Cod Almighty | Diary

Is Where do you go to (my lovely)? the most overblown song of all time?

3 July 2014

Hi Middle-Aged Diary here. With other diarists dropping like Arjen Robben in the Mexican penalty area, if you can't stand my particular blend of pomposity and preaching, you could be in for an ordeal.

We could admittedly have tried to get London Diary to fill in this slot, but that would have been especially cruel as today's rhetorical question on the Telegraph is "Will Alex Rodman make shock return to Grimsby Town?". To save you clicking the link, the answer boils down to 'probably not'. Elsewhere, manager Paul Hurst expatiates on why we are unlikely to be signing Alan Goodall or Omar Bogle either.

As I am probably back tomorrow, I'm going to try and crowd-source the diary. Impossible for Mariners who have seen Jack Lester, Michael Reddy or Danny North to imagine, but just suppose that in the last minute of next year's Conference play-off final a Town player goes down 'easily' to win a penalty. Do you cheer? Do you laugh? Do you boo? Do you desperately pretend to yourself it was a foul, even at the risk of coming across like Alan Shearer? Do you tell yourself that our opponents would have done it given the chance, so we are entitled to do the same?

Cod Almighty doesn't have a party line on diving or anything else (although a website does tend to rely on its organisers having enough in common that they can get things done). So if I say I'd love to think I'd be making a stand for moral righteousness, but rather suspect my brain would be telling my eyes that they had seen something they had not, that's not intended to colour your response. Send us your thoughts and we'll review the findings tomorrow, or soon.