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Madeleymariner
January 28, 2022, 12:37am

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Northampton away 1979,  my Dad (by then seperated from mum) came to my school and told them I had a doctors appt then whisked me off to Northampton (his car was a basic Escort estate) All I remember is standing behind a rope with a cricket pitch behind me, and stopping in Newark market place on the way home, sitting on a stall eating a minced beef pie from a chip shop. My mum was not a happy person when he dropped me off at home at what seemed to me was early hours of the morning. Think the game guaranteed us promotion if we won.

Just noticed it was an earlier posters first game
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My first match involving The Mariners was on the 4th of October 1941 where we beat Rotherham 6-2 at the Old Show Ground,Scunthorpe, Grimsby played all their home games for a number of seasons
during WW 2. I remember that Tweedy was in goal and the defence was Vincent, Hodgson,Hall ,Millington and Buck. I can`t remember the rest of the team but that match made me a life long fan of The Mariners.    
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28th December 1992
Endsleigh League Division One

Sunderland 2-0 Grimsby Town
Don Goodman 43
David Rush 64

Roker Park
Attendance: 20,771

Sunderland
1 Tony Norman
2 John Kay
3 Michael Gray
4 Richard Ord
5 Terry Butcher
6 Kevin Ball
7 Brian Mooney
8 Shaun Cunnington
9 Don Goodman
10 David Rush (12 Peter Davenport- 80 mins)
11 Gordon Armstrong
Unused sub: 14 Brian Atkinson

Grimsby Town
1 Steve Sherwood
2 John McDermott
3 Paul Agnew
4 Graham Rodger
5 Peter Handyside (12 Mark Smith- 77 mins)
6 Jim Dobbin
7 Tommy Watson
8 David Gilbert
9 Paul Groves
10 Clive Mendonca (14 Neil Woods- 62 mins)
11 Tony Rees

A Sunderland team containing 2 former & 1 future England internationals. Sunderland ended the season in 21st place and just 1 point above Brentford and Cambridge in 22nd & 23rd place.
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28th December 1992
Endsleigh League Division One

Sunderland 2-0 Grimsby Town
Don Goodman 43
David Rush 64

Roker Park
Attendance: 20,771

Sunderland
1 Tony Norman
2 John Kay
3 Michael Gray
4 Richard Ord
5 Terry Butcher
6 Kevin Ball
7 Brian Mooney
8 Shaun Cunnington
9 Don Goodman
10 David Rush (12 Peter Davenport- 80 mins)
11 Gordon Armstrong
Unused sub: 14 Brian Atkinson

Grimsby Town
1 Steve Sherwood
2 John McDermott
3 Paul Agnew
4 Graham Rodger
5 Peter Handyside (12 Mark Smith- 77 mins)
6 Jim Dobbin
7 Tommy Watson
8 David Gilbert
9 Paul Groves
10 Clive Mendonca (14 Neil Woods- 62 mins)
11 Tony Rees

A Sunderland team containing 2 former & 1 future England internationals. Sunderland ended the season in 21st place and just 1 point above Brentford and Cambridge in 22nd & 23rd place.


FA Cup finalists a year earlier, too. Hadn’t appreciated they’d only placed one position above us when they did that.


A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
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FA Cup finalists a year earlier, too. Hadn’t appreciated they’d only placed one position above us when they did that.


We beat them home & away the season they reached the FA Cup Final and finished behind them on goal difference.

I seem to remember Johnny Byrne scored in every round of their cup run and that being a very big deal back then. I can remember them beating Chelsea along the way & Norwich in the Semi-Final.
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Sheffield Wednesday 7-1 Town - FA Cup 3rd round - 4/1/97


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Relatively late to say I had been going for 4 years beforehand but the 97/98 Auto Windscreen Quarter final away at Scunny, we won 2-0 with Groves and Burnett scoring.


Tony Gallimore nicked my Pint and my sausage roll
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Sheffield Wednesday 7-1 Town - FA Cup 3rd round - 4/1/97


Shít, I’d forgotten about that one. That would have been my first, not the Scunny Auto Windscreens. Cracking goal by Johnny Oster (4:20).

https://youtu.be/ouIDh25UsHk


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Notts County away April 1994.  Town won 2-1 and I seem to remember Paul Reece in goal for County dropping one in his net right in front of the away end.
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Think mine was Barnsley 4 Mariners 1 in 1994. Andy Payton hattrick.  Lots of rain, little shelter.

But, I suspect my first away ground was Glanford Park to watch Newcastle with my dad one preseason, possibly 1993? Although we randomly went to Meadow Lane once around then but not to see town, sneaked off from a family trip....






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