Several Iron fans however have been posting on the Iron-Bru.net messageboard complaining about indiscriminate and heavy handed policing of traveling fans.
One fan wrote: "When we arrived at about 12-50 we were escorted to the Bucket and Spade pub, we had no choice, when I told the officer I wanted some fish and chips he grimmaced at me, slapped his hand with his baton and told me to keep walking.
"Once at the pub, we were not allowed to leave until the kind officers told us we could. Then we were escorted to the ground, lead by a WPC on a horse whom I can only pressume was on a baton bonus because she was only too glad to whack anyone who came within six feet of her and her horse.
"When we finally reached the ground the nice officers had timed it perfectly for us to be jumped on by a large number of Town 'fans'."
Another witness wrote: "It was a bad day for violence, I tryed to stay out of the way.
"I saw two scunny fans on the floor with six yobs laying into them on the seafront, and a mass brawl down one street.
"Scunny cars were getting kicked in and random Scunny fans were being picked off by yobs just for the sake of it."
12 North Lincolnshire men are due at Grimsby Crown Court on Tuesday to be sentenced for their part in a violent clash last April, with 22 men from the Grimsby area - which Humberside Police described as the worst 'football related' disorder ever seen in the area.
Seven additional men deny involvement in the case, and are also due at Grimsby Crown Court this week.