Well it's official we made the national news.

Grimsby is indeed the bottom end of the country.

The worst place in the country for high street takeaways, pawnbrokers. charity shops and betting shops outlining the fact we are the most poverty-stricken unhealthiest place in the UK.

All this will not help to attract players to Mike Jolley and GTFC.

Non football

Quoted from Cloudy

Non football

I disagree I think there is more of an element of truth to the reason why finding players to come here is not easy.

So in that reasoning, there is a tenable link to football.

Have you ever heard of such a ludicrous report ever? The "unhealthiest high street..." in the UK.  Apparently a stretch of Victoria Street which is not the main shopping centre, not attached as such to the museum, the minster, the library or anything like that which gives us extra "points" means once again we are subject to national humiliation because it has what it was designed for - food outlets and shops (albeit some are empty like everywhere else) means we are "unhealthy". I haven't looked it up, but I bet Grimsby is no different from hundreds of towns in the healthy stakes, including longevity.

One day the council will wake up and start showing the gems of the town to the world. Look on YouTube at the aerial views of the Docks, marina and dock tower - it is absolutely fantastic and all those should be at the forefront of the town's regeneration (including of course a spanking new stadium with the dock tower behind it.)

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

Have you ever heard of such a ludicrous report ever? The "unhealthiest high street..." in the UK.  Apparently a stretch of Victoria Street which is not the main shopping centre, not attached as such to the museum, the minster, the library or anything like that which gives us extra "points" means once again we are subject to national humiliation because it has what it was designed for - food outlets and shops (albeit some are empty like everywhere else) means we are "unhealthy". I haven't looked it up, but I bet Grimsby is no different from hundreds of towns in the healthy stakes, including longevity.

One day the council will wake up and start showing the gems of the town to the world. Look on YouTube at the aerial views of the Docks, marina and dock tower - it is absolutely fantastic and all those should be at the forefront of the town's regeneration (including of course a spanking new stadium with the dock tower behind it.)

This all day long...

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

Have you ever heard of such a ludicrous report ever? The "unhealthiest high street..." in the UK.  Apparently a stretch of Victoria Street which is not the main shopping centre, not attached as such to the museum, the minster, the library or anything like that which gives us extra "points" means once again we are subject to national humiliation because it has what it was designed for - food outlets and shops (albeit some are empty like everywhere else) means we are "unhealthy". I haven't looked it up, but I bet Grimsby is no different from hundreds of towns in the healthy stakes, including longevity.

One day the council will wake up and start showing the gems of the town to the world. Look on YouTube at the aerial views of the Docks, marina and dock tower - it is absolutely fantastic and all those should be at the forefront of the town's regeneration (including of course a spanking new stadium with the dock tower behind it.)

This. It's just so lazy to bring up "Grimsby" when talking of deprived Towns, never Clacton or Hastings yet these and other Southern places have featured recently in similar (but well researched) looks into poverty and have some gut-wrenching, soul destroying images of the most down and out places you could see.
It's a horrible problem for all of the UK and deserves much more than these novelty pieces/top 20's in the press, especially when the column inches concentrate on the cliched 'grim Northern' Towns and not the obviously more nationwide problem.

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Grimsby is indeed the bottom end of the country.

The worst place in the country for high street takeaways, pawnbrokers. charity shops and betting shops outlining the fact we are the most poverty-stricken unhealthiest place in the UK.

All this will not help to attract players to Mike Jolley and GTFC.

Another way of looking at it....if you like a takeway, easy money, some cheap shopping and a bet.... Grimsby is the best place to live in the UK    

I've been to a lot of places on this planet and we are far from the bottom believe me. There is always something going on in our part of the world, far more than other places that I have been. All we need now is a spanking new football/sports/community development to pull us out of what everywhere else is suffering from in this present age we live in. Lets get it on.

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Grimsby is indeed the bottom end of the country.

The worst place in the country for high street takeaways, pawnbrokers. charity shops and betting shops outlining the fact we are the most poverty-stricken unhealthiest place in the UK.

All this will not help to attract players to Mike Jolley and GTFC.

Or the best, if what you like is fast-food and a bet.

Nothing wrong with the town that can't be put right by some positive, forward-thinking businessmen and some political will. Instead of everyone moaning about our 'plight', why can't people put their personal agendas to one side and work for the common good?

There is a common goal to be had - a community regeneration with a new stadium as its' flagship which would not only encourage employment but give us something to be proud of.