Grimsby Town F.C.

He said, we were inspired by...

Did Grimsby beat Manchester United last year? They're saying they were inspired by that.

That was part of the team talk.

Well, Grimsby can do it.

Why can't we? Well, they've just knocked out Arsenal.

Unbelievable stuff.

So, score one all at the end of regulation time.

They go straight to penalties.

Oh, loads have done it in the past, haven't they, McKenzie? The fishing, all that.

Grimsby remember them the FA Cup you used to have to blow up fish and things like that there has been I don't know if they're bringing it back

but I don't want to see I don't want

Everton going in with imagine you can do it then probably they can charge you for it at the moment but inflatable toffees games gone I quite like it do you like it I don't hate it go on you can be the captain you can have it

Yeah, I wish.

Chesterfield 5, Crewe 1 I mean Crewe were unbeaten until last week and they were 5-0 up at half time just some brilliant football the speed with which Paul Cookside were moving the ball around and almost everything they were hitting seemed to be going in the back of the net they hadn't won in any of the last three games either Grimsby hadn't won in an age and they won 4-1 at Gillingham some cracking goals in that as well but I think I've probably got to pick up Akron to Stanley who are just kind of rising under the radar about 5-0 at Rochdale Rochdale are obviously struggling you know managed to get a couple of wins in recent weeks but I think Akron I'm beating in seven now won three of the last five and again some brilliant brilliant goals again some comedy defended and goalkeeping by Rochdale But Accrington punished them emphatically.

I'd say of the three, I'll go off-brand and I'll go for Accrington because they're quietly, despite again being chosen among relegation favourites by most EFL onlookers, John Doolan's getting a tune out of his players and they're up to ninth.

Yeah, some really big wins.

You'd expect it from someone like Spurs.

You'd expect it from someone like Man United, as we saw last season against Grimsby.

But just not from this Arsenal team, which is usually so professional and so switched on.

And even when they don't play well, they just find a way to win a game.

Yeah, it's a remarkable result, isn't it? Obviously, it took penalties in the end, but it was a great performance by Fleetwood overall.

It reminded me of, I was at Grimsby last season, a League Two side knocking out Manchester United, and you sort of thought that was the biggest upset, and here we go again.

So, you know, credit to the League Cup that it still produces these kind of occasions.

And yeah, I suppose scrutiny...

You never know.

What's interesting is that I've spoken to, as we both have over the course of my much longer life than yours, I've spoken to a lot of professional footballers from people who applied their trade at Grimsby and Plymouth.

to people like Gary Lineker, people who played at the highest level.

We don't get to speak to so many current ones now because I'm not involved as much in the media, but even so, they're guarded so much more now than before.

And it looked like everybody there had an amazing time.

So my cousins come back and said, it's the best away trip he's ever done.

And yeah, it wasn't a Grimsby in 1997.

Fair weather, fair weather.

No, definitely not, you know, and it just goes, that spine of that team that we've been talking about there, you know, Dominic Samuel, he's a million pound player when he was at Blackburn, you know, and, you know, he spent time at Gillingham as well, and another one, Jake Hessenthaler, you know, again, he's a local lad, isn't he, you know, from the Medway towns, and, you know, we know the type of player his dad, Andy Hessenthaler, was for Gillingham and Watford before those years, you know, he was a proper... and Jake Hessenthaler has followed that mantle.

He had experience in the Football League with Grimsby as well.

yeah you know experience there but then you know they've got the likes of ollie box and gene kennedy that have come in as well you know they've been impacting games probably not only box not so much but definitely gene gene kennedy you know he got got a good goal um down at tunbridge when they won that game down there um yeah and you know it's just getting those sort of experienced players and those younger legs as such you know to to be your focal point going forward and get the goals and you know they're certainly performing at the moment i mean even the fact that they've played less games than everybody else, I think they're still the top scorers in the league now, or certainly up there, so it's certainly a formula that's working for them at the moment, and like we've said, just like the team and players individually, especially strikers, you hit a purple patch and everything goes for you, and they go in from all angles, don't they, when you're in that Rich Fader form, and that's the wave they're riding at the moment, but as I say, It's going to be interesting for them going forward because they've got a couple of tough games coming up.

They travelled to Mainhead on Saturday, previous game, so we don't know how they got on there.