An excerpt from a 10-part series exploring the unique appeal of Grimsby Town's Blundell Park stadium, highlighting the author's personal connection to the seaside and football.
You might think it's weird to give Grimsby Town 's Blundell Park such lofty status. In 10 parts, Daniel Storey tells you why it's not. When I told people in interviews or friends in pubs that Blundell Park was the ground that I was most looking forward to visiting this season, there were a few eyebrow raises. But in that weird hammock between Christmas and New Year you must fill your days with things that make you deeply content, and that means driving up the A46 and beyond.
I wanted my final match of 2024 to be somewhere I’d not been before, some place I knew I’d love from everything I’d read and heard. I wanted Grimsby, and if that seems weird to you then I’m about to tell you – in 10 parts – why it shouldn’t. I was born and brought up just about as far away from the sea as you can get in England. The seaside was a distant place reserved for long, sticky days out in summer, often with grandparents. You had brilliant fun and then you had to decide whether to take your new shoes to the sea and get them wet or wash your feet, get sand on them again and thus put sand in your new shoes. I’ve always loved looking at the sea, being near it with no obligation to go on or in. I try to go to the Isles of Scilly every year and the happiest days of my working life were spent in the. There’s something about growing up in a landlocked county in the centre of an island that makes staring into that great expanse particularly soothing. I was football-obsessed as a kid, perhaps no more than many others around me but yet still intensely overpowered by it. Stickers, magazines, VHS recordings, going to matches with my Mum, three-and-in on the field, stingers, that weird thing they brought out that was effectively a small net to keep a football in and a string that you held so you could do kick-ups forever because you were controlling where the ball went with your hand. You get the picture. The point is that the two never crossed ove
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