Cod Almighty | Diary

I said PLAY right wing, not be it

29 October 2014

Your London Diary here in what is a glorious day in a sunny, yet bitter Wednesday morning in Cleethorpes. One of those days where I had my winter jacket on, but also my sunglasses as I waded down the avenue to get some (Almond) milk to accompany my cereal. You know what though, my socks were too thin, but I’ll sort that out don’t you worry.

Quite a few things to get through today, firstly, Miss Guest Diary was treading on thin ice on Monday when suggesting that a B&B on Isaacs Hill might not be the best place to spend your birthday as that is exactly what I did on Monday (family own it), so I guess it’s just finding one that you like. Obviously at CA towers we don’t believe in ads, so you’ll have to work out which guest house you should use in the future...  

The club have launched their new sticker book today and by ‘eck I’m excited. As I say probably every week, I hate modern football, so this is a great way to get kids (of all ages) collecting their true heroes in sticker form. I was lucky enough to get an early copy this week and it’s proper exciting and reminds me of when I was a young lad.

My family tell a tale of when I was younger and the time when I lost a load of my Premiership stickers (before I saw the light). Apparently I was gutted as these weren’t swaps and I needed them to complete the book. As my family were down stairs probably watching TV over a brew I proclaimed from my bedroom upstairs, "Mum, I’ve found Seamen, it was under my bed. Come and look". Those were the days. Anyway, usual drill applies, voucher from the telewag and collect from the club shop. Exiles, don’t cry, there are copies for you too. Swapsies outside the main gate. #gotgotneedGTFC

Lastly, an incredible piece in the local rag this morning that had me smiling like a madman. The long and short of it is that your local UKIP party have given Grimsby Town the last piece of the puzzle as to where to build the new stadium, sorry, ARENA! Your local right wing ‘party’ have come up with an idea that an Arena style stadium could be built on the former site of Hunstman Tioxide, in between the sewage plant and the chemical plant. They don’t have the cash to build it, but they’ll be looking for local investors to help.

They want this arena to "surpass the might" of the centrally located NEC in Birmingham. ‘But wait, Birmingham is in the centre of the country, located next to the second largest city in the UK. How are we going to surpass that might?’. Fear no more, UKIP are also shape shifters and have vowed to make Grimsby and Cleethorpes "the beginning of the line, not the end". So don’t worry about that. It all makes clear sense and in no way does it sound bat-shit crazy in any way, shape (shifting) or form. Are they building out in sea? I don’t expect it. They’re keen on the borders.

Alas, the club’s chairman-not-Chairman has branded the issue as ‘barmy’ and rightly so. I mean, who even owns that land it’s on? But I think the main reason is probably down to this quote. "It is essential that the club does not become a political football, so to speak, as relocation is vital to its very existence", said John Shelton Fenty, Conservative councillor for the Humberston and New Waltham ward of North East Lincolnshire Council.

We’re all doomed. Have a great day!