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League Two Table
| P | GD | Pts | ||
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| 1 | Bromley | 33 | +22 | 65 |
| 2 | Cambridge Utd | 33 | +22 | 63 |
| 3 | Notts County | 33 | +20 | 61 |
| 4 | Swindon | 34 | +16 | 61 |
| 5 | MK Dons | 32 | +27 | 58 |
| 6 | Crewe | 34 | +10 | 53 |
| 7 | Chesterfield | 33 | +9 | 53 |
| 8 | Salford | 31 | +3 | 52 |
| 9 | Walsall | 31 | +7 | 50 |
| 10 | Colchester | 32 | +14 | 49 |
| 11 | Grimsby | 32 | +8 | 49 |
| 12 | Barnet | 33 | +5 | 47 |
| 13 | Accrington Stanley | 32 | +3 | 46 |
| 14 | Fleetwood Town | 32 | +1 | 44 |
| 15 | Oldham | 31 | +4 | 42 |
| 16 | Gillingham | 32 | -1 | 41 |
| 17 | Tranmere | 33 | -12 | 35 |
| 18 | Shrewsbury | 33 | -20 | 35 |
| 19 | Cheltenham | 32 | -21 | 35 |
| 20 | Bristol Rovers | 33 | -24 | 30 |
| 21 | Crawley Town | 34 | -21 | 28 |
| 22 | Barrow | 32 | -17 | 27 |
| 23 | Harrogate Town | 34 | -27 | 26 |
| 24 | Newport County | 33 | -28 | 24 |
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| GTFC - not us! |
Town Hooligans? Surely Not!
By: Rob Sedgwick
Date: 29/11/2010
GRIMSBY Town have received the second highest number of banning orders of any club in England in the past year. Supporters of GTFC surpassed clubs with a notorious hooligan element in the past such as Cardiff, Millwall, Leeds and West Ham. Only Sheffield Wednesday had more supporters banned from watching the game.
What makes it worse is the percentage of supporters who are banned, which are not included in the figures just released by the home office, but can be easily worked out. Sheffield Wednesday averaged over 16,000 last season, but Grimsby averaged almost 4500 which means that 1 in 100 Grimsby Town supporters have been banned! Presumably those banned are not the only ones causing trouble, but it would not seem unreasonable to presume fro these figures that something like 1 in 30 GTFC fans is a hooligan!
| Sheffield Wednesday | 56 |
| Grimsby Town | 45 |
| West Ham United | 45 |
| Cardiff City | 44 |
| Southampton | 43 |
| Manchester United | 36 |
| Leeds United | 34 |
| Newcastle United | 33 |
| Arsenal | 29 |
| Chelsea | 27 |
| Huddersfield Town | 26 |
| Birmingham City | 24 |
| Liverpool | 24 |
| Swansea City | 24 |
| Hull City | 22 |
| Nottingham Forest | 22 |
| Tottenham Hotspur | 18 |
| Portsmouth | 17 |
| Barnsley | 16 |
| Charlton Athletic | 16 |
| Millwall | 16 |
| Port Vale | 16 |
| Swindon Town | 16 |
| Blackburn Rovers | 15 |
| Bradford City | 15 |
| Sheffield United | 14 |
| Wolverhampton W | 14 |
| Everton | 13 |
| Middlesbrough | 13 |
| Rotherham United | 13 |
| Derby County | 12 |
| Manchester City | 12 |
| Chesterfield | 11 |
| Rangers | 11 |
| West Bromwich Alb. | 10 |
| Aston Villa | 9 |
| Bolton Wanderers | 9 |
| Bristol Rovers | 9 |
| Colchester United | 8 |
| Bristol City | 7 |
| Leicester City | 7 |
| Luton Town | 7 |
| Newport County | 7 |
| Oldham Athletic | 7 |
| QPR | 7 |
| Stoke City | 7 |
| Blackpool | 6 |
| Exeter City | 6 |
| Mansfield Town | 6 |
| Oxford United | 6 |
| Tranmere Rovers | 6 |
| Burnley | 5 |
| Chester | 5 |
| Crewe Alexandra | 5 |
| Northampton Town | 5 |
| Plymouth Argyle | 5 |
| Southend United | 5 |
| Aldershot Town | 4 |
| Brentford | 4 |
| Carlisle United | 4 |
| Ipswich Town | 4 |
| Scunthorpe United | 4 |
| Sunderland | 4 |
| Torquay United | 4 |
| Bury | 3 |
| Crystal Palace | 3 |
| Fleetwood Town | 3 |
| Norwich City | 3 |
| Walsall | 3 |
| Wigan Athletic | 3 |
| Barnet 0 Barrow | 2 |
| Bournemouth | 2 |
| Cambridge United | 2 |
| Lincoln City | 2 |
| Preston North End | 2 |
| Rochdale | 2 |
| Shrewsbury Town | 2 |
| Utd of Manchester | 2 |
| Watford | 2 |
| York City | 2 |
| Brighton & Hove Alb. | 1 |
| Coventry City | 1 |
| Fulham | 1 |
| Hereford United | 1 |
| Kidderminster H. | 1 |
| Morecambe | 1 |
| Notts County | 1 |
| Peterborough United | 1 |
| Staines Town | 1 |
| Stockport County | 1 |
| Wimbledon | 1 |
| Wrexham | 1 |
| Wycombe Wanderers | 1 |
| Accrington Stanley | 0 |
| Ajax | 0 |
| Bangor City | 0 |
| Boston United | 0 |
| Burton Albion | 0 |
| Celtic | 0 |
| Cheltenham Town | 0 |
| Curzon Ashton | 0 |
| Dag’m & Redbridge | 0 |
| Darlington | 0 |
| Doncaster Rovers | 0 |
| Gillingham | 0 |
| Hartlepool United | 0 |
| Hinckley United | 0 |
| Kettering Town | 0 |
| Leyton Orient | 0 |
| Macclesfield Town | 0 |
| Milton Keynes Dons | 0 |
| Reading | 0 |
| Redditch United | 0 |
| Salisbury City | 0 |
| Stalybridge Celtic | 0 |
| Stevenage | 0 |
| Telford United | 0 |
| Yeovil Town | 0 |
That does seem hard to believe. Apart from Lincoln nobody we played last season we really "hate", with the possible exception of Chesterfield. There is virtually no trouble at hardly any of our games that I go to, and I have always believed most of them to be overpoliced. I rarely go to pubs before games but when I do the atmosphere seems to be friendly enough. The Burton game probably contributed a large number of those banned, but I presume that the individuals concerned (and their friends) attend other games as well.
As someone who started watching football in the early 80s, the amount of trouble at games is minute compared to what it was then, but I find it hard to believe that our own Mariners are the worst club in England in the small amount of trouble which remains!
What do you think? Are Grimsby fans really the biggest hooligans in English football? Or maybe Town wannabe hooligans are just not very good at it, and tend to get caught, compared to their counterparts elsewhere?
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