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Diary - Thursday 11 November 2010

11 November 2010

It's a wild old November day and during the minutes silence at 11am to remember the fallen your Guest Diarist's mind cast back to that sad elegiac story Cod Almighty ran last Christmas about brave Town skipper Sid Wheelhouse. Hasn't there been enough war? All this talk of fighting in foreign fields in the name of freedom - well, I don't know about that really. We have invaded Afghanistan at least four times in the last two hundred years and got the best part of nowhere haven't we?

Moving on to a cheerier topic, Cod Almighty's Pete Green was on the late-night Tony Livesey Radio 5 show last night, where they were discussing the annoying habit an increasing number of clubs have of playing 'goal music'. If you have even the vaguest interest or opinion about this I urge you to have a quick listen. Pete's topic starts at about 1h 54m and lasts less than ten minutes. Well worth it actually, if only to find out that Fleetwood (bless 'em) play the Captain Pugwash theme every time they score. Joyful, magnificent, nostalgic and perfect to do a crazy-because-we-scored jig to, eh?

You think there's no news today? Well, I can tell you that Michael Leary, Lewis Gobern and young Corner are heartily sick of the A1 this week. Less than 24 hours after their horrible late-night return journey from Cambridge (complete with multiple road-closed but not closed and let's send you towards Grimsby in a due westerly direction highway authority idiocy), the lads had to endure an evening drive up to Gateshead in a minibus with the reserves. Apart from these three, of course, it was all young lads, save good old Dave Moore who acted as manager, physio and (possibly) driver. So they lost 4-2 but young Mulready attracted attention again with a decent display and a goal, I'm told.

That Pugwash thing has made me determined to try to get to Fleetwood in February when we play them. It'll be the first time I can recall wanting the opposition to score at least once so I can witness the Pugwash dancing. As long as we bag a couple though, obviously. I'll be back tomorrow with some news about the Woodses masterplan for Saturday. Let's hope it involves Bradley Wood at right-back. See yer.