The fish was bloody lovely...which was more than could be said of the miserable staff who acted as if they'd never been open on match day before and couldn't cope with more than a handful of customers. Customer service? What's that then? Here's some advice for you, you miserable cows, if you smile, people will leave you tips.

We plodded round the back of Blundell Park to find the away entrance and stood and stared. This was football as it used to be. We'd gone back 20 years in time. An old run down wooden and corregated iron stand with peeling paint made us feel like kids again. Boy, have we been spoilt in the Prem for the last few years. Here was a lovely old fashioned little ground that shows how desperately needed redistribution of money throughout the leagues is.

The staff were really friendly and pointed in the right direction to our seats right behind the goal. The City fans were in a boisterous mood and in good voice. And very very drunk. It's that seaside thing. They get there early and even if it's pissing it down decide a booze up on the beach is a good plan. There were a lot of toilet trips throughout the game!

A whopping 7000 filled the ground (They are just a small town in cleethorpes afterall apparently) and the City fans were soon singing "we've got one stand bigger than your ground." City were like a different team to that of Tuesday night. they were first out of the taps and looked hungry for it. Within 2 minutes we were 1-0 up when the ball went in off Jamie scowcroft at the other end of the park

"Who scored?" said everyone as we jumped up and down and looked forward to a double figure scoreline against relegation battlers. The tannoy announced it was Scowy.

Rogers went close to scoring and appeasing some of his critics with an outstanding freekick that was just tipped round the post by Grimsby Keeper, Coyne. Despite plenty of pressure in the first half we couldn't manage to get a second and to their credit Grimsby gave no sign that they were a team near the bottom of the league. They battled ferociously and played some nice attacking football in places, with former City kid Stuart Campbell causing us problems down the right wing..

Dickov was a total star again running after every ball, but the whole team wanted it today with Muzzy Izzet particularly on form. They looked fresh and determined.

The Grimsby fans were pretty silent all game until a few nearest us let their club down 5 minutes before half time by singing the ususal racist shite we're now used to.

But something amazing happened. A steward immediately went and spoke to the police and other stewards and pointed out one of the main guys standing up and doing it and the police ejected him from the ground! Well done Grimsby!

So far Mike Dean, the man in the middle, had been more than reasonable, giving most of the decisions to City much to Grimsby's anger. This was all to change in the second half.

Within minutes of the second half starting he had his card out and was wiggling it at Mad frank for a late challenge on Barnard.

Heaven only knows what happened next, but in an off the ball incident Frank obviously said something he shouldn't and City fans were absolutely gobsmacked when they realised that further up the field Frank had been given a straight red card!! Frank was going nowhere though and had to be pulled off Mr Dean. When the hell do players get red cards for swearing or dissent anymore? Hundreds of players swear every game...where's the bloody consistency???

The game totally changed. It inspired Grimsby to push forward and Dean then gave freekick after freekick to them. It looked like there would only be one winner now and within minutes the worst happened with Grimsby getting the equaliser. It lifted the Grimsby fans' spirits and the City fans responded with "You only sing when you're fishing".

Thankfully City didn't let it go completely belly up and with a few inteligent changes began to turn the game back round. Taking off Rogers & Banjy was a good move, and it was their replacements, Jordan Stewart & Andrew Impey that created chances and eventually the winner. Impey did brilliantly down the wing and into the corner to get a cross in out of nothing.

Muzzy Izzet, out on the edge of the box, made a spectacular overhead bicycle kick from 25 yards out .

From directly behind that side of the goal the ball seemed to fly towards us in slow motion. Without doubt one of the most amazing views of a goal we've ever seen as the overhead kick slammed into the back of the net directly in front of us and the City end went absolutely ballistic.

Grimsby didn't give up, bless them, and the last 15 minutes were nailbiting and not pleasant for us. We knew all the other teams at the top were winning and we needed the three points. the 3 minutes of added on time were a nightmare and the final whistle a huge relief!

City warm up at Blundell Park	It's grim oop North. Dark and cold and wet conditions