Cod Almighty | Diary

Not really much to show you, Sheila

19 November 2014

Your London Diary here, on one of those days where there is sod all to chat about. I could chat about the flares, but that's been covered this week.

Actually, sod it, I am going to give you my views on the flaregate. If you take a flare in to a Grimsby Town game from now on, you are, quite frankly, the end of a bell. I was at Alty on Saturday, and by 'eck it was an atmosphere and a half. We took about 10 non-Grimsby fans (not the flare-throwing types that Hurstststs alluded to) and they loved it but they couldn't understand the throwing of the flares.

It's just not the right time or place. We're in enough brown stuff off the pitch and adding points deductions or fines is only going to take the concentration away from the games that we need to win. We had a nice passage of play that was heading towards goal when some small-wienered weasel decided to stop play by lobbing one of these 'dick sticks' on to the pitch.

Every Grimsby Town player looked towards the away end in utter desperation. If you did throw a flare onto the pitch, you really have to realise that each and every Grimsby Town player, the ones that you look up to, think you're a colossal member of the highest order (a cock). 'No pyro, no party'? More like 'No friends, no family, please hug me'.

ANYWAY, sign up to the Largest Shareholders's Challenge in a few weeks. You could 'accidentally' touch Macca's (the original) bottom for a small fee. Worth every penny.

I've been banging on for the last few weeks about how Grimsby should have a green goalkeeper kit. I have trawled (pardon the pun) the interweb over the last few weeks about this, and you have emailed in with your thoughts and understandings on this. Town keepers apparently don't wear a green keeper kit as Grimsby fishermen don't like green and are superstitious about it.

This is believed to have derived from the fact that if someone goes overboard on a trawler, you're not going to identify them if they're wearing green in the murky waters. I stumbled upon this clip the other day from '72 which shows Harry Wainman wearing green and having a blinder with a bonus little bit of audio too.

Research (from 2010) shows that keepers are best in red, which contradicts what I've been saying. However, Peter Schmeichel wore green for the majority of his career and he was well good. I'm not finished with this yet, I'm gonna speak to Dave Boylen and get back to you.

UTM!