I didn’t really want to sign for Grimsby Town. I’d played in the Football League — in all three tiers beneath the Premier League — for more than a decade. Dropping out of the professional ranks into the National League was, if I’m honest, a bit of a dent to my pride. An unfashionable town on the north Lincolnshire coast wasn’t the most alluring place to play, but it was all there was.
Grimsby, however, as vividly as any of the six clubs I represented during my career, showed me just what a football club means to its town. To its people. Not all of them of course. But as a place where people congregate in their hundreds or thousands, a central pillar of a community, nothing comes close in provincial towns.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Any way of reading the article without a subscription to the Times?
You can register for a free subscription but only get a very limited amount of articles. If you only read the Gregor Robertson articles it's fine for that.
I would read The Times a lot more but it's a very expensive subscription.
You can register for a free subscription but only get a very limited amount of articles. If you only read the Gregor Robertson articles it's fine for that.
I would read The Times a lot more but it's a very expensive subscription.
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