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Diary - Monday 16 January 2012

16 January 2012

Miss Guest Diary writes: So Town have now won six games in a row, scoring 19 and conceding seven goals along the way. I know that most of the teams were lower in the league than us, and in the case of AFC Hornchurch from a different planet, but I still can't help feeling a little bit excited.

I didn't remember Town going on a long winning run before, so I looked at the Cod Almighty results database to see when it had last happened. It turned out to be in March 1990 - when Town won all seven games that month. This is truly outside my experience, as my first Town game was away at Southend in April 1990. I asked Tony Butcher, the Cod Almighty match reporter, what it was like, how exciting it was, but he was living down south at the time and only got to one of the games. He was also brought up in the school of pessimism and simply said: "I knew we were good enough to go up." If you read his match reports, you will have gathered that this season he doesn't believe Town are good enough to get promoted.

Your regular diarist has also cautioned against getting carried away, but sometimes in life it doesn't hurt. Confidence in sport is crucial and can carry people further than their skills and talent might otherwise warrant. It can provide momentum - what in US politics is called 'the big mo'. After all, why refer to the crowd as the 12th man if not to suggest that their backing can boost the team's performance? GTFC are, once more, offering ticket deals for next Saturday's game against Bath, so get down to Blundell Park and get behind the team. They may yet make it to the play-offs.

One area where I do think it's a little silly to get carried away is in the talk of Liam Hearn being wanted by Premiership, or even Championship, clubs. He's 26 years old, for goodness' sake, not a teenage prodigy. As one wag joked on Twitter: "in other news Tom Newey is linked to Inter Milan".

The saga of whether Anthony Elding did or did not make lewd gestures at the Lincoln fans on New Year's Day continues. Now he's claiming that the Lincoln fans were mean to him and called him names. More than a few Town fans called him some choice things too, before his recent run of goals and, of course, before he turned into a Twitter icon. Though this status has now apparently been usurped by #MichaelOwenFacts.

Oh no! The fates really are having a laugh at our expense. Town have been drawn away in the next round of the FA Trophy to... Bath City. Well, that makes it doubly important to keep the winning run going and give Town the big mo. Up the Mariners!