Nightmare in the Noughties ; Grimsby Town Went From Top of Division One in September 2001 to Starting 2010 with Their Football League Status Hanging by a Thread. Telegraph Soccer Writer David Pye Charts a Decade of Decay.

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ON January 3, 2000, Grimsby Town kicked off the new millennium with a 2-2 home draw with Sheffield United in the second-tier of English football looking towards the future and a bid to establish themselves as a team on the way up after their double Wembley triumph just 18 months earlier.

Ten years on and, despite a third Wembley visit and a play-off final in Cardiff in between, the Mariners drew at home to Bury to remain embedded in the bottom two of the basement division and in danger of a Football League exit.

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Nightmare in the Noughties ; Grimsby Town Went From Top of Division One in September 2001 to Starting 2010 with Their Football League Status Hanging by a Thread. Telegraph Soccer Writer David Pye Charts a Decade of Decay.

It's a dramatic fall from grace in a decade to forget for Town fans, who went from seeing the likes of Manchester City, Birmingham City and Bolton Wanderers regularly visit Blundell Park to entertaining Accrington Stanley, Morecambe and Dagenham & Redbridge.

So where exactly did it all go wrong for a club that comfortably punched above its weight at the top ...

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