Cod Almighty | Diary

1989 once more

25 February 2015

It's enough to make your Middle-Aged Diary feel young again. Grimsby are murdering teams 1-0, our fans are taking inflatables to matches, and stewards are being a bit bone-headed.

Of course we have only heard 50-year-old Kenneth Meech's side of the story. It might have been a viciously sharp rubber shark. On the face of it, it's hard not to feel that the incident has been blown up out of all proportion (pun entirely intentional, after a quick check London Diary didn't use it yesterday). Except that, as the interview makes clear, the measures taken against Meech are more than just distressing. They impact on his livelihood. If the whole thing proves to be just a sense of humour failure, it would be nice to think that lessons will be learnt.

Town fans are making various plans to liven up our remaining away matches. And even as I look to see when the Chester match is, I see someone in the Cod Almighty team is right up with the game and has updated our site's fixture list with the suggested themes. Jesters at Chester, and the first person to say: "Aren't we taking it a bit too far, with the team playing like clowns?" gets gently prodded with a plastic fish.

There's not a lot to say about last night's win. Let's be honest: if there were a Match of the Day for the Conference, a 1-0 home win over the bottom club would be the one they showed after Gary Lineker had used up all his puns and when Alan Shearer was ringing for a taxi. That's assuming he was in the studio and hadn't just phoned in his performance as usual. A job done, then. It keeps us pretty secure in the play-off places and just about in a position to take advantage if the three clubs above us all start dropping points.

That's about it, I'm afraid. Short but sweet. A Paul Reece among diaries.