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The lengths that I will go to

8 September 2014

Miss Guest Diary writes: Just recently social media has turned me into a curmudgeon. Last week my Facebook page and Twitter timeline were chock-a-block with gurning fools giving a #thumbsup4nonleague or posting links to Youtube films of people being drenched in icy water. It annoyed me to such an extent that, when I heard John 'I'm Not The Chairman' Fenty was going to be making an appearance on the pitch on Saturday, I was tempted to boycott the game.

Don't get me wrong: I think the ice bucket challenge, when confined to the truly famous, was an innovative way of raising awareness of and funds for an incurable disease. But in the internet age things have a way of proliferating to a point where the original intention is lost and they become simply a tedious annoyance. Which is a pity. And the cynic in me wonders just how many of the people now taking part have made a donation to any charity at all, let alone the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

And I am all for trumpeting how good non-League football can be to watch. But then I wonder what was the point of all those thumbs up when Town's crowd of 3,785 – pretty close to their average attendance – was the highest in non-League on Saturday. Having said that, I'm still proud that Town can come top at something.

Apparently, Town have sold their entire allocation of tickets for the game at Lincoln tomorrow. So it's good news that our win over Welling and Lincoln's loss at Woking means we are now above them in the table. The other thing which pleases me is to read that on Saturday Lincoln's defence was "shaky" and they looked "loose and open". Oooh, I can't wait to see Jon-Paul Pittman rampaging around at Sincil Bank. That is, of course, assuming he isn't dropped to make way for Lennie.

Digressing entirely from football, I just had to share with the Cod Almighty community a little-known fact that I read last week in a national newspaper: Tetney is a small fishing town in Grimsby. Who knew? I'm going to look around for those trawlers the next time I visit.