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The one with the all the links
26 November 2003
Reality cheque
Them letters disagreeing with me right,
they'll be sorry when we either lose to Peterborough or go through and draw a
tiny team and lose to them. Everyone expects us to get a big team and get the massive
gate receipts but I bet we get crap teams and crap gate receipts. Going out in
the second round is worse than falling at the first hurdle. By getting past QPR
we have give the fans hope that we are 1 game away from playing Liverpool/Arsenal/Man
Utd whereas we are actually 1 game away from being drawn against Torquay.
Mat Hare
via email
Geoff Who-ghes?
Why are you so mean to Geoff Hughes? I'm too intimidated to write anything more.
Dylan
via email
The harpsichord maker or
the artist? Actually, I just reread
last week's letters and saw what
you were referring to. I can only apologise and try to explain that the stand-in
Letters Ed was having a bad day. [Letters Ed]
Stocking filler
In my local W.H.Smith is the "Match Complete Book Of Football". I
checked the index at the back of the book, and under G is there 'Grimsby'?
Is there bollocks. Complete, my arse.
Steveoh
via email
Sweaty tigers
Dave Chambers's letter about Hull and Peter Taylor is bang on the
money. It led me to think are Scotland the national equivalent of Hull? Nobody
can understand their supporters. Lots of overly expensive players.
Lifting the hopes of their supporters with little glimpses, only to have
the door slammed in their face just as they think they are about to go
through.
Dave Marker
via email
Stick a stamp on it
Rich Dawson you mad impetuous fool you. The
link between successful Town FA Cup runs and D-List celebrities was good but
surely the other part of the link is missing this year. The weighty Miss Gee has
no connection with the Post Office. There was the singing POSTMAN and Della Draper
nee Dolan opened a philatelic counter in the POST OFFICE. Maybe Ms Gee could help
the local scouts deliver Christmas Cards before slipping back into obscurity.
Mr. B.L. Ackandwhite - Barmy
via email
Batting for the chimp
Matt Hare's system predicted
a draw:
"But Town should be leaving Griffin Park with a point if my system is
to be trusted. In fact my system rates the match at bang on 0. Draws
don't come much more definite than that."
Does Matt still trust his system?
Gary Andrews
via email
Mat's answers: "Where on the site do I spell my name with two 't's, eh?
Where? Nowhere, that's fucking where. Yes, Mat does still trust his system.
Read the tips, I get about 60% of them right. Overall the system is 43% accurate
and getting better as time goes on. I'm not binning a system just because it gets
one result wrong. Although the issue of draws is one area I may be looking to
improve over Christmas."
Deep philosophy
Why is it these days that everyone has to be an expert rather than just
an enthusiastic amateur?
Charlie Moore
via email
I dunno. Anyone know? Please have an answer?
[Letters Ed]
Media blackout
The division two round up in yesterday's Observer neglected to mention
- as seems to be the case every Sunday - Town's result. Is this some
sort of north-south thing (a bit like the way Look North is split into
seperate east and west editions) or is it just an attempt by the media to
ignore Town until we disappear into obscurity?
Nigel Parker
via email
Been a Town fan long, Nige? The media ignoring us is nothing new, mate. And it's not regional. Even Look North and Goals on Sunday try their best to do it?
[Letters Ed]
What a load of cobblers
Do any of your readers remember Ian Atkins? Atkins was the dour manager
of Northampton when Town squared up to them in the play-off final. Not
a particularly likeable gent, moulding his teams into an expression of
his dourness. Dull his teams might be, but I've just found out that
Atkins is currently in charge of Oxford. Oxford are currently top of
division three, one point ahead of the continually big-spending and
big-failing Hull City. They might be dour but they're not exactly buying their
way out of the divison. And pegging Hull back into any position below
first place is exciting enough for me.
Another glance at the tables shows that level on points with Hull are
Doncaster. Rovers have spent little money but have big hearts. There are
some things money can't buy, Peter Taylor.
Dave Chambers
via email
Odd-shaped balls
Having endured the rugby union world cup final on Saturday I had to
laugh when the referee apparently gave the last minute penalty that sent
the game to extra time as he felt England had been gobbing off all
throughout the match. "This will teach them a lesson." If only they did that
in football.
And what is the difference between off-side in rugby union and
football?
Donna Howard
via email
Do you really want to know, Donna? [Letters Ed]
Monkey business
Has Coco been offered a column in the Guardian? I ask as last Saturday,
it suggested Brentford to beat Town as one of its tips of the weekend,
on the grounds that Brentford "won the corresponding fixture 3-1 last
season". I guess he meant the corresponding fixture six years ago, when
Town must have had at least two of the same players (Unless Butterfield
was in for Macca) in the line up, so a very reliable form guide. I guess he got the score right.
Pat Bell
via email
As yet Coco is not writing for the Guardian. But he does take bookings for weddings, christenings and bar-mitzvahs [Letters Ed]
Iconography
Would like to report two close encounters with cultural/historical
icons of the twentieth centrury.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: family in tow, walking through Kings Cross
station on a Sunday evening.
Carl Putnam from Cud: receving social security payments at a post
office in Leeds.
Neither has - as far as I know - any connections with Grimsby;
comparisons between parts of the town and Siberian wastelands being purely
coincidental. However, Cud once played the Winter Gardens, as I recall.
Dylan
via email
A good bagful of letters there then. Thanks. But don't stop. Keep it up. You know the score. Oh yeah, we got loads more letters than this this week, but all the others referred to the famous peeps article thing. Any letters on this subject have had their material added to that page.
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