Great club put a lot back into the local area in the shape of children's football and school holiday training days , Tommy Watson started it all twenty years ago I believe and the whole set up just keeps getting bigger.
Question is at what level would Cleethorpes become rivals rather than a local curiosity we are all happy to see progress? I remember I used to look out for Boston United results when I was a kid, never did I dream one day we would play alongside then in the same league.
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Question is at what level would Cleethorpes become rivals rather than a local curiosity we are all happy to see progress? I remember I used to look out for Boston United results when I was a kid, never did I dream one day we would play alongside then in the same league.
They already are and always have been rivals. Up the illegitimate mariners, down the illegitimate owls.
Controversial opinion, but... does a local team *have* to be a rival?
I mean, right now Cleethorpes are just a local side doing well. Long may it continue. I support the Mariners and if the two sides ever met I'd be 100% behind Grimsby, but I also feel free to support Cleethorpes since they are (and will be for many Town fans) technically my home town team.
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Controversial opinion, but... does a local team *have* to be a rival?
I mean, right now Cleethorpes are just a local side doing well. Long may it continue. I support the Mariners and if the two sides ever met I'd be 100% behind Grimsby, but I also feel free to support Cleethorpes since they are (and will be for many Town fans) technically my home town team.
I was born in Cleethorpes but have never actually lived in Cleethorpes so not sure where I stand.
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I was born in Grimsby (Old Clee) - but my late dad was born in Cleethorpes (right adjacent to Blundell Park - must have been brilliant in the 30's)) - so am starting to feel some affiliation to Cleethorpes Town.
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