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Diary - Friday 28 March 2008

28 March 2008

Quite a few of you reading this have a trip to London to negotiate this weekend. I hope the trains run, the buses don't break down and that everyone has a great time before, during, and after. If you happen to have bought one of the twelve hundred or so Cod Almighty T-shirts sold since we started doing them, then how about getting a picture for our Wembley special that Si Wilson has promised for next week? He has told you how to send mobile phone snaps here.

And a gang of us will be taking our specially commissioned anti-franchise banner to the AFC Wimbledon home match against Horsham tomorrow, together with £500 to split between the GTFC supporters' trust and the Wombles' trust. The T-shirt man tells me the latest club fans to have latched on to the franchise T-shirts are the Luton lot. It's amazing how the internet can sell you for you without advertising, or lifting a finger really - especially if the cause is as good as the shirt is stylish.

Your Guest Diarist happens to believe that the match on Sunday will be won or lost in midfield. Can Bolland, Boshell and Hunt be a successful triumvirate, or will they fail to cope with the highly paid skilled mercenaries that the evil Winkelman has hired to push his made-up, stolen team up the leagues? Lord Buckley - well, well aware, for once, of the quality of players hired by the Bastard Franchise Scum - looked tired as he talked to the bloke from Mariners World. When his interviewer revealed a cunning plan he had thought up to loan in someone good just for the final, Buckley let him down as gently as he could. The squad has changed little in the 18 months since Buckley returned, but with the succession of eye-catching prospects coming through from the academy why should we need to loan in tired, unmotivated journeymen? The half-million pound prize was won getting to this final; winning it is just a matter of overcoming odds of 3/1 against.

Mr Chris Kamara, whom I shall give the benefit of the doubt to by describing as that lovable rogue from Sky Sports, has done a preview on the final. As usual he rattles on about Danny North, manages to remember Bolland's name and then that of, ermm, Peter Bore. But maybe Sunday is a day for young Mr Bore to make his next comeback? Buckley has said the team will be announced to the players after dinner on Saturday. Whatever line-up he chooses, young Ryan Bennett will be no doubt contemplating his future after his call-up to the young England squad yesterday. "It's only a matter of time before he goes," I hear the more world-weary among you mutter. But at least Mr Kamara is not touting him to his Championship-club-manager mates. Not yet anyway. Enjoy the weekend. See yer.