This is just wonderful from HatScarfShirt on Grimsby Town, his grandad and his final match...
We didn’t know it then, but Grimsby Town v Torquay United, on Saturday 23 April 2022, would be the last match my grandad ever saw at Blundell Park. And I was there with him.
Mesothelioma is a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. It’s a cancer caused by the negligence of people who didn’t care about workers. The negligence of people who didn’t care that one day I would have to kneel next to my grandad and through my tears be careful when hugging him so as not to pull out his oxygen tubes while I said goodbye and told him how much I loved him.
I sat there next to him, my arm wrapped around his shoulders trying to protect him from the whipping wind that comes in from the river Humber. He refused to take my woolly hat or my gloves and sat as stoically as ever simply enjoying his football in his flat cap. About eight days after that game my grandad was taken into hospital, where he stayed for a couple of weeks before making the choice to go home. He listened to the Grimsby v Notts County play-off match on the radio from his bed on May 23, delighting in the extra-time winner that took Town to the next round.
My screams when Grimsby kept on scoring last-minute extra-time winners scared Bo and only the arms of my life’s love were strong enough to soak up all the tears as wished more than anything I’d have been in that stadium watching that trophy being lifted with him.
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