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I want a cowbell

7 July 2014

Miss Guest Diary writes: Allez! Allez! I forgot about football for a couple of days at the weekend (apart from watching the World Cup quarter-finals, obviously) and spent it getting immersed in Le Tour Yorkshire. Thanks to the generosity of a fellow Town fan and his wife who lent us their house while they were on holiday, I had a ringside seat in York for the roll out of day two of Le Tour.

Well, what I actually had was a chance to stand at the roadside for two hours until the cyclists rode past in a flash. But I do have a photo in which you can definitely see the left arm of the yellow jersey wearer. And before the riders came past I got to do a lot of communal cheering – particularly of anything related to Team Sky – and some booing too. We all know that sport is often more about who you don't like – so we booed the team cars of Astana and Tinkoff-Saxo for housing Spanish drug cheats, Garmin Sharp for not letting David Millar be in the race and Orica Greenedge for being Australian.

It was very disappointing not to see Mark Cavendish, out with a dislocated shoulder, but there were some giant bags of oven chips on wheels, which almost made up for it.

Talking of booing, I was none too pleased when I saw the new fixture list. Bristol Rovers away for the first game: nothing like easing our way into the new season gradually, especially with three players suspended. Boo! And then there's the Boxing Day fixture – not at Lincoln (four miles from my house) but at Macclesfield (over eighty miles away). Double boo!

Lincoln City claim to be "excited" by the prospect of playing Town on a Tuesday in September, but probably not as excited as I am right now, having just spotted myself in the picture accompanying the Telegraph article. They apparently asked not to have to play Town on Boxing Day because they want to "freshen up" the fixture list. I think for "freshen up" you could substitute "terrified of another stuffing at Christmas which doesn't involve any turkey or sausage-based products". Lincoln might get the three points next Boxing Day but they'll lose out financially. Do Alfreton even have 1,700 fans?

Finally, I see that Town "will not wait forever" for Connor Jennings. I am surprised that they are prepared to consider him at all – with only one goal from 12 appearances, he failed spectacularly to replicate the goalscoring form he'd shown at Macclesfield. And to be honest, he didn't look to me like he ever would.

I'm off for a walk now; if I see any oven chips on wheels, I'll let you know.