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Diary - Wednesday 12 March 2008

12 March 2008

These are memorable times for Grimsby Town Football Club. The most successful manager in Mariners history is taking the side to Wembley ten years after his double win at the national stadium in 1998. The worst is behind us and, with just six points separating Town from the play-off places, some supporters are at last believing that an escape from the fourth division in the right direction might not be too many more years away. And Barnet have at last scored a goal against Town, at the sixth time of asking. Sadly for the Bees, their utter failure to win a single header or tackle or be remotely good at football last night in any way at all allowed Lord Alan Buckley's side to run in four of their own, lifting Town to their highest league position since Russell 'I Could Get Any Female Off The Street' Slade took his faltering team to the promotion play-off final almost two years ago. If any Barnet fans are reading, please email the Diary so that I can arrange to buy you a pint next time you come up to Cleethorpes. God knows we owe you.

To add insult to P6 W6 D0 L0 F17 A1 Pts18 injury, Richard Bedwell has emailed the Diary to point out another error in the spectacularly inaccurate match preview published on a Bees website and mercilessly taken apart by yesterday's Diary. With an ineptitude matched only by, well, his team, Barnet Mad contributor 'Jaybee' managed no fewer than 13 factual errors in his or her round-up of the GTFC squad, and I use the term "no fewer than" advisedly, as Richard has found a 14th. Martin Butler, it emerges, has not in fact "scored 59 goals in 372 league matches in his career so far," as claimed by Jaybee. "Soccerbase says 123 in 438," points out Bedders matter-of-factly. Thankyou. And with that I think we should stop, before Cod Almighty Towers is picketed by angry, placard-waving campaigners from the League Against Cruel Sports.