Cod Almighty | Writers
Get with the {expletive deleted} programme
26 April 2025
The grass is greener, the roof's been fixed and home is where the heart is. Ignore them, let's talk about us.
Get with the Port Vale Programme
21 April 2025
Potter through to three o'clock with a pot pourri of Port Vale incidents and accidents. Get with the Port Vale Programme is your late Easter egg
Get with the Salford programme
18 April 2025
The celebrity circus was in town and the Class of '92? You're in the wrong place my friends. But which is the dirty old town these days?
Get with the Harrogate programme
12 April 2025
We're rarely happy in the home of the Harrogate Hotspurs, where red kites flutter, away fans mutter and many a Mariners ex has the hex on Town.
Get with the Crewe Programme
1 April 2025
Who are Crewe, who-who, who-who? Do you really wanna know? Tommy Forecast, undead pigeons and a prescient prediction of the shape of things to come
Get with the Colchester Programme
28 March 2025
More Mariners allusions and delusions about dem darn Colcestrians. Come bask in the afterglow of a ranting Buckley and a flotilla of fleeting Frenchmen
Get with the Notts County programme
24 March 2025
There's never a dull moment when Town play the simple Piemen. Except when there is. never mind, no-one's seething John, not now.
Get with the Tranmere Programme
11 March 2025
Breaking News: it is scientifically proven that in any article about Tranmere you are always only six sentences away from a Half Man Half Biscuit reference
Get With The Fleetwood Programme
9 March 2025
Uncle Sid, Captain Pugwash, Jamie Vardy, Richard Brodie, but at least their fish is as cheap as chips. Come waste your time with memories of Town v Fleetwood: a short history of nothing
Get with the Walsall Programme
8 March 2025
You might have to Google Walsall, but you should never have to Google Alan Buckley.
Get with the Cheltenham Programme
28 February 2025
Dr Suess's turning in his grave as all thoughts turn to the Spa down the road that isn't as cheap as chips but, unfathomably, wins awards for its fish.
Get with the Gillingham Programme
22 February 2025
It's the time, it's the place, it has emotion, but sometimes it's the way we are feeling when Gillingham roll into Town. Gillingham, it makes you think.
Get with the Doncaster Programme
15 February 2025
It's the dreaded Donny day of destiny again and there's only one question "Can they make Grimsby like they made Doncaster". And would we like it?
Get with the Chesterfield Programme
9 February 2025
Follow us down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has rarely shone: those days where Town are inspired against occasionally insipid Spireites.
Get with the Bromley programme
1 February 2025
What about the Bromley contingent? Tales of Charlie Bucket, 70s pop rounds and some perspective on travels to Fat Andyland
Get with the Barrow programme
25 January 2025
Town away, what to do, what to do? Meander down memory lane with some more amusing Mariner musings on the Barrowboys to while away the day
Get with the Sheffield Wednesday programme
11 January 2025
The hazy, crazy, balmy days of August and Town playing Big Wednesday on a Tuesday. Words appeared in the programme. Here they are.
Get with the Bradford programme
3 January 2025
Here it is, the missing link! Here's what you would have read in the Bradford programme way back in August had it been published.
Get with the Accrington programme
31 December 2024
This year's matchday programme has your own, your very own CA as a space-filling content provider. It's time to release the Director's Cut for our friend Stan
Get with the Programme
23 December 2024
This year's matchday programme has your own, your very own CA as a space-filling content provider. It's time to release the Director's Cut.
Not GY Evening Telewag
29 November 2024
News from Swindon of ghosts and goblins should be welcomed as encouraging by Robins fans writes Geoff Trabant
News (that never happened) October 2021
21 October 2021
Blundell Park bursting at the seams makes GTFC fans a target for Lincoln in this month's News (that never happened)
News (that never happened)
4 December 2020
Ollie has a selection headache in the return of News (that never happened)
Following iFollow
15 September 2020
Your tips on watching a game using iFollow
Cod Almighty - A Statement by The Board of Governors
9 January 2018
Cod Almighty hasn't been the funniest lately, but we put on record our confidence in the editorial team
What if… George Tweedy had not had flu
25 December 2017
It's Christmas 1968. You are a young Town fan. Your excitement at finding a football annual under the tree increases when you see an article about Grimsby.
They was robbed
28 September 2014
Wilkinson's Goodison winner features prominently in your memories of Town acts of match-winning larceny
Where were you when Dobbin scored?
17 October 2013
Where were you when Dobbin scored? Recollections of a famous day at St James' Park
Kevin Moore: your memories and tributes
30 April 2013
Cod Almighty readers pay tribute to a Grimsby legend
Graham 'Basil' Rathbone: your memories
10 January 2012
Share in the memories of other supporters, and contribute your own
John Tondeur: 25 years on the airwaves
24 March 2009
Your tributes to Radio Humberside commentator John Tondeur in his 25th year of broadcasting
Remembering the good times: the best of Alan Buckley
16 September 2008
Your tributes to Alan Buckley
The candidates for the BP hotseat - assessed
16 September 2008
We give you the run-down on the favourites for the vacancy of manager at Blundell Park
Purple shouty man: Rochdale (h)
12 October 2007
Purple shouty man: Keepin' it real(ly angry)
Purple shouty man: Hereford United (h)
29 September 2007
Standfirst
Purple shouty man: Stockport County (h)
15 September 2007
Grrrr. Grrrr. Grrrr. In technocolor.
Purple shouty man: Macclesfield (h)
25 August 2007
What's purple and shouts? Purple shouty man!
Purple shouty man: Notts County (h)
11 August 2007
He's purple. He's a man. He's very, very angry. He's purple shouty man
Famous Grimsby peeps
9 May 2006
It's Great Grimsby Day. High time we updated our list of famous Grimsby people. Who have we missed?
What tradition?
1 March 2006
An article from Slade's first spell questioning Town's 'tradition' of passing football is curiously timely
Player profile: Anthony Williams
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Anthony Williams
Player profile: John McDermott
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: John McDermott
Player profile: Simon Ramsden
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Simon Ramsden
Player profile: Tony Crane
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Tony Crane
Player profile: Justin Whittle
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Justin Whittle
Player profile: Jason Crowe
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Jason Crowe
Player profile: Michael Reddy
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Michael Reddy
Player profile: Andy Parkinson
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Andy Parkinson
Player profile: Stacy Coldicott
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Stacy Coldicott
Player profile: Graham Hockless
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Graham Hockless
Player profile: Paul Fraser
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Paul Fraser
Player profile: David Soames
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: David Soames
Player profile: Terry Fleming
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Terry Fleming
Player profile: Ronnie Bull
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Ronnie Bull
Player profile: Thomas Pinault
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Thomas Pinault
Player profile: Rob Jones
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Rob Jones
Player profile: Martin Gritton
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Martin Gritton
Player profile: Terrell Forbes
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Terrell Forbes
Player profile: Dean Gordon
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Dean Gordon
Player profile: Darren Mansaram
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Darren Mansaram
Player profile: Ashley Sestanovich
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Ashley Sestanovich
Player profile: Greg Young
1 July 2004
2004-05 player profile: Greg Young
The contenders
11 February 2004
Our views on the potential contenders for the job of manager at GTFC
Take out a Grimsby & Cleethorpes Footballer Mortgage
5 February 2004
You'll be glad you did
Season Preview: 2003-04
1 August 2003
You gave your views on how you saw the season ahead
Cod Almighty style guide
1 January 2002
This shouldn't be on the front page!