{"id":374674,"date":"2025-08-26T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374674\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:20:12","slug":"match-preview-of-grimsby-town-v-man-utd-27-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374674\/","title":{"rendered":"Match preview of Grimsby Town v Man Utd | 27 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PREVIOUS MEETINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It would be an understatement to say that meetings between the Reds and Grimsby are rare, with the last such encounter having occurred over 75 years ago in March 1948.<\/p>\n<p>That was the last of just 37 games played against each other in the two clubs&#8217; histories, stretching back to the first match between the sides in 1894, when we were still known as Newton Heath.<\/p>\n<p>In head-to-head terms, our record is almost equal, with 16 wins for United, 15 wins for Grimsby and six draws. Our last meeting, in 1948, ended 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>That record will have little bearing on the modern day instalment of the fixture, but it&#8217;s certainly one the Reds will be looking to extend in our favour, all while savouring a rare meeting and a new ground for many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PREVIOUS MEETINGS It would be an understatement to say that meetings between the Reds and Grimsby are rare,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131002,55796,1592,13,18,17,12,20,14,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-374674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-2025_08_27_blundell_park_grimsby","9":"tag-2025-26","10":"tag-first-team","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-like","13":"tag-match-coverage","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-search","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-united-now"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115094567147168642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}