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Archbishop blesses football club... and they get their first win in 25 games

08/03/2010 14:00:00


According to the Grimsby Telegraph:

Divine intervention may have played a part in the change in fortune for Grimsby Town FC – after the club received the blessing of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Grimsby Town, who are firmly in the football league relegation zone, hadn't won a game since September 19 last year until their 3-0 win over Shrewsbury on Saturday, which coincided with the Archbishop's blessing. I haven't yet been able to discover exactly what form this blessing took, and the Grimsby Telegraph journalist aside I've found only one forum poster who thinks it was significant, but apart from that the evidence is overwhelming.

You can read more about the Archbishop of Canterbury's visit on the Grimsby Telegraph site (Hundreds flock to see Archbishop of Canterbury, and the more interesting Archbishop's visit - video) but much of the report is only available in the newspaper. The Diocese of Lincoln is promising pictures at some point today, whist the Archbishop of Canterbury site is promising podcasts from Tuesday, but in the meantime there is a news item from last week: Archbishop's pastoral visit to Diocese of Lincoln.


We need an experiment to investigate this. Could we get the Archbishop to bless one team in a match and Richard Dawkins to tell the other that God probably doesn't exist?

Frugal Dougal | 09/03/2010 00:06:32




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