Saturday 9 July 2022
Cleethorpes Town (Away)
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In 1986 it was compulsory for football clubs to sign players who had the same hairstyle as their manager. Mike Lyons was forced to sign seven players with perms and is now a wood block engraver based in the Brecon Beacons.
In your weekend BOTB diary: murderous midsummer; Main Stand blues; a lot of retired dentists; and drunk tosser in the Ponny
Blundell Park bursting at the seams
Worried there's no space for you anymore at Blundell Park? The club have got it covered, report Pete Anderson and Mark Stilton
Let's hear it for the boys - part two
And finally, Cyril, the last of our leavers receive the Butcher treatment. Jamie Mack gets a pat on the back and there's a Glasgow kiss for Da Rose
Knowing us, knowing Mike Shelton
When he was a boy Durham Diary spent his time sitting in the ranks of the Pontoon Stand musing on the amusing witticisms of the old timers; then he left town, but not Town.
Let's hear it for the boys - part one
After the euphoria comes the elegies and eulogies for those we are losing. Tony Butcher turns his purple gaze to the flotsam and jetsam of the unretained.
How Cod Almighty is un-PC, and repartee
Whet your appetite for the new book on 1971-72 with our new quiz from Rob McIlveen, the author of Walking down the Grimsby Road
Town's start to this season has a bit in common with 1990-91. It turned out alright, just. Paul Thundercliffe and Pat Bell share their reminiscences