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Nobody's favourite road is the A180

12 March 2014

Well, one thing that your London Diary woke up to this morning was a nice bit of honesty in football. I watched this clip of Aaron Hunt asking the ref not to give his team a penalty and it honestly made me feel a little bit warm inside. Thing is, it shouldn't, but such is my disdain for modern-money-football that even a slight glimpse of compassion in the modern game makes me go weak at the knees. What an old romantic I am. Enough of the nice stuff: let's talk Grimsby.

Grimsby Town FC played a football match last night and didn't win. I think Hurst should do the honourable thing and resign from football, not just as manager from Grimsby Town, but from football full stop. Yeah, that'll show him. We're Grimsby Town and we deserve to be branding the Bulls losers.

Obviously I'm joking. Only a fool would think that, but sadly a segment of the Town 'faithful' had thoughts close to the ones just mentioned. Last night, as the final whistle was blown, the 'faithful' boo-boys pumped out their chests, pouted their lips and sang their song of negativity. "Booo. Booo. Booo." Who on Earth boos a team they love? Do they even love them? Are they just self-harmers? I can honestly say, hand on heart, I have never booed my beloved team after any result. And I was at Hartlepool back in 2003 (visiting a friend at uni, before you ask).

We've got a fair few games in hand against teams above us, yet for some reason people are shouting that we're going to be relegated. I'm not going to say "take a chill pill" or "chillax" because I'm not an idiot, but as fans, we really need to sort our shit out. Booing when our team draw is idiotic. As is going on Twitter and saying: "The fact Cook still gets brought on baffles me". Yeah, you're right mate – Cook? One of our strikers who can score goals? Sticking him on? Probably should have gone with Steve Croudson, mate. When Hurst gets sacked you should throw your hat into the ring, pal.

There were a number of articles doing the rounds yesterday following an interview from our manager in which he stated that Hereford, who have only been in this league a few years, are fighting for their lives to stay in the Conference and that we should expect them to come to Blundell Park kicking and screaming. Why are we then surprised that they came to Blundell Park kicking and screaming? They want to get out of this godforsaken league as much as we do. We do not 'deserve' to beat any time in any league. It's who plays well on the day. Hurst, you're the man for me.

Quick GCSE maths question for you now before I dismiss the class. If Connor lives in Manchester, which is 115 miles away from his work in Cleethorpes and he drives to work abiding by the speed limit of 70mph, what time should Connor leave his house? The answer: much, much earlier than he did yesterday. Yet another classic 'Town player on the motorway' story to make us look like a cool team. It's like Martin Butler all over again, minus the beaded seat cover. I'm off for a cold shower: you should do the same. Laters.