Cod Almighty | Diary
Organízalo Gaffer, deberíamos estar derrotando esta ducha fácilmente
29 September 2021
"It's a hard environment, football" mused Paul Hurst in his post-match comments last night. The context was a missed opportunity to build on a 1-0 lead but could easily have been a reference to the drenching received by Town fans on the uncovered Hayes Road terrace. If ever a night screamed conference football, it was this. A long haul on a horrible night to face strong opponents and a weak ref on a pitch perfect to host under-11 training drills seven nights a week but never a meaningful game of football.
This is less soggy biscuits, more a reality check. Not only is football hard, we all know it's a bit bonkers. Gloriously bonkers. Rather than mourn as our unbeaten start dissolved in Bromley stair-rods, Daubney Diary was distracted by FC Sheriff Tiraspol winning in Madrid. To put this win into perspective, we need only look at their badge. It begins and ends at that for me, something looking like it was pinched from Roy of the Rovers. Not the main story either, more like a team that Billy Dane joins when he loses his place on the school team having misplaced his magic boots for the 800th time.
For further proof and to give it a context for Town fans who don't follow the Big Football that closely, Real Madrid were beaten at home by a team that lost to Pat Hoban's Dundalk last season. The big man has this penalty on his CV just below his claim to the most famous blocked shot in GTFC history. Fairytale stuff, I refuse to do any further digging on FC Sheriff for fear of finding that they're owned by a Moldovan tax-dodging, puppy-drowning oil billionaire who has just sold one of his frozen fish businesses to become the principle funder of his local team.
So that's Bromley(A) in the books on this mad glorious rollercoaster, give us a mo' to get the report and stuff up. We've also got a Rich Mills special in the oven for the Dover Rough Guide that will be ready for you presently. In the meantime, answers on a postcard, please. Is the John McAtee tribunal a closed book from both Scunny and Town because:
- We're embarassed to have paid so much and Scunny don't want to disclose the fee either because their fans will want to use it to buy Gary Goals
- They're embarassed to have received a bag of mis-shaped Cheapside balls for the best player ever
- Another reasonable reason for what appears to be a break with the spirit of transparency and communication from the club
No suggestion of improper behaviour here, it's just the club statement seemed a bit old school compared what we've come to expect, like this from the Chair:
The rain & wind at Bromley serves as a powerful metaphor for what inevitably we will face this season. The trust & hope we are building will remind us to pull up our collars, stand closer together and keep singing until the sun comes out again. Which it will. Onwards. #utm #gtfc https://t.co/F4MMxAxFkg
— Jason Stockwood (@jstockwood) September 29, 2021
Hear, hear. On to another full home house against Dover.
UTM.