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Diary - Thursday 10 May 2012

10 May 2012

Miss Guest Diary writes: Earlier this week I was listening to a podcast of the Danny Baker Show from a while ago. James Alexander Gordon was a guest and Danny got him to read out some results for the second division of a hundred years ago. Town lost, of course - 5-2 to Glossop North End (who?). But what I found most interesting was that Gainsborough Trinity were in the same division as Town. I had assumed that they were like Forest Green or Alfreton and had never been in the Football League. But I was wrong.

This makes me feel slightly less put out that we will be in the same division as them next season if they win their play-off final against Nuneaton on Sunday. I like the wonderfully garbled comments which Trinity's manager Steve Housham has made about their promotion hopes. I'm not sure Town's management share Steve's optimism. Surely they wouldn't have arranged a pre-season friendly against a club which they expected to be playing in the same division? I wonder if the game will be cancelled if Trinity do get promoted?

I was pleased to read yesterday that my current favourite Frankie Artus has signed a new contract with the club. Today he has told the Telegraph that he hopes Liam Hearn will stay. Don't we all. I was less thrilled to read that "the way the managers are looking to play next season suits my game" just after he had expressed his appreciation of playing 4-3-3. We all know how well that works for Town. Just how many of Liam's goals were scored when Town were playing that formation, I wonder?

I am aware that some fans claim to support more than one team, but it still always puzzles me when I see people on the #GTFC Twitter hashtag expressing hopes for their second team. But if I did have a second team, it would be QPR. It's the nearest professional club to where I grew up and also the team my dad supported as a young man.

So I am quietly hoping they manage to stay in the Premier League this weekend. But equally I am hoping that Man City snatch the title from Man Utd, which is only guaranteed if they beat QPR. I don't have a preference for either Manchester team, but it has been very amusing watching all the TV pundits, who gave the title to Man Utd around Christmas time, suddenly having to backpedal furiously in the last month. I suppose I will get some satisfaction from the result, whoever wins. That is, I believe, known as a win-win situation. As a Town fan that's not a concept with which I'm really familiar.