Cod Almighty | Diary

They Don't Exist

5 September 2025

‘So have Manchester United,’ said DAIvd Artell when Matt Dean pointed out how much money BFS have spent. The best answer. He's good at those. Your A46 Diary has long been impressed with DA’s interviews, and he only gets better. After Henry Brown’s red card was rescinded, his forgiveness for Tuesday night’s referee was lovely, his words on Khouri’s 100th game genuinely heartfelt and his comments on money and final table positions no less impressive for their obviousness.

Because he’s right, of course, once they’re on the pitch, there’s just the matter of scoring more goals than them. BFS have given themselves an edge on paper, not necessarily on the pitch. Having Bolton’s top scorer and signing players from Derby is great, but here we sit on the same points, the same goals scored and we’re first and second on the expected goals table. Stats and money and that. Ho hum.

So, forget the money and forget BFS; they’re not a real club anyway. Go to the pictures, read a book, spend some time with people you wouldn’t normally see on a Saturday. Soak up the last of the summer sun in the park, down the sea front, on a bike ride. Read a poem about beating Manchester United and try writing one of your own. Listen to music, paint the fence, start that podcast, start those memoirs, start that novel about the mouse who takes on a fox and falls into a worm hole filled with machine-gun-wielding-unicorns in the middle of a war with Nestle employees conscripted to capitalism’s cosmic frontline and the mouse and fox must join forces to win the day!

Have a great weekend. See you all for the Cambridge game.