Cod Almighty | Article

by Alistair Wilkinson

9 June 2025

As we count down to the fixture list The Bard of Blundell Park relieves our frowns, taking us back to the beautiful sparkling spa waters of Harrogate, in Yorkshire, with a lyrical picture postcard of the Serene One's finest few seconds. 

Green gave that ball life for 3.4 seconds

And yet it will be there forever,

Town's Icarus, soaring into legends

A waxing, never melting endeavour.

Its measured arc an engineer's blueprint,

Calculated, prepared, executed,

An audacious spark from studded flint

Leaving Harrogate-yellow burnt, muted.

Not bad for an unwanted CDM,

This Brexit player turned midfield maestro -

Who was first humoured with Hurstian phlegm -

Stockton lad, Grimsby man, BP hero.

That goal makes us dream the impossible

And moves myth into something credible.