Cod Almighty | Diary

Ranting and chanting

16 October 2013

Following on from yesterday's diary, there really isn't much for your London Diary to talk about. Yesterday a Town reserve team which included a fair amount of first-teamers played a young Scunthorpe United side. We won 3-nuffink, thanks to two goals from young Dayle Southwell and a Rodman free kick. Ross Hannah played and so is now probably in contention to play on Saturday. Bloody good job too – not sure how we'd cope with just having the other 12 strikers. Nice of the club to tweet the game yesterday – made the day go by that little bit quicker.

Sir Alan of Buckley is in the media again today, doing some PR with the Telewag ahead of his book launch. Have we mentioned his book? We might be a little bit excited here at CA Towers. I sincerely hope he uses the same language in the book as he does with his interviews. "But how was I ever going to sit down, think of questions and write it down? I'm a football man, I'm not a flipping writer or an author!" Ah, classic Buckley. "Paul (the ghost writer) did all the hard work – I just made him a cup of tea and answered questions." He's nothin' but honest is our Alan.

While we're chatting about media, nice to see that this video about smoked haddock has been doing the rounds. Tesco Finest* has done an advert about how they source their haddock from a family in Grimsby, and they've used excerpts from Grimsby's finest** football club. Nice little shot of a Harry the Haddock and the Upper Findus and some audio of the finest chanting heard outside of a Catholic cathedral. Have a smashing Wednesday guys, and I mean that.

*Tesco put this after its 'Finest' range – no idea why; it's not a footnote
**Based in Cleethorpes