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Fifty five, FIFTY FIVE!

5 May 2026

Daubney Diary has bills to pay and the gits gents who pay his wages turned the screws on him this morning. So blame/thank them for today's short offering and a word count roughly corresponding to a play-off ticket allocation from Salford.

Yes, that's where we begin and end today, Salford. A plaything club that is not the biggest blight on football but a blight nonetheless. Their blightiness will imminently manifest in the 500-odd tickets that we'll get for the biggest match we've had in years.

Perversely, we are bound by league rules to offer them 850 tickets for the first leg. They had 62 (sixty-two) visit us for the game at Blundell Park in March. This was a game deemed by those in the know as too big to be a mere 6-pointer and was officially upgraded to a rarely seen 7-pointer. And sixty-two were arsed to travel. As pointed out this morning over the CA brunch aperitifs, they have fifty-five tickets for every season ticket holder and we have fifty-five season ticket holders for every away ticket. Roughly.

There's also a six ticket limit per person for home fans in the second leg. Get them gone, not just from the playoffs, from the league. The locals aren't interested and they add nothing to the league apart from Karl's Comic Capers. Let's hope for more of this over the next two games. If there are any footballing gods still watching, we will surely prevail. UTM.