Benjamin Hall

Left Forward - Grimsby Town U20
7 Sep 2036
Sunday
Process

Marked for Benjamin Hall

438 Edition

The Grimsby Town Herald

18 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Benjamin Hall damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

The small margins put Grimsby Town out

Out, 0‑3 to Aston Villa, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Jonas Winklhofer

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The terraces

A cup embarrassment at Aston Villa follows Grimsby Town home

0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Market

Kauã Bahia is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Grimsby Town is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

No end in sight to Grimsby Town's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Grimsby Town has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Noah Visbeen in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Grimsby Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Grimsby Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Henry Cartwright is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Ryan Oné’s goal not enough for Grimsby Town

Ryan Oné scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Southampton, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

In brief

Back issues
437 Edition

The Grimsby Town Herald

11 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Benjamin Hall out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Grimsby Town lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Kauã Bahia hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Grimsby Town can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Njabulo Hlongwane is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Grimsby Town is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Grimsby Town

Kevor Palumets and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Emmanuel Boansi

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

A bad afternoon for Grimsby Town against West Bromwich Albion

0‑1 to West Bromwich Albion, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A row about effort at Grimsby Town

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emmanuel Boansi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Anthony Morgan out for 34 days

The medical room confirms 34 days on the sidelines for Anthony Morgan, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market

Talks stall between Grimsby Town and Noah Visbeen

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout No hiding place for Giorgos Vrakas
  • The dugout George Cook has become a man the manager trusts