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Diary - Wednesday 5 May 2010

5 May 2010

Idle Diary writes: There's only 72 hours to go until the big day. Without wanting to extend the rhetoric too far into the realms of the Cameronian election spiel, let's roll up the sleeves, there's not a minute to lose.

Whichever angle you look at it - politics; football - it's a week of slender margins. Town are a mere point behind Barnet. The Tories are looking to limp towards the safety net of a majority, however minute that gap is. Come Sunday, a Conservative government and Town facing a season in the Conference is how a modern day Dante would envisage purgatory. It's a pit of despair that could have the Cod Almighty team packing it all in to retreat to a cabin by the lakes of Cumbria, to make bar billiards tables, read books, and sup ale most of the day.

But we're not there yet! Resignation hasn't set in yet! There's still a non-Conservative government in power! And Town are still a Football League club! The idle fantasy must wait that little while longer.

Saturday "goal scoring hero" (a phrase journalists can use ad infinitum) Rob Atkinson also believes in such positive thought, saying the players wanted to atone for the Torquay defeat: "We didn't want the fans to go home thinking we didn't care. I think we showed how much it means to us staying in the Football League." Rob also nodded agreeably in the direction of the club's fans for their support, wanting more of the same for the upcoming season finale.

And the fans don't believe the fight is over either, with the club confidently expecting to take its full allocation of 2,111 tickets at Burton. Who will be there is a question the club's superb official site fails to answer with the melodramatic headline "Burton chaos!", but basically if you've a counterfoil, you've got until 5pm tomorrow to get your hands on one of the 501 additional tickets. If you haven't got a ticket or can't make it you'll want word, any word on the local radio coverage of the match. Is there any? Radio Humberside can't consign this last day salvation/disaster solely to the online Mariners World service can they? Come on, Burnsy! Show your support by putting the Mariners on the FM commentary!