As the floodlights illuminated the rows of chimneys on the terraced streets around Blundell Park there was a tense second half ahead.
One-nil up, the home supporters were desperate to hang on to the win as they fight for survival in League Two.
It has been like this for generations of football fans in Grimsby – a club founded in 1878 – the ground has been home since 1899.
A proper old-school venue – there are fewer and fewer places like this now in English football.
Although it is actually in neighbouring Cleethorpes, the club is a Grimsby institution.
The two towns are being merged into one constituency for the next general election, with both the Conservatives and Labour desperate to win it.
There is no shortage of political opinions before kick-off.
Sean Gifford was opening up the Snack Shack kiosk behind the Pontoon Stand.
He quickly identified what he believes is the biggest problem in British politics.
“It’s the narrative. Do you believe the narrative of what any politician tells you? I don’t.”
He added: “It’s being able to speak one’s mind, as opposed to always toeing the party line and making sure that the truth is spoken without any spin doctor, without any PR machine behind it.
“People just cannot speak the truth for fear of backlash.”
He isn’t just disillusioned with one or two characters in politics, it’s all of them, and he is not sure who can solve it.
“It takes somebody of almost Churchillian stature, and where’s the Churchillian prime minister of the future? I just don’t see one.”
On the hotdog stand on the other side of the ground, Kirsty and Kylie were lining up their foot-long Lincolnshire sausages ready for the half-time rush.
Hot dog seller Kirsty Johnson
Kirsty is also frustrated by politicians. She told Sky News: “I think it needs someone with balls who…
