LET me take you back to when life was black and white. Not just the Mariners kit, but even many of the films at the local cinemas all over Grimsby. When trawlers black smoke hung over the entrance to the Humber, short-trousered lads played on bomb-sites, and a game at Blundell Park against local rivals Lincoln would fetch in well over 20,000 fans to a Blundell Park where smoke from 15,000 Woodbines mingled with steam from the engines on the line to Cleethorpes behind the Main Stand.

Up in the Boardroom was one Mr Arthur Drewry. A man of whom, the Glasgow Herald said "Few people have done as much for the game as Mr Drewry in post-war years…."

In later years he was Chairman of the Football Association, President of the English League, and unbelievably President of FIFA, the very pinnacle of football!

He received a CBE in 1953 for his services to football, and Luxembourg awarded him the Chevalier de la Couronne de Chene.

But our story this week is of his role as THE England selector for the last time England played the USA in the World Cup Finals ….

To be continued …..

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