2017

Only connect

Blamespotting 2

Match report

30 January 2017

Blamespotting 2

Disharmony: less twitter, more squawk

29 January 2017

A twitter storm is the inevitable outcome of a Town defeat. Can't we use social media more positively, asks Chris Fisher

Chemistry

Match report

23 January 2017

Chemistry

You don't know you're born, Jürgen

19 January 2017

Do we need a Christmas break or are fixtures over the festive period just a part of football culture in the UK?

Graham Taylor: Lincolnshire's finest

17 January 2017

Despite his harsh treatment as England manager, Taylor deserved national respect. Barry Whittleton remembers a fine football man

Crashing bores

Match report

16 January 2017

Crashing bores

Song sung blue

12 January 2017

Big wins away carried a health warning in 1984. Tony Barker describes a perilous walk to the car after Paul Wilkinson's Goodison winner

Merrily we dance

Match report

9 January 2017

Merrily we dance

Away from home

3 January 2017

The links between Aberystwyth (and a few other places) and Cleethorpes explored in this archive article from Pat Bell

The right Town turn up

Match report

3 January 2017

The right Town turn up

Regarding ennui

Match report

1 January 2017

Regarding ennui

How's Omar doing? part deux

29 December 2016

Halfway through the season, how does Bogle's goalscoring compare with past top strikers? Rich Mills draws some more charts

There won't be snow in Accrington this Christmastime

Match report

28 December 2016

There won't be snow in Accrington this Christmastime

"Hursty? Yer cant help but say he did a job"

27 December 2016

Not just a trim, a summary of Paul Hurst's Town career. Andy Freeman visits his barber

Can kids win anything?

20 December 2016

What can Town do to improve the progression of young players into the first team, asks Rich Mills

A vanilla fudge

Match report

18 December 2016

A vanilla fudge

From on high

12 December 2016

Will any new ground offer the distractions from a poor game on offer in the upper tier of the Findus, asks Tony Barker

C'est la vie

Match report

11 December 2016

C'est la vie

A Blundell Park birthday

5 December 2016

In 2001, Portsmouth made sure Andy Freeman had an enjoyable, if cold, birthday treat

Can you hear the Grimsby sing?

30 November 2016

On 9 December, the Mariners Trust will be staging a unique celebration of the Mariners. Gordon Wilson offers a preview

Fifteen shades of grey

Match report

28 November 2016

Fifteen shades of grey

Twisting the night away

Match report

24 November 2016

Twisting the night away

Not the Parslow Point

Match report

Match report

9 October 2016

Exeter City 0 Grimsby Town 0

Old friends and new acquaintances

6 October 2016

Harrogate Town v FC United was a match with several Grimsby links. Grant Maconachie went to meet Macca and the rest

Nothing to see here

Match report

19 September 2016

Nothing to see here

Only shades of grey

Match report

11 September 2016

Only shades of grey

My Grimsby: not just any old northern town

11 September 2016

A new addition to our 'what makes Grimsby special' feature: waiting at the lock gates for dad's boat

If the kids are United XI

5 September 2016

Man Utd's Dean Henderson has become the latest in a select band of Red Mariners. Rich Mills compiles a team

Tied up in Notts

Match report

5 September 2016

Tied up in Notts

Brushed under the carpet: a closer look at Garth Lane

30 August 2016

Garth Lane offers a glorious possibility for a new ground - so why do the club and consultants refuse to look at it?

Not too bad, all things considered

Match report

29 August 2016

Not too bad, all things considered

Match report

31 July 2016

Grimsby 2 Oldham Athletic 1

Grimsby 1 Sheffield United 3

Match report

25 July 2016

Grimsby 1 Sheffield United 3

Who is number 1?

Match report

13 July 2016

Who is number 1?

The life and soul

30 June 2016

Tony Barker pays a funny, affectionate tribute to a proper Grimsby character: his dad Harry

Wrestling with pigs

22 June 2016

Toto Nsiala is far from the first Town player to leave the club after abuse from fans. Peter Anderson weighs up rights and responsibilities

A man out of a Moulson

20 June 2016

In the late 60s, a Grimsby legend took a hand in the footballing education of his young neighbour

An open letter from Against League 3 to GTFC fans

15 June 2016

So what next in the campaign against B teams in the Trophy? We asked the chaps at Against League 3

B teams: supporters must say no

13 June 2016

Despite fan opposition, the Football League is still trying to fit Premier League B teams into its competitions. We must resist

Uncomfortably young: "This town, you daft twat"

7 June 2016

Kicking a ball into a policeman's garden can be educational. Rob McIlveen remembers how he first heard about Grimsby Town

Lawrie McMenemy: A Lifetime's Obsession

3 June 2016

Ex-Town manager Lawrie McMenemy has a book out. Bill Brewster remembers what made him a legend

Just the way you are

29 May 2016

A Billy Joel song chimes with Grant Maconachie's hopes and fears for Leicester City, and Grimsby Town

We're on our way: Meeky's promotion poem

23 May 2016

Town's return to the Football League has moved Steve Meek to light-hearted comic verse

A waste of time

Match report

23 May 2016

A waste of time

Being Nemo: the misfortune of the exiled junior Mariner

18 May 2016

For the children of exiled Mariners, Town's play-off final win was the day they finally did understand

We're comin' home

Match report

17 May 2016

We're comin' home

A lifetime of passion

14 May 2016

As Town prepare for another Wembley play-off final, Sarah Mann-Needs has a particularly good reason to dream of victory

18 March 2016

Grimsby, Gateshead, Dundee United and Atletico Madrid. Tony Dabb explains the baleful link

Merely this and nothing more

Match report

16 March 2016

Merely this and nothing more

What have we done to deserve this?

Match report

14 March 2016

What have we done to deserve this?

Dandies on parade

Match report

10 March 2016

Dandies on parade

Big

Match report

6 March 2016

Big

Play-off tickets: giving fans the bird

3 March 2016

Ticketing arrangements for the play-off final have been announced and once again nobody has considered the fans

House of cards

Match report

29 February 2016

House of cards

The show must go on

Match report

25 February 2016

The show must go on

Hairy panic

Match report

21 February 2016

Hairy panic

One-hit wonders: the prequel

18 February 2016

Playing for Town once and once only is nothing new. Neville Butt takes the story back in time.

The day the mood music died

Match report

15 February 2016

The day the mood music died

We're in the mood for dancing

Match report

10 February 2016

We're in the mood for dancing

Dearth, wind and dire

Match report

8 February 2016

Dearth, wind and dire

The one-hit wonders

3 February 2016

Blink and you'll miss 'em: the Town players who pulled on the jersey one time only

The grateful gate

Match report

1 February 2016

The grateful gate

Take it easy

Match report

24 January 2016

Take it easy

Sound and vision

Match report

17 January 2016

Sound and vision

Fox, Murdoch and Man Utd

16 January 2016

Is global media tyrant Rupert Murdoch trying again to get hold of Man Utd? Why should we care?

Why the FA Trophy matters

14 January 2016

We are a non-League team. So we should take the FA Trophy seriously, argues Rich Mills

All's well that ends well

Match report

10 January 2016

All's well that ends well

The non-chairman's non-new year message

5 January 2016

You may have read John Fenty's new year's message to fans... but did you see the first draft?

The circle game

Match report

3 January 2016

The circle game

The house of girth

Match report

29 December 2015

The house of girth

The Main Stand: Town's living history

21 December 2015

To watch Town from the Main Stand is to feel the press of history. Andy Freeman records the scene

The man with icy eyes

Match report

20 December 2015

The man with icy eyes

Beaten but unbowed

Match report

Match report

Match report

19 October 2015

Call off the search

We told you so

Match report

15 October 2015

We told you so

9 August 2015

Stop messin' about

We go again... and again

5 August 2015

Pre-season is always a time for optimism. Steve Bierley asks if this season it is on a firmer footing for the Mariners

How we planned Operation Promotion

5 June 2015

Ace GTFC blogger Too Good To Go Down gives a glimpse behind the scenes of the fans' epic fundraising push

Town on the box: El Final

20 May 2015

While 13,000 of us were chanting "FISH!", Rufus Murphy was on holiday in Andalucia... but did he manage to escape the play-off final?

What's another year?

Match report

18 May 2015

What's another year?

Beautiful losers: Leonard Cohen and the Mariners

19 November 2014

Leonard Cohen. Grimsby Town. Not much in common, you might think. Pat Bell disagrees

Smoke on the water

Match report

16 November 2014

Smoke on the water

Night moves

Match report

12 November 2014

Night moves

Town and frown

Match report

10 November 2014

Town and frown

The grey men

Match report

2 November 2014

The grey men

Arrested development

28 October 2014

Could the Mariners learn a lesson from the past in giving young players more opportunities to improve? Peter Anderson thinks so

Theme Team: useless but popular

26 October 2014

Find out who made our Useless but Popular XI, then make your nominations for a 'Could have been a contender' team

Wrapping Paper

Match report

26 October 2014

Wrapping Paper

"A lot of bother": the Lincolnshire Cup in 1886

12 October 2014

The first county cup meeting between Grimsby Town and Lincoln City reveals a rivalry almost 130 years old

Fluid in Clwyd

Match report

12 October 2014

Fluid in Clwyd

The road to nowhere

4 October 2014

As another mediocre season looms, Pat Bell traces the sequence of mishaps and blunders that got Town into this mess

Evidently Grimsby Town

Match report

2 October 2014

Evidently Grimsby Town

Dire beyond straits

2 October 2014

As an experienced sports journalist Steve Bierley has seen a lot. As a long-suffering Grimsby Town fan, he's seen enough

Purple reign

Match report

29 September 2014

Purple reign

31 August 2014

Tom Daley's debut in a Lincolnshire derby described in Neville Butt's colourful article on Town keepers of the 1950s

Theme Team: a physical phenomena XI

27 August 2014

We asked you to name a Grimsby team of peculiar physiques, representing humanity in all shapes and sizes. This is the result

Nothing can go wrong now

Match report

27 August 2014

Nothing can go wrong now

It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it

Match report

18 August 2014

It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it

In the pink

Match report

13 August 2014

In the pink

Grounds for concern

13 June 2014

John Fenty has claimed only lack of political support has prevented Town relocating. This 2014 article examines the obstacles

How Grimsby was my valley

23 May 2014

From Pat Glover to John Oster, Wales has provided many of Town's greatest ever players. Pat Bell picks a Welsh Mariners XI to prove it

Pin the fig leaf on the donkey

Match report

7 May 2014

Pin the fig leaf on the donkey

Night Fever

Match report

2 May 2014

Night Fever

A Hyding to nothing

Match report

28 April 2014

A Hyding to nothing

Meat pies 'ave come but band's not 'ere yet

Match report

21 April 2014

Meat pies 'ave come but band's not 'ere yet

Match report

9 February 2014

Le cul de vache

The making of Pass and Move: part 1

3 February 2014

How did a Town-mad local teacher and fanzine scribe get the gig ghost-writing Alan Buckley's autobiography? Paul Thundercliffe spills the beans

The sighing of four

Match report

2 February 2014

The sighing of four

Checkmate

Match report

30 January 2014

Checkmate

The Idiot

Match report

20 January 2014

The Idiot

4-4-2

Match report

25 September 2013

4-4-2

Stuck

23 September 2013

The Bard of Blundell Park, Alistair Wilkinson, has seen enough of the "yellow-booted amateurs" who personify Town's decline

Once upon a time in the West

Match report

23 September 2013

Once upon a time in the West

The trial

Match report

19 September 2013

The trial

24 July 2013

Town's England no.1 George Tweedy proved a tough act to follow. Neville Butt remembers his hapless successors

Broadley FC: an introduction

5 July 2013

The new team set up in memory of a departed Town fan kicks off for the first time in 2013-14. Club founder Matt Newton explains

Kevin Moore: how best to remember

13 May 2013

In a touching Kevin Moore tribute, Rob McIlveen recalls how a talented schoolmate became a Mariners legend - and offers to fund a memorial trophy

Match report

16 February 2013

Lincolnshire sausages

4 December 2012

Among Town fans he'll only be remembered for one thing. But how does Brian Laws' autobiography balance out? Pat Bell gives it a read

What do you think of it so far? Buxton (h)

Match report

24 November 2012

What do you think of it so far? Buxton (h) report

Braintree salad surgery: Braintree (h)

Match report

17 November 2012

Braintree salad surgery: Braintree (h) report

Muffins and mules: Hyde (a)

Match report

6 November 2012

Muffins and mules: Hyde (a) report

The keys of the kingdom: Macclesfield (h)

Match report

27 October 2012

The keys of the kingdom: Macclesfield (h) report

A late flourish

23 October 2012

Town's youth side reached the first round proper of the FA Youth Cup with a 4-0 win at Vauxhall Motors. Mike Worden reports.

Video nicey

17 October 2012

In 1994 part-time Kidderminster Harriers reached the fifth round of the FA Cup. Rich Lord has the VHS tape to prove it

Scream Thy Last Scream: Nuneaton (h)

Match report

18 August 2012

Scream Thy Last Scream: Nuneaton (h)

The Road to Southport Pier: Southport (a)

Match report

11 August 2012

The Road to Southport Pier: Southport (a) report

It all begins here

9 August 2012

A look back at opening-day encounters down the years and what they can tell us about the season ahead

Bluebirds and dragons

20 July 2012

Ben Dudley is a Cardiff supporter who is auctioning the support of his club. Rich Mills investigates why

The perils of post-season support

11 July 2012

Close the curtains, fire up Footy Manager and listen to Three Lions on repeat. How else can Matt Coombs make it through the close season?

Surging out of convalescence: Hornchurch (h)

Match report

14 January 2012

Surging out of convalescence: Hornchurch (h) report

Graham 'Basil' Rathbone: your memories

10 January 2012

Share in the memories of other supporters, and contribute your own

Better than the Olympics: Cambridge (a)

Match report

10 January 2012

Better than the Olympics: Cambridge (a) report

Playing bingoball in another land: Alfreton (a)

Match report

7 January 2012

Playing bingoball in another land: Alfreton (a) report

Match report

12 November 2011

A cup of kindness: Port Vale (a) report

Slow recovery: the lessons of Town's 1988-89 FA Cup adventure

9 November 2011

A good cup run can be at the heart of a club's revival. Pat Bell remembers 1988-89

The coalminers' slaughter: Ashington (h)

Match report

29 October 2011

The coalminers' slaughter: Ashington (h) report

Contagion: Luton (h)

Match report

21 October 2011

Contagion: Luton (h) report

An education: York (a)

Match report

15 October 2011

An education: York (a) report

10 August 2011

2011-12 rough guide to Stockport County

Rough guide to... Lincoln City

8 August 2011

2010-11 Rough guide to Lincoln City

Distance learning

5 August 2011

Discovering the pain of the exiled fan, Matt Coombs shares his experiences of supporting Grimsby from north Wales

Rough guide to... Ebbsfleet

4 August 2011

2010-11 Rough guide to Ebbsfleet

Rough Guide to... Alfreton Town

31 July 2011

2011-12 Rough Guide to... Alfreton Town

Full circle: Wimbledon (a)

Match report

30 April 2011

Full circle: Wimbledon (a) report

Please release me: Altrincham (h)

Match report

5 March 2011

Gimme some truth: Wimbledon (h) report

Playing to the crowd

24 February 2011

In the wake of Neil Woods' sacking, Pat Bell accuses the chairman of bowing to the boo-boys

Match report

8 January 2011

Stuck in the middle with you: Wrexham (a) report

A very happy New Year indeed

6 January 2011

After Town's spectacular start to 2011 Al Wilkinson considers whether there's now a realistic chance of promotion

Book review: Drinks All Round

5 January 2011

On occasion at CA Towers we get a spare moment to read a book. Even less occasionally we get time to write about it

More pictures at an exhibition: Histon (a)

Match report

3 January 2011

More pictures at an exhibition: Histon (a) report

GT Confidential: Mansfield (h)

Match report

1 January 2011

GT Confidential: Mansfield (h) report

Training day: Redditch (h)

Match report

11 December 2010

Training day: Redditch (h) report

We're not all in this together

5 December 2010

John Fenty says he feels our pain but Al Wilkinson feels patronised and belittled by the chairman's efforts at slumming it

Grimsby's best-kept secret

2 December 2010

Arthur Drewry was my pen-pal: letters to a young Town fan, from the GTFC man who led FIFA

Moribund, the burgermeister: Barrow (h)

Match report

20 November 2010

Moribund, the burgermeister: Barrow (h) report

Book review: Grimsby Town: Through the Trap Door

14 November 2010

On occasion at CA Towers we get a spare moment to read a book. Even less occasionally we get time to write about it

Punting by the Cam: Cambridge (a)

Match report

9 November 2010

Punting by the Cam: Cambridge (a) report

All that glitters

4 November 2010

Cup competitions: a chance for glory or an excuse to miss a game? Al Wilkinson keeps his 15 quid in his pocket

Groundhog games: Eastbourne (h)

Match report

Match report

25 September 2010

Bonfire of Woods' vanities: Altrincham (a) report

Future games and bare trees: Fleetwood (h)

Match report

18 September 2010

Future games and bare trees: Fleetwood (h) report

Player profile: Kenny Arthur

15 September 2010

2010-11 player profile: Kenny Arthur

The legend of the Tamworth Two: Tamworth (a)

Match report

11 September 2010

The legend of the Tamworth Two: Tamworth (a) report

Almost away

7 September 2010

It's Al Wilkinson again, on two home wins with two contrasting performances against Histon and Luton

What did you expect?

7 September 2010

Fans are downgrading their hopes and dreams after some woeful home performances. Al Wilkinson joins them in a rueful mood

Musclebound: Luton (h)

Match report

4 September 2010

Musclebound: Luton (h) report

Fans, fantasies and febrile frustrations

30 August 2010

A philosophical look at Town's mixed start to the season from that man Al Wilkinson

Dr Pangloss comes to Town: Histon (h)

Match report

30 August 2010

Dr Pangloss comes to Town: Histon (h) report

Player profile: Josh Fuller

29 August 2010

2010-11 player profile: Josh Fuller

Drip... drip... drip... drip...: Rushden & Diamonds (a)

Match report

28 August 2010

Drip... drip... drip... drip...: Rushden & Diamonds (a) report

Rough Guide to... Tamworth

27 August 2010

2010-11 Rough Guide to Tamworth

Player profile: Michael Leary

27 August 2010

2010-11 player profile: Michael Leary

The one that almost got away

23 August 2010

A cruel twist of fate saw Al Wilkinson consigned to a 16th year as a season ticket holder. And he thought his luck had changed

The suckers punched: Hayes & Yeading (h)

Match report

21 August 2010

The suckers punched: Hayes & Yeading (h) report

As you like it: York (h)

Match report

17 August 2010

As you like it: York (h) report

Player profile: Mark Gray

15 August 2010

2010-11 player profile: Mark Gray

Player profile: Lee Peacock

15 August 2010

2010-11 player profile: Lee Peacock

You're not alone: Crawley (a)

A decade of decline

18 May 2010

How did we find ourselves here? Sam Kinnaird unpicks ten years of failure

The carnival is over: Burton (a)

Match report

8 May 2010

The carnival is over: Burton (a) report

4 March 2010

A tribute to Grimsby legend Keith Alexander, by Sam Metcalf

Hands up: Macclesfield (h)

Match report

23 February 2010

Hands up: Macclesfield (h) report

An arm and a leg: Lincoln (h)

Match report

20 February 2010

An arm and a leg: Lincoln (h) report

Brass monkeys

19 January 2010

2009-10 player profile: Nathan Jarman

And the band played on: Cheltenham (h)

Match report

The clangers: Port Vale (h)

Match report

Grimsbytown ride: Dagenham (h)

Match report

5 December 2009

Grimsbytown ride: Dagenham (h) report

Is white the new black?

1 December 2009

New Zealand football is on the up

Glass half empty: Macclesfield (a)

Match report

11 August 2009

Si Wilson shows us how he follows Town matches

Not Man and Boy: You couldn't make it up

11 August 2009

Al Wilkinson tries in vain to get his children interested in football

Silk purses and sow's ears: Cheltenham (a)

Match report

8 August 2009

Silk purses and sow's ears: Cheltenham (a) report

The chequered history of 'foreign' players at Grimsby: 2

10 June 2009

Part two of Pat Bell's look at how foreign players have ultimately failed, for one reason or another, at Grimsby part 2

Not just there to add to the numbers

12 May 2009

More can be done to get the crowds back to BP, with or without a crisis, argues James Parrott

Match report

28 March 2009

Rainbows: Aldershot (h) report

1 October 2008

Lee Bradley thinks John Fenty is trying to do the right things, in difficult times

Evans forbid!

1 October 2008

Boston fan Pete Brooksbank tells us not to worry about Steve Evans. He won't be the new Grimsby boss. Ever

Not in our name, Fenty: Barnet (h)

Match report

27 September 2008

Not in our name, Fenty: Barnet (h) report

Disco Stu doesn't advertise: Morecambe (a)

Match report

20 September 2008

Disco Stu doesn't advertise: Morecambe (a) report

Remembering the good times: the best of Alan Buckley

16 September 2008

Your tributes to Alan Buckley

The candidates for the BP hotseat - assessed

16 September 2008

We give you the run-down on the favourites for the vacancy of manager at Blundell Park

Buckley sacking - Cod Almighty's official statement

15 September 2008

Buckley sacking - Cod Almighty's official statement

Travesty: Chester (h)

Match report

13 September 2008

Travesty: Chester (h) report

The rest is history

10 September 2008

In 2008 we read Wikipedia's list of "notable former players" for GTFC. Why was Nicky Rizzo on it?

The Devil went down to Gillingham: Gillingham (a)

Match report

6 September 2008

The Devil went down to Gillingham: Gillingham (a) report

A taste of honey: Lincoln (a)

Match report

30 August 2008

A taste of honey: Lincoln (a) report

Why should we pay for an incorrect text message?

30 August 2008

The text service offered by the club leaves a lot to be desired, says Tony Rogers

Counting cobwebs: Chesterfield (h)

Match report

24 August 2008

Counting cobwebs: Chesterfield (h) report

From both sides now: Brentford (a)

Match report

16 August 2008

From both sides now: Brentford (a) report

Humming the Rock Ferry Blues: Tranmere (h)

Match report

12 August 2008

Humming the Rock Ferry Blues: Tranmere (h) report

Safe as houses: Rochdale (h)

Match report

9 August 2008

Safe as houses: Rochdale (h) report

Not Man and Boy: Blundell Park is better than the telly

5 August 2008

Al Wilkinson tries in vain to get his children interested in football

24 passes from Scunthorpe: Scunthorpe (a)

Match report

2 August 2008

24 passes from Scunthorpe: Scunthorpe (a) report

Winning is easy with eyes closed: Lincoln (h)

Match report

29 July 2008

Winning is easy with eyes closed: Lincoln (h) report

An invitation to treat: Gainsborough (a)

Match report

22 July 2008

An invitation to treat: Gainsborough (a) report

Peter Bore's shorts are falling down: Winterton (a)

Match report

21 July 2008

Peter Bore's shorts are falling down: Winterton (a) report

Dying to survive

26 June 2008

Alistair Wilkinson returns with more verse

Close Encounters: Ron Rafferty

29 May 2008

Remember that time you were run over at a crossroads by Peter Furneaux? Tell us all about it here

Not Man and Boy: Why

21 April 2008

Al Wilkinson tries in vain to get his children interested in football

Hang down your head, Tom Newey: Bradford (a)

Match report

19 April 2008

Hang down your head, Tom Newey: Bradford (a) report

A new kid in Town: Wycombe (h)

Match report

15 April 2008

A new kid in Town: Wycombe (h) report

Reasons to be cheerful

14 April 2008

Dave Chambers provides an antidote to all the doom and gloom on Cod Almighty

Nothing happens, nobody comes: Rotherham (h)

Match report

12 April 2008

Nothing happens, nobody comes: Rotherham (h) report

It's all over now baby blue: Rochdale (a)

Match report

5 April 2008

It's all over now baby blue: Rochdale (a) report

Take The Money and Run: Paint Pot Trophy final

Match report

30 March 2008

Take The Money and Run: Paint Pot Trophy final report

A cold Tuesday night

28 March 2008

Alistair Wilkinson on Burnley

A brief history of wasted time: Brentford (h)

Match report

24 March 2008

A brief history of wasted time: Brentford (h) report

Goodbye Yellowbrick Road

Match report

22 March 2008

Goodbye Yellowbrick Road

They ploughed the fields and scattered: Darlington (a)

Match report

15 March 2008

They ploughed the fields and scattered: Darlington (a) report

Remember that time you were run over at a crossroads by Peter Furneaux? Tell us all about it here

The bigots' last resort

7 November 2007

Nell Farrell reports on the rise in homophobia at football grounds

An inside job: Rotherham (a)

Match report

3 November 2007

An inside job: Rotherham (a) report

In stasis: Bradford (h)

Match report

Match report

2 October 2007

Bodies in motion and at rest: Chester (h) report

Pictures at an exhibition: Hereford (h)

Match report

29 September 2007

Pictures at an exhibition: Hereford (h) report

Purple shouty man: Hereford United (h)

29 September 2007

Standfirst

All in a flutter

25 September 2007

Now they're having a go at the birds, it's not their fault says Steve Meek

Catching the worms: Lincoln (a)

Match report

22 September 2007

Catching the worms: Lincoln (a) report

Not Man and Boy: Listening to Villa

18 September 2007

Al Wilkinson tries in vain to get his children interested in football

Through the looking glass: Stockport (h)

Match report

15 September 2007

Through the looking glass: Stockport (h) report

Purple shouty man: Stockport County (h)

15 September 2007

Grrrr. Grrrr. Grrrr. In technocolor.

Déjà vu: Accrington (a)

Match report

8 September 2007

Déjà vu: Accrington (a)

Slugs and snails: Shrewsbury (a)

Match report

1 September 2007

Slugs and snails: Shrewsbury (a) report

Player profile: Dave Mulligan

31 August 2007

2007-08 player profile: Dave Mulligan

We get our kicks throwing sticks

30 August 2007

Alistair Wilkinson gives us some verse

Six assorted cupcakes: Macclesfield (h)

Match report

25 August 2007

Six assorted cupcakes: Macclesfield (h) report

Purple shouty man: Macclesfield (h)

25 August 2007

What's purple and shouts? Purple shouty man!

Rebel without applause: Bury (a)

Match report

18 August 2007

Rebel without applause: Bury (a) report

The rock and roll years: Burnley (h)

Match report

14 August 2007

The rock and roll years: Burnley (h) report

Head over heels: Notts County (h)

Match report

Match report

31 July 2007

Sweet gingerbread men: Grantham (a) report

Rough guide to... Bradford City

29 July 2007

2007-08 rough guide to... Bradford City

Rough guide to... Brentford

24 July 2007

2007-08 rough guide to... Brentford

David Cameron's black and white army?

21 July 2007

News from a parallel universe

Rough guide to... Chesterfield

18 July 2007

2007-08 rough guide to... Chesterfield

Rough guide to... Rotherham United

12 July 2007

2007-08 rough guide to... Rotherham United

Rough guide to... Dagenham & Redbridge

6 July 2007

2007-08 rough guide to... Dagenham & Redbridge

Apocalypse Now made the Doors sound good

15 June 2007

Poetic verse by Alistair Wilkinson

Where were you when Grimsby hammered Boston?

30 May 2007

There were moments to remember this season, says Richard Lord

Not Man and Boy: Kick!

17 May 2007

Al Wilkinson tries in vain to get his children interested in football

Party in the Meadow: Shrewsbury (a)

Match report

5 May 2007

Party in the Meadow: Shrewsbury (a) report

Instant karma: Lincoln (h)

Match report

Match report

24 March 2007

Cheese and onion: Peterborough (h) report

Too little too late: Macclesfield (a)

Match report

24 February 2007

Too little too late: Macclesfield (a) report

Ticking away: Wrexham (h)

Match report

20 February 2007

Ticking away: Wrexham (h) report

The future's bright: Mansfield (a)

26 January 2007

2006-07 player profiles: Simon Grand

Where I came in...

22 January 2007

Martyn Wyburn's mate took him to Blundell Park in the late 1960s - beginning a lifelong addiction

Town on the box: Hereford (h), 8 October 2006

22 January 2007

Readers share their experiences of watching Town on the telly

How's your Bert's lumbago? Darlington (h)

Match report

20 January 2007

How's your Bert's lumbago? Darlington (h) report

Player profiles: Peter Till

19 January 2007

2006-07 player profiles: Peter Till

Drab and drabber: Walsall (a)

Match report

15 January 2007

Drab and drabber: Walsall (a) report

Player profiles: Martin Paterson

10 January 2007

2006-07 player profiles: Martin Paterson

Town's greatest goals #3: Jim Dobbin v Newcastle, 1992

9 January 2007

You ranked Jim Dobbin's scorcher against Newcastle as your third greatest Town goal

Flushed away: Chester (h)

Match report

9 January 2007

Flushed away: Chester (h) report

7 December 2006

Readers share their experiences of watching Town on the telly

The secret of George Kerr's commentary magic

6 December 2006

The ex-Town manager turned Radio Humberside expert summariser's pre-match regime revealed

The ants are my friend: Barnet (a)

Match report

5 December 2006

The ants are my friend: Barnet (a) report

A day in the life: Accrington (h)

Match report

25 November 2006

A day in the life: Accrington (h) report

Tea and sympathy: Northampton (h)

Match report

21 November 2006

Tea and sympathy: Northampton (h) report

The lodger's gone

20 November 2006

More poetry from Mr Wilkinson

A tale of two bandages: Wycombe (a)

Match report

18 November 2006

A tale of two bandages: Wycombe (a) report

Spot the difference

17 November 2006

For a few dollars more

12 November 2006

Richard Dawson takes a look at the corruption engulfing our southern Lincolnshire rivals, Boston United

Back to the future III: Northampton (a)

Match report

11 November 2006

Back to the future III: Northampton (a) report

As bad as it gets

9 November 2006

Chris Mills wonders how we got ourselves in to this mess

The Graham Rodger Crap-O-Meter

7 November 2006

Were the results during Grez's tenure really that crap?

He never had a chance

6 November 2006

Pat Bell looks back on the Town career of Graham Rodger

Just like Tom Thumb's blues: Bastard Franchise Scum (h)

Match report

Match report

6 September 2006

News from a parallel universe

Reality check

5 September 2006

Tony Rogers is surprised at how quickly Town's support turns from upbeat to despair

Player profiles: Ricky Ravenhill

5 September 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Ricky Ravenhill

M + M = Crewe boo and Buried

4 September 2006

More verse from Alistair Wilkinson

Ballpark Figures: Just how bad is it?

4 September 2006

Is Town's poor start to the season a usual occurrence?

Whatever floats your boat

3 September 2006

Dave Chambers is enjoying the new season. He may be alone with that feeling

Hard times: Macclesfield (h)

Match report

1 September 2006

Hard times: Macclesfield (h) report

Player profiles: Danny Boshell

30 August 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Danny Boshell

Ballpark Figures: Is it twirly?

30 August 2006

Does a poor August suggest a poor season?

Player profiles: Nick Fenton

26 August 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Nick Fenton

Player profiles: Nick Hegarty

26 August 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Nick Hegarty

The monster mash: Bury (a)

Match report

26 August 2006

The monster mash: Bury (a) report

Swimming in a fishbowl: Crewe (h)

Match report

22 August 2006

Swimming in a fishbowl: Crewe (h) report

A close shave: Mansfield (h)

Match report

18 August 2006

A close shave: Mansfield (h) report

Three games, three points; 43 to go...

16 August 2006

Alistair Wilkinson in verse

Different wavelengths

15 August 2006

Wireless technology? Sure, I'm happy listening to Town on the radio, says Ian Rawson

Rough guide to... Chester City

14 August 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Chester City

Rough guide to... Hartlepool United

8 August 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Hartlepool United

Done roamin': Wrexham (a)

Match report

8 August 2006

Done roamin': Wrexham (a) report

Rough guide to... Mansfield Town

5 August 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Mansfield Town

Wonderboy: Boston (h)

Match report

5 August 2006

Wonderboy: Boston (h) report

Justin Whittle interview

3 August 2006

Simon Wilson caught up with Justin Whittle to get his views on the coming season

Player profiles: John McDermott

3 August 2006

2006-07 player profiles: John McDermott

Player profiles: Terry Barwick

3 August 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Terry Barwick

Rough guide to... Lincoln City

2 August 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Lincoln City

Player profiles: Phil Barnes

1 August 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Phil Barnes

Player profiles: Michael Reddy

1 August 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Michael Reddy

Rough guide to... Darlington

1 August 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Darlington

Player profiles: Paul Bolland

31 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Paul Bolland

Player profiles: Ciaran Toner

31 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Ciaran Toner

Player profiles: Gary Jones

31 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Gary Jones

Player profiles: Peter Beagrie

31 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Peter Beagrie

Player profiles: Isaiah Rankin

30 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Isaiah Rankin

Rough guide to... Rochdale

30 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Rochdale

Player profiles: Justin Whittle

28 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Justin Whittle

Player profiles: Gary Croft

28 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Gary Croft

Player profiles: The youth of today

28 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: The youth of today

Player profiles: Tom Newey

28 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Tom Newey

Player profiles: Gary Cohen

28 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Gary Cohen

Player profiles: Martin McIntosh

28 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Martin McIntosh

Player profiles: Ben Futcher

28 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Ben Futcher

Rough guide to... Shrewsbury Town

27 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Shrewsbury Town

Player profiles: Gary Harkins

26 July 2006

2006-07 player profiles: Gary Harkins

Rough guide to... Bury

24 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Bury

Rough guide to... Boston United

21 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Boston United

Rough guide to... Hereford United

18 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Hereford United

Rough guide to... Bristol Rovers

15 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Bristol Rovers

Rough guide to... Wrexham

10 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Wrexham

Rough guide to... Stockport County

6 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Stockport County

Rough guide to... Swindon Town

3 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Swindon Town

Rough guide to... Accrington Stanley

1 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Accrington Stanley

Rough guide to... Barnet

1 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Barnet

Rough guide to... Macclesfield Town

1 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Macclesfield Town

Rough guide to... Notts County

1 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Notts County

Rough guide to... Peterborough United

1 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Peterborough United

Rough guide to... Torquay United

1 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Torquay United

Rough guide to... Walsall

1 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Walsall

Rough guide to... Wycombe Wanderers

1 July 2006

2006-07 rough guide to... Wycombe Wanderers

Graham crackers!

6 June 2006

News from a parallel universe

Failed in Wales: Cheltenham (play-off final)

Match report

28 May 2006

Failed in Wales: Cheltenham (play-off final) report

Match report

4 March 2006

All you get is pain: Rushden (a) report

What tradition?

1 March 2006

An article from Slade's first spell questioning Town's 'tradition' of passing football is curiously timely

A cut above

27 February 2006

Michael Shelton considers his favourite Grimsby Town hair cuts of all time

Whiplash: Chester (h)

The stadium deserves better: Darlington (a)

Match report

17 January 2006

The stadium deserves better: Darlington (a) report

Monster monster!

16 January 2006

News from a parallel universe

Something in the air: Mansfield (h)

Match report

14 January 2006

Something in the air: Mansfield (h) report

A bridge too far: Carlisle (h)

Match report

2 January 2006

A bridge too far: Carlisle (h) report

Wake up Deadman: Wrexham (a)

Match report

Match report

Match report

29 October 2005

Jumping the shark: Northampton (a) report

Qu'est que c'est? The Newcastle

Match report

16 September 2005

2005-06 player profile: Gary Croft

Things you only know if you're from Grimsby 5

13 September 2005

Pete Green on the pearls of wisdom bestowed only on those fortunate enough to be born within the shadow of Grimsby dock tower

Pump up the volume: Peterborough (a)

Match report

10 September 2005

Pump up the volume: Peterborough (a) report

In the air tonight: Chester (a)

Match report

6 September 2005

In the air tonight: Chester (a) report

You can't hide your love forever

4 September 2005

Richard Lord won't keep his love of Town in the closet any longer

Dry bones

Match report

Player profile: Gary Jones

28 August 2005

2005-06 player profile: Gary Jones

The Barnet blitz

Match report

27 August 2005

The Barnet blitz

Making plans for Russell

Match report

24 August 2005

Making plans for Russell

Senses working overtime

Match report

20 August 2005

Senses working overtime

Player profile: Paul Bolland

18 August 2005

2005-06 player profile: Paul Bolland

Player profile: John Lukic

10 August 2005

2005-06 player profile: John Lukic

TBZAS go mad in Bristol

Match report

9 August 2005

TBZAS go mad in Bristol

Plus ca change

Match report

6 August 2005

Plus ca change

Full-back to the future

Match report

2 August 2005

Full-back to the future

Player profile: Gary Cohen

1 August 2005

2005-06 player profile: Gary Cohen

Player profile: Glen Downey

1 August 2005

2005-06 player profile: Glen Downey

Hey hey JPK

Where have all the flowers gone?

Match report

15 July 2005

Where have all the flowers gone?

Match report

14 July 2005

Where have all the flowers gone?

Hound of love

7 June 2005

Why I called my dog Macca

7 April 2005

Dan Humphrey reports on the Supporters' Trust AGM

Gonna get deep down

7 April 2005

Tired of the corporate nature of League football, Pete Green took a trip to Sheffield FC to cleanse his football soul

Feet up!

4 April 2005

Boiler or Town, boiler or Town. Dave Chambers admits that there'll always be one winner

Dead loss

Match report

2 April 2005

Dead loss

From Cape Town to Rochdale

1 April 2005

Richard Lord impresses his South African girlfriend with a nice trip to Spotland

What's the point?

Match report

28 March 2005

What's the point?

Suspension of belief

Match report

25 March 2005

Suspension of belief

Twelve angry men

Match report

Match report

26 February 2005

Yo! Sushi

Radio gag gag

25 February 2005

The club have fallen out with the media again

Reversal of fortune

Match report

1 February 2005

What do Shaun Cunnington, John Oster, Gary Croft and Andy Tillson have in common? Pat Bell provides the analysis

We all stand together

31 January 2005

Mike Worden on how real football fans stick together in times of crisis

Too late the hero

Match report

22 January 2005

Too late the hero

Three Men In A Boat

Match report

15 January 2005

Three Men In A Boat

Street Fighting Stan

Match report

11 January 2005

Street Fighting Stan

Video review: Down... But STILL Not Out

5 January 2005

Richard Lord grimmaces through last season's highlights video

Pinault colada

Match report

3 January 2005

Pinault colada

Cod and chips (no mushy peas)

Match report

29 December 2004

Cod and chips (no mushy peas)

Living in hope

Match report

Match report

20 November 2004

Have a cow, man

Close Encounters: Daryl Clare

20 November 2004

Remember that time you were run over at a crossroads by Peter Furneaux? Tell us all about it here

Codswallop's one for the ladies

17 November 2004

Had enough of the usual liberal, lefty, do-gooder Cod Almighty writing? Codswallop hits you hard and gives it to you straight. You couldn't make it up!!!

Right string, wrong yo-yo

9 November 2004

Bad decisions and silly mistakes are costing Town points, claims Si Wilson

The referee's a fig leaf

Match report

6 November 2004

The referee's a fig leaf

5 October 2004

Take advantage of Cod Almighty's exclusive executive box offer

The dish ran away with the spoon

Match report

1 October 2004

The dish ran away with the spoon

The Abbey habit

Match report

25 September 2004

The Abbey habit

Addickted to luck

Match report

21 September 2004

Addickted to luck

Police, Town and supporters club together to crack football crime

21 September 2004

The Grimsby Telegraph did promote the anti-racism hotline, says Phillip Norton. We re-publish the original article here (with permission)

Keep the customer satisfied

Match report

28 August 2004

Keep the customer satisfied

Tales from the riverbank

Match report

24 August 2004

Tales from the riverbank

The song remains the same

Match report

Staying alive

Match report

1 May 2004

Staying alive

The goblet of dire

Match report

24 April 2004

The goblet of dire

Stone the Crowes!

19 April 2004

Sam Metcalf caught up with John Stone - a hard-working right-back in the George Kerr era

The Thundercliffe interviews: Peter Furneaux

18 April 2004

A 2004 Paul Thundercliffe interview with the late Peter Furneaux, then GTFC chairman

On the rebound

Match report

17 April 2004

On the rebound

Murphy's law

Match report

12 April 2004

Murphy's law

Going underground

Match report

The end of the affair

2 April 2004

The final straw - Paul Thundercliffe on why he's had enough of Town and of football in general

Desmonds

31 March 2004

The departure of Des Hamilton forces the club in to desperate measures

The pump don't work

Match report

27 March 2004

The pump don't work

Best of a bad bunch

26 March 2004

Guest Diary argues the case for Stacey Coldicott to win the player of the year award

If it isn't hurting, it isn't Grimsby

24 March 2004

The country may suffer, but Town perform much better under a Tory government claims Pat Bell

Unforgiven

5 March 2004

Wibble

2 March 2004

Andrew Lumbard dragged along a friend to his first Town match...

The lunatics are on the grass

Match report

2 March 2004

The lunatics are on the grass

Taking the Mick

Match report

28 February 2004

Taking the Mick

Who do you trust?

25 February 2004

Andy Atkins on the apparent goalkeeper crisis currently faced by the club

Jevons knows they're miserable now

Match report

24 February 2004

Jevons knows they're miserable now

The French connection

24 February 2004

With news that Eugene Kangulungu is to arrive at Blundell Park for a trial, or man in France Stu Morton digs around for information on his previous form

Grimsby Town: A Pictorial History

19 February 2004

A look back in time at key moments that may or may not have happened in the Mariners' history books

Outside looking in

18 February 2004

Gareth Lightfoot was dragged to a Town match by Si Wilson. At Oakwell, no-one can hear you scream

Hare for Town

18 February 2004

Si Wilson puts forward resident betting expert, Mat Hare, as the best candidate for the management position at Blundell Park

Wild things run fast

Match report

17 February 2004

Wild things run fast

Uptown top Rankin

Match report

14 February 2004

Uptown top Rankin

The contenders

11 February 2004

Our views on the potential contenders for the job of manager at GTFC

The race for Blundell Park

10 February 2004

With the Cod Almighty GTFC manager-o-meter you can now keep track of the leading candidates for the BP hotseat as their fortunes wax and wane

The hollow men

Match report

8 February 2004

The hollow men

Take out a Grimsby & Cleethorpes Footballer Mortgage

5 February 2004

You'll be glad you did

Soul limbo

Match report

20 January 2004

Soul limbo

Close Encounters: Paul Groves

19 January 2004

Remember that time you were run over at a crossroads by Peter Furneaux? Tell us all about it here

Thin ice

Match report

17 January 2004

Thin ice

The long view, or There and back again

16 January 2004

Richard Dawson on why Town have found their natural level

Ladies Night

14 January 2004

Did the club manage to lure Atomic Kitten other disastrous season

Groves point blank

Match report

10 January 2004

Groves point blank

Something Wycombe this way comes

7 January 2004

Mark Wilson argues the case for giving Paul Groves more time to turn things around

The gaffer tapes: November and December '03

6 January 2004

Will Mat Hare's extensive experience of Championship Manager be enough to land him a job at a real club. If you don't ask, you don't get

Player profile: Iain Anderson

5 January 2004

2003-04 player profile: Iain Anderson

Close Encounters: Tony Ford

5 January 2004

Remember that time you were run over at a crossroads by Peter Furneaux? Tell us all about it here

Adams' grapple

19 December 2003

Grimsby Town's account manager, Steve Wraith, gives us his rundown on 2003

Worlds apart

16 December 2003

Martin Handsley reports back from the FIFA World Player of the Year gala in Switzerland

If you're going to London Road...

15 December 2003

An American adventure 2: Jesse goes east

Bourne slippy

Match report

13 December 2003

Bourne slippy

My new favourite player

11 December 2003

Sam Metcalf looks back at Keith Alexander's arrival at Blundell Park

Petering out

Match report

6 December 2003

Petering out

Shoulder to shoulder

4 December 2003

An American adventure

Player profile: Jonathan Rowan

3 December 2003

2003-04 player profile: Jonathan Rowan

Player profile: Chris Bolder

1 December 2003

2003-04 player profile: Chris Bolder

Pathos

1 December 2003

It's not easy being Simon Wilson

Close Encounters: Stacy Coldicott

1 December 2003

Remember that time you were run over at a crossroads by Peter Furneaux? Tell us all about it here

Player profile: Phil Jevons

30 November 2003

2003-04 player profile: Phil Jevons

Who's the Dadi?

Match report

29 November 2003

Who's the Dadi?

The future imperfect

Match report

25 November 2003

The future imperfect

Close Encounters: Chris Hargreaves

25 November 2003

Remember that time you were run over at a crossroads by Peter Furneaux? Tell us all about it here

Close Encounters: Kevin Donovan

24 November 2003

Remember that time you were run over at a crossroads by Peter Furneaux? Tell us all about it here

Splash and grab

Match report

22 November 2003

Splash and grab

Give us a Gee

20 November 2003

The recent emergence of local 'celebrity' Kim Gee means Town are bound to do well in the cup, claims Richard Dawson

The gaffer tapes: October '03

20 November 2003

Will Mat Hare's extensive experience of Championship Manager be enough to land him a job at a real club. If you don't ask, you don't get

Player profile: Iffy Onuora

17 November 2003

2003-04 player profile: Iffy Onuora

Scrappy Doo

Player profile: Alan Pouton

12 November 2003

2003-04 player profile: Alan Pouton

Nice 'n' easy does it

Match report

8 November 2003

Nice 'n' easy does it

Things you only know if you're from Grimsby 3

5 November 2003

Pete Green on the pearls of wisdom bestowed only on those fortunate enough to be born within the shadow of Grimsby dock tower

Loan rangers

3 November 2003

Si Wilson tries unsuccessfully to encourage other clubs to loan players to Grimsby

Fools rushed in

Match report

1 November 2003

Fools rushed in

FAC this for a game of soldiers!

30 October 2003

Mat Hare on falling out of love with the FA Cup

The joy of ex

Match report

25 October 2003

The joy of ex

Two for joy

Match report

21 October 2003

Two for joy

Not waving but clapping

Match report

18 October 2003

Not waving but clapping

Racial imbalance

16 October 2003

On the eve of the club's anti-racism dat, Si Wilson is exasperated that such measures are still needed

Vive la difference!

13 October 2003

Ever wondered what life would be like supporting Town from a foreign land? Stu Morton gives us his dispatches from France

Moments of madness

Match report

11 October 2003

Moments of madness

Basel not so faulty

8 October 2003

Martin Handsley updates us on the progress made by FC Basel the season after their Champions League run

Hoola hoopla

Match report

4 October 2003

Hoola hoopla

Bingo!

Match report

30 September 2003

Bingo!

Big Wednesday

Match report

6 September 2003

Sunshine after rain

The gaffer tapes: an introduction

1 September 2003

Will Mat Hare's extensive experience of Championship Manager be enough to land him a job at a real club. If you don't ask, you don't get

6 August 2003

Resident match reporter, Tony Butcher, is put under the spotlight by Pete Green

Do you want to know a secret?

Match report

1 August 2003

Do you want to know a secret?

Season Preview: 2003-04

1 August 2003

You gave your views on how you saw the season ahead

Michael Clearly Not Balding

25 July 2003

Si Wilson is concerned by certain hair cuts on display in the team photo

Rough guide to... Barnsley

18 July 2003

The 2003/4 rough guide to Barnsley

Northern exposure

3 July 2003

Tim White's epic tale of hitch-hiking to Hartlepool away, featuring PC Plod, lager, and abattoir crime

Things you only know if you're from Grimsby 2

18 June 2003

Pete Green on the pearls of wisdom bestowed only on those fortunate enough to be born within the shadow of Grimsby dock tower

Rabbiting in the headlines

12 June 2003

Are the club signing players based purely on their pun-able surnames, asks Miles Moss

A Grimsby disease

23 May 2003

Al Wilkinson on living in a town where most people don't support the Mariners: Grimsby

Town made me do it

7 May 2003

Meet Steve the kitten. Not unlike Steve the kitten.

Sunday in the Park with Georges

Match report

4 May 2003

Sunday in the Park with Georges

17 February 2003

Pete Green on the pearls of wisdom bestowed only on those fortunate enough to be born within the shadow of Grimsby dock tower

Meet the Feebles

Match report

15 February 2003

Meet the Feebles

All together now

Match report

8 February 2003

All together now

Taking candy from a baby

Match report

1 February 2003

Taking candy from a baby

Another gooseberry fool for tea

Match report

25 January 2003

Another gooseberry fool for tea

Let's have it now.'

20 January 2003

From books to Sky Sports, via Romania. Si Wilson gives us his thoughts

Taxi for Mr Groves

Match report

Match report

28 December 2002

Diving for dear life

The kids are alright

Match report

26 December 2002

The kids are alright

New Boots and Santos

Match report

21 December 2002

New Boots and Santos

Deepdull dross

Match report

14 December 2002

Deepdull dross

The road to Muckley Corner

Match report

7 December 2002

The road to Muckley Corner

And to realities yield all her shows...

3 December 2002

Si Wilson on the home match against Leicester

Roll with it

2 December 2002

Martin Handsley finds himself won over by the charms of his local team, FC Basel

The bicycle kick thieves

Match report

30 November 2002

The bicycle kick thieves

Where eagles dire

Match report

23 November 2002

Where eagles dire

Liverpool neutralised

19 November 2002

Updates from Martin Handsley on FC Basel's Champions League campaign

The rub of the green

Match report

Match report

9 November 2002

Phoenix nights

Out of Africa

3 November 2002

Andy Holt reports back on football in the Ivory Coast

Return of the prodigal son

Match report

2 November 2002

Return of the prodigal son

Trick or treat?

Match report

29 October 2002

Trick or treat?

Livvo is the past

Match report

26 October 2002

Livvo is the past

Just like that!

24 October 2002

Football support varies in nature as you move around Europe. Martin Handsley picks out some of the differences

Time to club together

22 October 2002

Martin Handsley on the financial implications for clubs following the collapse of the ITV digital deal

And then there were nine

Match report

19 October 2002

And then there were nine

Winter brakes

17 October 2002

Martin Handsley warns against underestimating Swiss football

Peter Furneaux appearing on Radio Humberside phone in

15 October 2002

Transcript of Peter Furneaux's appearance on Radio Humberside

Le Massif Central

Match report

12 October 2002

Le Massif Central

Emergency Ward 10

Spanish inquisition

7 October 2002

Further updates from Martin Handsley on the progress of FC Basel in the Champions League

One lump or two?

Match report

Mr Pooter comes to Town

Match report

Match report

16 October 1999

My Head Hurts

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