Cod Almighty | Diary
Got herself a mountaintop
2 March 2022
Hands up if you should have been writing a diary but spent the morning listening to the excellent DN35 podcast with Joe Waters instead. Daubney was going to put a superlative with Joe's name there but there's no need. Joe Waters is a standalone for everything you could dream of in a footballer and Mariner. Don't believe me? Go listen to the podcast and his memories of his 1980 team, the beating heart of an entire town and the inspiration for a generation.
Removing the headphones and landing back in 2022 for a quick dive into the lukewarm waters of the #gtfc hashtag on social media indicates we've missed little. The Woking manager hasn't been unsacked and the shabby manner of his dismissal suggests Town will have another fan for Saturday afternoon at least. Daubney, like most of the CA crew, will be there this weekend so come and say hello if you see a collection of bad haircuts with matching dress sense brooding at a corner table containing a makeshift Alan Buckley shrine.
Reason seventy-five to be permanently bitter about our relegation isn't having to play Boreham Wood, it's having to remember that the town is called Borehamwood and the team Boreham Wood. I like my useless information to have a bit of edge to it. Like Hull City are the only club in the professional English leagues whose name is spelt entirely out of letters that cannot be coloured in. Or the one about Swindon Town being the only league football club in England or Scotland that doesn't contain any letters that appear in the word mackerel. Or maybe Swindon fan, the brilliant David Squires just made that one up. Anyway, I had another bit of useless information about footballing monkeys which I can't remember because I had to forget it to make space for bloody Boreham Wood FC not Borehamwood FC.
Either way their participation in something called the "FA Cup" (I'm presuming it's a new competition and we forgot to enter it or something) meant no game for GTFC last night, but there was Conference action elsewhere. Wins for Chesterfield and Wrexham makes them look like Stockport's main challengers for top spot. The Wood, despite their rubbish and bordering on rude nickname, and Halifax both have games in hand on the top three and could also feature. If I'm being honest, I'm only mentioning the table to be polite and fill a diary paragraph. Maybe I'll get interested in the top end again when we win our next ten.
Right, once I've given the youth action news that Town's Shadow Scholarship outfit are in action against Ipswich this afternoon, I'm off to look at Joe take another game by the scruff of the neck on Youtube. No moaning at the back about being shortchanged and the diary only lasting halfway through your tuna roll. It's CA's birthday party and we'll cry/write short yet waffly diaries if we want to. Just be grateful you didn't get this from twenty years ago.