Cod Almighty | Diary
Diary - Thursday 29 December 2005
29 December 2005
It had everything: a tense build-up, a lot of commitment and skill, and ultimately a successful result. But enough about GTFC's annual general meeting; let's move on to last night's victory over Lincoln, made possible by three ace goals from Ciaran Toner, Michael Reddy and Andy Parkinson, in that order, and a pre-match strop from Keith Alexander, who was outraged that the match was allowed to go ahead on a snow-dusted playing surface. Yeah, like his team ever keeps the ball on the playing surface long enough for it to matter. City looked a shadow of the team that swept to a 4-2 victory at Blundell Park last season and the biggest obstacle to Town's prospects of a sixth league home win this season was the heavy snow shower that began at half time and had home fans frantically asking each other how much of an abandoned match needs to have been played before the score is allowed to stand as a result. The result returns the Mariners to the top of the fourth division after an absence of two and a half months, and if Wycombe fail to beat Orient tonight then Town can enjoy the view from the top for the rest of the year.
John Fenty has, unsurprisingly, been successful in his bid to invest more money in GTFC and take his stake above 50 per cent without having to offer to buy everyone else out. At the club's annual general meeting today, shareholders voted in favour of the Town chairman's proposal by a margin of 110,000 to 0 - which, incidentally, is also what the final score would have been last night if the Mariners had spent the second half trying to score more goals rather than not get injured. It also makes me wish Cod Almighty had voted against it now, instead of in favour, just to be the only people who did. So if Fenty sells Blundell Park tomorrow, then closes down the club and uses the proceeds to buy himself a villa in San Tropez, don't come crying to me.
If you just can't stand the wait for Parky's fantastic goal against Lincoln to appear on Mariners World then why not while away the time by watching the highlights of the AGM? Footage of the meeting will be available shortly in a "World Exclusive", the emphasis here presumably being that Mariners World is the only place you can watch it, rather than that the AGM is not expected to be screened to packed bars in Guatemala and the United Arab Emirates. It is hoped that commentary will be added in the style of GTFC's season highlights videos, with fans anticipating gems such as "My money's on John Fenty!", "Fenty won't win this vote... oh! He does do!", and "I'm not taking this coat off now! It's covering up the fact that I haven't got a tie on, which would get me ejected from McMenemy's immediately!"
Finally today, Darren Mansaram - who we all thought left Town on a permanent transfer to Halifax halfway through last season - is listed by the Mariners' official website as a current GTFC player on loan to Worksop. Do they know something we don't?