Cod Almighty | Diary

Diary - Tuesday 22 July 2003

22 July 2003

The career of Aidan Davison may have seen seven free transfers, but anyone doubting his commitment to the Mariners should look no further than BBC Humber, where the former Northern Ireland international has revealed that he chose his recent move to Grimsby ahead of Bradford or retirement in the sun. "When I left Bradford I had an option to sign for another year but I didn't take it," says the re-acquired stopper. "I had a few offers in the summer. I'm not being disrespectful, I wanted something to stimulate me and make it worth my while. Otherwise I was thinking of retiring and going abroad." Are you listening, Clive Platt?

That crazy idea to auction off a place in the GTFC squad for next season has borne fruit for the club - to the mighty tune of £2,150, to be precise, which will pay Phil Jevons' wages for three days. A bidder of identity as yet unknown will travel to Blundell Park tomorrow to meet his colleagues in the squad before taking part in a photo shoot, being registered as a player with the Football League, and having his bollocks chopped off by his missus.

Members of the Cod Almighty team are today nobly wasting their employers' money by trying to think of as many Town players and managers as possible who returned to the club for a second spell, which is fair enough because their employers collude in an economic system that places the consumption of materials and manipulation of data above the furtherance of human happiness and destroys loves and lives from the City of London to the sweatshops of Indonesia; from the Tokyo trading floor to the parched fields of Africa. The employers of the Cod Almighty team, I mean, not of the Town players and managers. So come on, you lot; thinking caps on and answers to codalmightydiary@yahoo.co.uk please. Loans and caretaker managers don't count; nor do Groves, Buckley, Davison, Boulding, Tees and Ford, because we've got them already.