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Diary - Monday 4 February 2008

4 February 2008

Lord Alan Buckley successfully avoided the manager of the month award and we should have beaten Nottingham Kickbackers. That's about everything, isn't it?

Oh, alright then. Tickets have gone on sale for the home leg of the Dulux Cup area final against Morecambe later this month. I can't really be arsed to paraphrase all the "season ticket holders get first dibs" stuff from Town's superb new official website, so go and have a look for yourself.

What? You want more? Well, you know that since football became socially acceptable in 1990, large companies have realised that football fans are the ultimate consumers, hence the proliferation of advertising that seeks to align the product with football, so that gullible consumers will be sold on the notion of 'proving' their love for their team, or indeed for football itself, by buying the product? And you know the way a large proportion of these ads make us look like complete nerks to non-football supporters by portraying us as life-free weirdos who dye our hair to match the kit, have a tattoo of our club's crest, decorate our house in our team's colours and name our child after our favourite player? Then you will recognise the gist of a frankly quite wretched sponsor competition thing on the SNOS, the prize being "a club strip of your choice", which is brilliant news for the millions of fans who must have done the whole hair dye/tattoo/paint the house/name the child combo and just managed to forget buying the replica kit. Johnstone's Paint, you feeble twats.