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Grimsby have last laugh as tweet goes viral after surviving second-half fightback against MK Dons

Grimsby have the last laugh as their tweet goes viral after surviving a second-half fightback against MK Dons on Saturday.

The Mariners came away with a 3-2 victory over 10-man MK Dons at Stadium MK, first half goals from Kieran Green (9′), Jaze Kabia (23′), and Charles Vernam (29′) giving Grimsby a 3-0 lead with MK Dons’ Jon Mellish red-carded in the 36th minute.

MK Dons responded with an own goal by Grimsby’s George McEachran on 47 minutes and a stoppage-time strike from Connor Lemonheigh-Evans got MK’s second, but Grimsby held on despite a late missed opportunity from Jack Sanders to level the scoreline.

The result sees Grimsby up to 4th in the League Two table with 14 points from 7 games, MK Dons are 9th with 11 points from the same amount of games played.

Grimsby took the opportunity to taunt some of the Twitter users trying to give them stick. Come the final whistle, Grimsby tweeted ‘Job done! 😅’ and posted the scoreline graphic.

To which one user, @Aunter07, wrote: “You escaped today. See you next game day.” Grimsby responded with a daredevil dog meme, with @Aunter07 replying ‘Be there’.

Another user, @JahMir82068, wrote on Grimsby’s 3-0 half time tweet: “I will be back to this tweet when you bottle this lead in the second half!!”

Grimsby done another post, responding with ‘Morning, how did that go for you? 😉’ along with a photo of Vernam celebrating.

Grimsby fans also poked fun at MK Dons in the stands, with one fan shouting “You’re shit!” at 2-0 up, while many tweeted the “You’ve just been slapped by the fish!” meme.

An MK Dons vlogger recorded his frustrated reaction and the Grimsby limbs as well as the goals throughout the game. Why not have a watch at the following clips below…

Grimsby boss David Artell said, per MK Citizen: “We were worthy winners, and it shows how far we’ve come that we’re disappointed with how it’s ended.

“At 9am this morning, we’d have all taken three points and it’s what we leave with.

“Today was a learning curve of how to play against ten men, and we didn’t make a good fist of it. I felt we could have scored more, and Dons were always a threat from set-pieces. The game should never have ended the way it did.

“We were brilliant in the first-half and we let ourselves down in the second. It has not cost us in the end, but it’s good to learn how to play against ten.

“We know we can play good football, and we did in the first-half. We didn’t move the ball well enough in the second-half, we didn’t run as much. The best teams work the hardest and we didn’t do that as well in the second-half.

“You’ve got to give Dons credit, they changed shape and made it harder for us but even so, we’ve got to be much better.

“We were good value for the win, it’s a good three points.”

MK Dons head coach Paul Warne, per MK Citizen: “It was one of the lowest moments of my managerial career standing there at 3-0 down with a player coming off before half-time.

“I have to own the first-half. I went 4-4-2, I thought if our two centre-forwards put pressure on their centre-halves we might be able to stop them. We’ve worked on that all week, so that’s on me. Grimsby thoroughly deserved the lead at half-time.

“The shape was an issue but none of the goals came from the shape, but from missed tackles, not stopping crosses or people coming inside. What could go wrong did go wrong in the first-half.

“We weren’t throwing bottles or anything at half-time, we were calm and told them they cannot perform like that, they had to show integrity and effort.

“In the second-half, although we were a man down, it is very difficult to criticise anything any player did. The work ethic was there, the tackles were there, there was more aggression, we weren’t trying to be too intricate in the final third and we had more of a goal threat.

“I leave knowing we have the players to perform, but if we perform below our level, you just won’t win in this league. We let everyone down in the first 45 minutes.”

This is how fans reacted while Grimsby have last laugh as their tweet goes viral after surviving a second-half fightback against MK Dons…

@Varticoo: No way Man Utd fans are still beefing Grimsby 😂

@RaffaRants: United fans beefing Grimsby, could never be my club.

@ledwidgejack1: massive 3 points, knew they’d throw everything at it second half and 10 men or not the main thing is we held on. hope all the nigerian united fans are buzzing x

@CHolmesGTFC: No Africans in this thread then 😂

@danlowbridge: Will be many #MUFC Fans grinding their teeth right now. #GTFC getting a new rivalry with Man Utd is not something I had on bingo card at start of season.

@irishmariner88: I must say, I’m absolutely loving the meltdown of Africans on our clubs posts. Truly means your a big club when the ones who couldn’t point Grimsby or Manchester out on a map are trying to Rattle ya! 🤣 #GTFC

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