Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Bury 3rd with 79 points, Grimsby Town 17th with 56, 23 apart. Grimsby Town had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 11th in the league over the last five rounds against 17th overall. Per game in the league, Grimsby Town were scoring 0.98 and conceding 1.22, Bury 1.78 and 1.22, against a competition average of 1.28 goals per team per game.
A win had eluded Grimsby Town for 5 matches. From the last five rounds, Grimsby Town held 2 points of 15 and Bury 10.
The venue was Blundell Park in Cleethorpes, with room for 9,546 spectators. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.