Sacha Baron Cohen new Grimsby look

Quoted from RoboCod

I don't think that's right.

It is right. The Everton fans saw fit to sing "You Only SINK When You're Fishing" through a minutes silence for one of a pair of Grimsby trawlers lost in storms with all hands in the North Sea a day or so before the game. It added particular satisfaction to a great win.

I was always told that the original "SING when we're fishing'  came up a few years before that though, not in 1979 when it went on to became a popular chant. I remember the Everton game at BP had a minutes silence for Paddy Hamilton but I don't recall any Everton taunts, unless it was another Everton game. We have a decent win ratio against them after all.

Quoted from Ships Cat

I've always thought that, from a marketing point of view the town should have used the name Great Grimsby a lot more. I do think the film will show us in a negative light, but this is also an opportunity to have our say about the positives of the area and maybe reinvent ourselves.

That would involve those in high places have the imagination and nouse to do that. And let's face it, it's not there at council level.

It is possible to turn around the outside view of an area - look at the campaign to turn Hull around through the City of Culture bid? So many people pulling together and look at the external investment.

If the powers that be hired imaginative PR and marketing people then they could use this film for good. But don't hold your breath.

Quoted from RoboCod

I was always told that the original "SING when we're fishing'  came up a few years before that though, not in 1979 when it went on to became a popular chant. I remember the Everton game at BP had a minutes silence for Paddy Hamilton but I don't recall any Everton taunts, unless it was another Everton game. We have a decent win ratio against them after all.

Bizarrely the minutes silence for Paddy Hamilton took place before the third round game against Notts County in the same season. That was observed impeccably by the Magpies fans IIRC.