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February 5, 2018, 9:30pm

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19th April 1997 v Reading.  A year to the day later and we were at Wembley.
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Christmas Day 1957, Grimsby 3 Liverpool 1.

There were 17,000+ in the ground. We were in the Osmond Stand, Dad, Uncle & me, couldn’t see a thing first half until I got passed down to the front railing. Jeff Whitefoot, Johnny Scott and Jimmy Fell scored but I don’t remember any of the goals. That dirty sodomist Billy Liddell was playing for Liverpool and the Town fans booed every time he got the ball.

We lost the return game next day, Boxing Day, at Liverpool 3-2.


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Grimsby Town 1 Exeter City 2, think it was around 1969 and I believe David Pleat scored for Exeter.

Stood in the Osmond with my sadly departed Grandad. Great days then and better days just around the corner with the return of my hero Sir Matt Tees.


Was that a Saturday night game? Think I was at that game we signed Keith Cockburn left winger from Bradford PA and he scored that night on his debut. Do not believe his career with us lasted too long.
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Do you remember the guy in the Barratt Stand, during Town's warm -up, shouting 'Give us a wave - Dave' (to Dave Worthington) - every home match and Dave would duly turn round and wave at him? Great season, that McMenemy promotion.



Have to say cannot recall that, which is annoying, but remember one of the crunchier crowd had massive ears and was spitting image of the Ancient Mariner guy sports telegraph would draw on front page of the footie paper with his different faces reflecting his emotions to our result  win, loss or a draw.
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I was 12 and it was in the 2001-2002 season Stockport away, I'd only really gotten into football about 2 or 3 years earlier and out of the blue I just asked my Dad that morning if I could go with him to the match as I knew he was going, I seem to recall it was 3-3 in the end.


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I remember going to Meadow Lane, Notts County and Keith Cockburn scored for us, with a low left foot shot, in a 2-1 defeat - I think County may have won the 4th division that season.


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Town Res v Sundaland Res about 1969


In his three stints as Grimsby Town manager spanning over 10 years the club was never relegated and he also guided them to three promotions.
Only 14 managers have reached 1,000 matches in charge of a Football League team by 1998 and Buckley is one of them.
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I remember going to Meadow Lane, Notts County and Keith Cockburn scored for us, with a low left foot shot, in a 2-1 defeat - I think County may have won the 4th division that season.


I was at the game when County won the league with Don Masson and Tony Hately playing, Hately had returned after playing for Villa and Liverpool and I thought we lost 1-0 on a hot day but time dims the memory. There were not many town fans in attendance, and their ground was very much like BP and we were attacked by County/ Forest fans in the ground as skinheads started to appear on the terraces.
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Town v Lincoln 1990, won 1-0 with a Dave Gilbert penalty
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Don't remember the exact date sometime in the early to mid 90's, opponents were blue I think at least in my mind. We lost and quite badly I think something like 1:4 rings a bell? or 2:4. I mainly remember the game because my Dad had to explain the backpass rule that was making it's way into the game after Crichton picked up a back pass leading to a free kick in our box.

Even though we lost I still enjoyed it and asked my dad to start bringing me regularly. He had wanted to before apparently but my mum insisted I was too young or something lol.
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