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Diary - Monday 19 April 2010

19 April 2010

Middle aged Diary writes: I am changing jobs in May. Nevertheless, when I put my bag down at my desk this morning, and was greeted with "Counting down the days then?", my first thought was not of how long before I ritually burn my building pass, but of the days remaining of Grimsby Town's Football League existence. The weekend's pursuit can loom out of all proportion. Tony Butcher's report, the interviews with Olly Lancashire and Neil Woods, all make clear how much it hurts, and we shall all howl, inwardly or outwardly, when the inevitable is confirmed, but I also hope that the Cod Almighty readership has a sufficiently broad perspective to need no reminding that if you find your happiness depends on the league in which your favourite football team plays, you should be having a serious think about the direction your life is taking.

Cod Almighty has noted before the strange relationship between politics and the Mariners: our slumps almost always coincide with Labour governments, our revivals with Tory ones (and this is the most benign construction I can put on John Fenty's politics). Nevertheless, if relegation is, somehow, still in the balance on 6 May, please take your convictions (whatever they may be) into the polling booth. The letter from an Altrincham fan in the new Postbag shows that there will still be pleasure to be had from following Grimsby next season, and life will go on.