Match Day Thread Grimsby v Hull City

[rovertiger]

Norfolk Broads Rover,Norfolk Broads!!

Ahhh right Ric, anything South of the 'Umber and i'm buggered.

 

[Cityzen]

Ahhh right Ric, anything South of the 'Umber and i'm buggered.

If Vern reads that he will be straight across the Bridge.

 

[rovertiger]

If Vern reads that he will be straight across the Bridge.

 

[John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.]

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.

I was at that game, it was packed. What memory sticks in my mind was a fish Merchant called Jim Metcalf was behind us and had a trilby hat, and someone pinched it and it was being tossed about the way end. Funny how small things stick in the mind.

 

[nbetiger]

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.

I've seen a video online of a grimsby fan getting arrested and police running around in the background