Grimsby Town

Overcome with joy, Max Crocombe dropped to his knees after fourth-tier minnows Grimsby Town stunned Southampton to reach the FA Cup quarterfinals.

The atmosphere tonight was incredible, what a fan base we have, could hear them signing all night long 🖤🤍 So proud, FA Cup quarter finals 😍😍😍— Max Crocombe (@Meeiix) By beating Southampton, Grimsby, who sit 16th in the fourth-tier League Two after eliminating Wrexham to earn promotion out of the National League last season, became the first club in FA Cup history to knock out five teams from a higher division in a single campaign. With Crocombe in goal, League Two strugglers Grimsby stunned bottom-placed Premier League side Southampton, a club ranked 64 places above them on the English football pyramid, 2-1 to secure a place in the FA Cup quarterfinals for the first time since 1939.

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Southampton's season went from bad to terrible on Wednesday when the Premier League's worst team exited the FA Cup at the hands of League Two Grimsby Town.

Grimsby Town manager Paul Hurst says his side will "go down in the history books" after a shock FA Cup victory at Southampton on Wednesday.

"We turned up, hoping for a miracle and to be in the quarter-finals is incredible. Look at what that means to the support. A pair of Gavan Holohan penalties at St.

Foul by Kyle Walker-Peters (Southampton). 90'+4' free_kick_won icon. Evan Khouri (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.

Adam Armstrong (Southampton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Carlos Alcaraz (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Mislav Orsic (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Gavan Holohan (Grimsby Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal. Romain Perraud (Southampton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Moussa Djenepo (Southampton) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Gavan Holohan (Grimsby Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Moussa Djenepo (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Romain Perraud (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Duje Caleta-Car (Southampton) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Theo Walcott (Southampton) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Lyanco (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.

Tottenham's away woes continued as Sheffield United marched on while it took Vincent Kompany's Burnley all of regulation to get past a 10-man Fleetwood Town ...

It's quite a moment for Kompany upcoming with Burnely already having one foot in the Premier League barring quite a collapse but it wasn't an easy road to get there. But for Sheffield United, the dream run continues and with a seven-point lead on an automatic promotion place, the team can afford to rotate in the Championship. Burnley needed the full 90 minutes before Connor Roberts grabbed the winner but it was a big one due to who Burnely will face in the next round. Kompany will return home for a date against Manchester City, his former club, and the Burnley squad will get to admire the statute of their boss outside of the Etihad. Sheffield United didn't do much better with only one shot finding the target but that's all it takes sometimes as Iliman Ndiaye's strike in the 79th minute made the difference. While that doesn't equate to promotion for them, the players on this side will be etched in Grimsby's history for years to come.

The lowest-ranked side left in the competition now has a shot at playing at Wembley.

Crocombe played two games for the All Whites in 2018 after coming through New Zealand’s Under-20 and U-23 squads as a youngster. However, that didn’t stop them setting up a showdown in the last eight with Brighton and a chance at heading to Wembley Stadium for a semifinal. “I’m so proud of this team and this football club.

“Everyone would say their football club is important to the area but I genuinely think it matters even more to a place like Grimsby,” Hurst tells The Athletic ...

The ownership change helped that and the fans, they were ready for the change and they won the lottery in getting two people from the area who might not live here any more but are still really attached and want the best for the club and the area.” I was here through the dark times of getting relegated and the club being in a bad sort of way so it’s nice for it to turn on its head and have this nice day. It’s not where I want to be or where the club wants to be but we knew we had to get out of it even though it would be extremely difficult. “Football is one of the few places where people come together in solidarity and if we can make it about that ostensibly, can we use the football club for changing the narrative on the town. We realise that the football has to be our first, second and third before we do a lot of the other stuff.” A win against Southampton should bring prize money to more than £500,000 alone before considering gate and TV revenue — a significant amount for a club in the fourth tier. “That’s about renewable energy and social enterprises and the other things that we are building away from the football club. Instead the plan since their takeover has consisted of two aims — improving the football and using the club to lift and inspire the town. In the kitchen, long-serving employee Di, described to The Athletic as the mother figure of the training ground — “if you need something, Di will know where it is” — is taking orders and making cups of tea and coffee. “Southampton have had a new manager come in, he changed his system at half-time on Saturday and we’re not quite sure what team he’s going to play because the reward of staying in the Premier League far outweighs beating Grimsby. Surpassing expectations and proving people wrong is second nature to the people of this coastal town in north east Lincolnshire and any length of time spent talking to co-owner Jason Stockwood is proof enough. The smell of bacon lingers in the air as players park up outside and head to the communal dining room for breakfast before training begins.

Thousands of fans made the long journey to the south coast to see a famous FA Cup win for the Mariners.

Go win the whole thing." "They and their fans were brilliant and totally deserved their place in the last 8." Mr Stockwood joked: "I got a note from the FA saying we have to pay for the VAR, I said if we have to spend £10,000 slip it in an envelope to the referee rather than VAR. "It's pretty surreal but it definitely gives us boys a lift, it did in the last round against Luton as well." Nigel Lowther, who inspired the first outing of the inflatable mascots in 1989 during his time as a sports reporter on the Grimsby Telegraph, told BBC Breakfast: "It was incredible to be in that crowd last night and a real privilege. "If we can be a catalyst and help everyone in the town walk a couple of inches taller, like we all will tonight, that's the role we want to play," he said.

According to reports, the League Two club tweeted a clip showing Mr Price, the disabled son of TV star Katie Price. It was said to have been accompanied with ...

UTM." We would like to wholeheartedly apologise for any offence it has caused. Enjoy your night, Town fans."

FA Cup heroes Grimsby Town have apologised this afternoon after being slated for using a video of Katie Price's son Harvey in the aftermath of their ...

They either truly believe in inclusiveness and championing disabilities or they tolerate making disabilities a joke.' While a further joined in with: 'This is in extremely poor taste. This was the offending post from Grimsby Town after the club's big Southampton FA Cup win