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Diary - Monday 6 May 2013

6 May 2013

Miss Guest Diary writes: Even with a week to get over it, I was still feeling a bit miffed with Newport and so was rooting yesterday for Wrexham to win the play-off final. Not, as some might think, because I was upset at Town losing last week. No, on the day, Newport were simply better and deserved their victory: the reasons I didn't want Newport to get promoted were far more petty and childish than that.

Firstly, I hated the temporary stand behind the goal at Rodney Parade from which we watched the game. It bounced and swayed around alarmingly every time the fans jumped up and down - which they did a lot to ease the tedium of the second half - and which left me feeling slightly queasy. Secondly, I felt that it showed a complete lack of class not to wait until the Town fans had left the ground to announce that Wembley T-shirts had already been printed. But I changed my mind when I read this article about Newport's fortunes in the last few years. Losing to a club who had a lottery winner come in last year and take over as chairman could feel a bit unfair, but it's no different to the club being bankrolled by a local businessman. Anyway, Les Scadding sounds like a great bloke and I wish him and his club all the best for next season in the Football League.

I am very disappointed about the release of Ian Miller and Bradley Wood, so I'm not yet thinking about next season for Town. Except to pose the question to my other half as to whether we might "take a year off" from going to games. I've asked this every summer since we became non-League but not in a really serious way. I know we'll be heading down to Blundell Park as soon as the season tickets go on sale, and I confess to already looking forward to revisiting grounds we haven't been to for a few years, like Chester and Barnet. And I've absolutely no idea what we would do every weekend if there was no Town match to go to.

If you don't live in Lincoln or read The Guardian, you will probably have missed the news that Lincoln Ladies football team is being "relocated" to Nottingham and will be known henceforth as Notts County. Presumably this has not received much publicity because it concerns the women's game, but it is still to be deplored as another instance of franchise football.