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30 July 2021

Hello, BOTB Diary here, managing somehow both to be the least informative and the least entertaining of the diarissimos, but always in there trying, like a gangly youth team defender soon to be on his way to Gainsborough Trinity.

In Wednesday’s Daubney Diary, mention was made of our new loan signing from Aston Villa, Seb Revan. The residents of the Aston Villas seem to be very fond of the lad. "You'll enjoy him," says one, making me wonder if left backs are there to be enjoyed. "Take care of him," says another. Well, that's not something we can do, is it? "Welcome, King's Lynn, could you please take care of our left back, please? He's very good, you see, and we don't want him injured. Go easy on the tackles, if you could. Cheers."

Now, it looks like we have ourselves a great player, potentially, and far be it from me to doubt the move, but do Villa know what they are doing here? Have they ever seen a game in our division? If they had they would be aware that a great deal of it is fat men with tattoos kicking each other. Perhaps Villa think it might toughen him up. Alternatively young Seb could come to the realisation that this is a hard game to make a living at and retire to the country to lead a quiet life. Welcome, Seb, and don't forget your shin pads.

NEWSBANG: Ben Grist has finally joined Leicester City. I thought he went there last week, which rather dilutes the impact of this particular newsbang. It goes without saying that we wish him the best and hope he has a great career in them there upper echelons. If he had gone to Rotherham, it would have been Grist to the Millers, but he didn't.

Cheekiest post of the week on the Fishy was a claim that Bromley's striker Michael Cheek was training with Town this week, As evidence the poster produced a picture of the aforementioned strikemeister together with a blurry photograph of what he claimed was the same man training with the Town boys. Hilariously, the resemblance, is, shall we say, not uncanny. Indeed, it is about as canny as you can get. They are both men under the age of 35 and that is about as far as I'm happy to state resemblance-wise. Next week, a photo of a squirrel running along the fence at Cheapside will be used as evidence that Gareth Southgate is our new manager.

NEWSBANG: we have reached 2,600 season tickets sold. Well done us. The new season is still more than three weeks away, by the way. The Bananarama: where Time Stands Still.

Anyhoo, tonight we are playing Hyde. Seek, Jekyll, No, can't think of a pun. Pre-season, eh? I mean, our little summers are few, and none of us want to wish our lives away, but I mean, golly. The waiting.  

Before this small offering grinds to a halt we must pay tribute to long-term GTFC employee John King. He worked for the club for most of his adult life before sadly passing away this week at the age of 58. I never knew him personally but those who did talk of a funny, warm hearted and much loved man. He was clearly one of our own, and our deepest condolences are offered to his family and friends.