My ex's family were Port Vales fans and they say they were named after Port Vale Warf on the canal in Burslem. So a place but a place of work not a settlement.....
Funny how putting up a twitter post about someone’s fantasy about a possible move between City and Roma and saying they would be happy with this imaginary scenarios and saying it was even more ridiculous than some of the speculation on the transfer thread on here within a short time leads to remarks about JM and then to people discussing whether JM was at Grimsby or not.
going to grimsby yesterday was like going back intime proper old school ground with houses surrounding it ,wasn't the greatest of games think the way they had set it up spoilt the game, good travelling support from the city faithful
It’s a shame we’ve barely played them since the war. If we’d have regularly been in the same league it could have turned into a decent local rivalry and awayday.
First time I went there Reverand Bagshawe was stood in front of us, he heard quite a few words that aren't in the good book. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
It was quite comical really. It just needed circus music to accompany the police’s panicked response. Running around like headless chickens, helmets falling off and nearly running each other over in their vans.
For me it was a nice couple of hours watch being in a hospital bed with nowt to do. Typical preseason game, but a few bright moments and performances. Vaughan again impressed, really excited about him this season and worked well with Cox who also looked a step up in class from both Elder and Fleming, who seems to have gone backwards. Jarvis, Smith, Delap and Wood performed very well, and why Jarvis's goal was ruled out god only knows, I assume the ref thought it was gone out, but was nowhere near going out. I thought Timothee T looked a bit more assured and quite liked the way he was chipping the ball up to Tetteh who for the most part held the ball up well. Seri looks a bit out of sorts and the way Wood is playing he looks favourite to start in that position. Though early days I guess. Smith looks as if he may well be staking a claim to be in the squad this year, he certainly has benefited from his time at GY, and looks assured.
I remember the 'Humber Derby' about 1965 ish and it was a big deal in those days. One of my first away games was Grimsby and in those days we went via Humber Ferry, then train from New Holland. One memory is, as a lad, with the Lee's, Roy and John of Cavelier Club ( in later life) walking from bus station to the Pier and seeing a queue for the Ferry stretching the full length of Nelson Street and beyond, all dressed in black and amber, many with those old fashioned wooden rattles and of course they were sounding them off which echoed all around the Pier head. The crowd at Blundell Park was reported as 18,000 but the place was heaving, and I mean heaving. and the rivarly was real but not hostile in those days, a lot to do with the fishing heritage of us both. Remember too the battle of the centre forwards, they had Matt Tees, who I'm sure scored that day and we had Chris Chilton. Then our paths never crossed for years with GY having the better times with promotions and Wembley appeances whilst we finished up calling the receivers in. One home game is in my memory, towards the end of the season, mid week and GY deep in a relegation battle. they had a nasty little bastard, who could play, called George Cummings in midfield, and we beat them to virtually send them down. The atmosphere and rivalry was red hot that night.
