GRIMSBY TOWN 4 CITY 1
League Division 2
13th April 1985
attendance 8,362
Scorers
City Simpson(71)
Grimsby Drinkell(36), Lund(57 & 61), Cumming(84)
Ref A Ward
City Williams, Lomax, May, Clements, McCarthy, Phillips, Simpson, Reid, Tolmie, Power, Kinsey – sub D Beckford(45)
Grimsby Felgate, Seagraves, Crombie, Hine, Nicholl, Moore, Ford, Lund, Drinkell,, Henshaw, Cumming – sub Emson
FROM AN ARTICLE BY JOHN MADDOCKS, PUBLISHED IN THE CITY PROGRAMME 14TH APRIL 1990
Manager Billy McNeill was forced to ring the changes for the visit to Grimsby Town, with disastrous results. Nicky Reid took over
from Baker, Clements reappeared in the back four, and Tolmie replaced Beckford.
Kinsey should have beaten Felgate early on but finished tamely. A goal would have boosted Blue confidence but the miss only
increased Grimsby’s. Drinkell opened the scoring by finishing off Hine’s centre and City brought on Beckford for Lomax at
the interval. Lund then put a brace of goals past Williams, making Clements and McCarthy look like novices in the process. Paul
Simpson, the only real threat to Grimsby, volleyed home a consolation goal after 71 minutes but even this was wiped out six minutes
from the end by Cumming.
There remained a mere five games in which to get the train back on the tracks and to push ahead towards Division One.