The old Danish word for village was 'by' and this one was probably Grim's by. In Norse mythology, Grim (Mask) and Grimnir (Masked One) are names adopted by the deity Odin (Anglo-Saxon Woden) when travelling incognito amongst mortals. The larger port became known as Great Grimsby, to mark it out from the smaller hamlet, which is now called Little Grimsby. Just to confuse matters, however, the wider economic area, including Cleethorpes and Immingham, is sometimes referred to as “Greater Grimsby”. The 1086 Doomsday Book features Grimsby as having a recorded population of 32.5 households, putting it in the largest 40% of settlements recorded in the book. Which means it had more half beds than all the hotels in Portugal. The Grimsby Dock Tower was made using one million bricks. Back in 1998 there were more pizzas made in Grimsby than anywhere else in Europe, including Italy. Traditional Grimsby smoked fish has Protected Geographical Indication. Grimsby is noted in the Orkneyinga Saga in this Dróttkvætt stanza by Kali Kolsson: We have waded in mire for five terrible weeks; there was no lack of mud where we were, in the middle of Grimsby. But now away we let our beaked moose [ship] resound meerily on the waves over the seagull's swamp [sea] to Bergen. Grimsby is the site of a Blue Cross Animal Hospital, one of only four in the country, the other three being in London. The main stand at Blundell Park is the oldest in the football league. (May have changed as this is 6 year old site, and I can't be arsed to check) In 1974, Elton John Elton recorded a track called Grimsby. Written by Bernie Taupin about his teenage years in the town, the lyrics are: 'Oh oh Grimsby, a thousand delights, couldn't match the sweet sights of my Grimsby. Oh England you're fair but there's none to compare with my Grimsby.'
With all the stoppages still won’t see 90 minutes football though it will be closer to it than how much you see in a 90 minute game. Go you Tigers!
We'll win the 1st innings, draw the 2nd, win the 3rd and lose the 4th. Looking forward to the second test next week.
If in the unlikely event that we're, say, 5 goals in front after the second innings, can we make them follow on in the third?
We should be winning after the first quarter. Will be interesting to see how we are doing on yardage, pass completion etc… Hope the hotdogs are OK. And the xSDs (expected second downs)
New ground for me, that's about the only attraction now. If they do the same next week for Bradford which I've been to many a time, I may well sack it off
Been in Cleethorpes all week, came home today and going back again for the game tomorrow. Incredible bit of poor planning by us.
Grimsby were a regular quiz question a few years back .. they were at the time the only club that played all their games away from home (their home ground being located in Cleethorpes)
What did you do to deserve that? It's all good, instead of being in Cleethorpes and missing the Grimsby Town game, you can go to Grimsby and miss the Cleethorpes game.
Get more players 60 minutes in for both sides. You can see what they're trying to do. And it obviously serves both clubs preparations otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. And were probably not going to get an idea of probable first team at Norwich until the Nantes game. 'cos it's preseason. Booting off over anything in preseason is a bit like spaffing off to every match on match.com. Some need to get a grip.
