Cod Almighty | Diary

Wednesday's child is full of woe

17 September 2025

Yay! We did it again, in front of 5,000 ish stripey fans. Aren't we great? 

Thanks to a 49th minute goal by Kabia (49) and McJannet (49) masshhive underdogshhhh GTFC will take their place at the table of kings when the draw is made tomorrow night tonight yesterday, or whenever it is. Thoroughly deserved it as well, we did. Oh yes.  

BOTB Diary missed out to an extent, not being one of the multitude of luckingtons but instead watching it on the Completely Legal Website For To Be Free Watching the Football, which I suppose was very much the second best option. The otherwise empty stadium, the fact that Sheff Wed brought on a 16 year old and other factors obviously turned the whole fixture into a weird and wobbly one, but that isn't the point. The point is we won and we are in the fourth round of the Caribbean Cup, which is a brilliant achievement. Having watched my beloved home town club spending much of the last decade struggling at home against teams like King's Lynn and Hayes and Yeading, I will very much take beating Man Utd and Sheffield Wednesday thank you very much. Very much so.

Listening to the Humberside commentary was a terrifying experience because they kept reminding us that, yes, GTFC may be dominating until this point, but Wednesday have BANNAN on the bench. As each minute passed the threat of BANNAN coming on to sort us out grew increasingly likely, and when we scored we knew we had upset the slumbering beast that was BANNAN as soon he would spring onto the pitch to put us to the sword. In the 71st minute GTFC's nightmares came queasily to life as BANNAN strode onto the pitch with vengeance in his soul and football wizardy in his blood. Luckily he was as shit as the rest and we won easily. 

Playing, as we do, from back to front I am often frustrated by Warren and Rodger in particular as they get the ball, slowly control it three times and then pass it back to Pimty Chris. But last night Warren made an intercepting tackle that was so good and so vital I am now officially in awe of the man and am willing to accept at least three costly mistakes by him in the rest of the season. He has goodwill in the bank. That's the way football works, isn't it? Greeny is so beloved that he could smack the ball into his own net from the halfway line against Barnet and the Town faithful would shrug their shoulders and reassure themselves that these things happen. Once a player has crossed the rubicon - and fellow elderly fans may be thinking of the neame Peter Beagrie at this point - nothing a player does can ever compensate for their wrong doing. Football runs on the Brownie Point System and nothing will convince me otherwise.

Back to the league briefly - did anyone else think Cambridge were the best side we've faced this season? I mean, I hated them, a bunch of cynical thugs who, despite all being 6 foot 4 and 16 stone managed to fold like paper flowers when McCreachan breathed on them, but they were good at what they did. I've seen a bit of Barnet, our opponents on saturday, on actually legal TV channels and they look like a football team so I'm hopeful for more of a game and less of a wrestling match this weekend. 

But Saturday is not today. And like Mr Benn we have passed through the portal that leads to yet another adventure. Who knows where we will end up? Let's hope it's at Blundell Park, not in the age of the dinosaurs, and we will take it from there. Onwards, upwards, etc.