Merely in getting to this stage of the FA Cup, Grimsby had set records. They arrived at the quarter-finals having already beaten five teams from divisions above them to get this far. In the first round, they put five goals past League One promotion challengers Plymouth Argyle. In the fourth round, they held Championship play-off challengers Luton Town to a draw away from home and then wiped the floor with them in the replay.
But the actual chances fell just about exclusively to Brighton, a steady downpour of quarter-chances, half-chances and more. Mitoma’s miss from close range was probably the pick of the bunch, but they had the chances to put the game well beyond Grimsby’s reach before half-time and didn’t. By the time the interval came around they still led by just the one.
Five minutes later he had the ball in the net again, only for the goal to be disallowed for offside by the narrowest of margins. With twenty minutes to play, he ambled into a space in the centre of an increasingly stretched-looking Grimsby defence and drilled in a third. Late goals from Solly March and Kauru Mitoma added a fourth and fifth.
That wasn’t really quite the point. The point was a celebration of a cup run which began several months ago, and a celebration of a football club which has had its share of difficult times over the years, including two spells in the National League since the turn of the century. For a club that spent most of the 1990s playing in the second tier, that fall was difficult to take, especially when coupled with a frequently fractious relationship with the club’s owner.
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