Cod Almighty | Diary

Little Big Men

22 April 2020

Well, what a lamentable lack of leadership there is nationally, locally and within North East Lincolnshire's greatest institution – Town.

We'll leave the ersatz socialist government's initial policy of selective euthanasia aside for another day. Let's park any contemplation of feckless, reckless, irresponsible and incompetent bumbling by louche and lazy 'leaders'. Regionalised leagues. Pah!

It's now four weeks since your own, your very own Deviant Diary bemoaned the deafening silence and inactivity of Corporate Town in supporting the hard-pressed communities of the local left-behinds. Even Stevenage are doing the right thing. Even.

How's that tin ear a month on? The High Rollers of Humberston and Barons of Barnoldby-Le-Beck aren't even listening to Comrade Ollie following his conversion to Communism, where he demanded the revaluation of worth and work. Though as he's also a director perhaps he was just signalling that new contracts would be at severely reduced rates for mere "entertainers".

There's still nothing being done or said, just individual players doing things off their own back, with Billy Clarke's foodbank donation suggestion backed by all of the squad. Workers of the world unite. We'll have a game to win one day.

No, let's be positive and look forward to the recovery phase, when we get back to whatever a new normal will be.

I know that every single one of you are sure that those at the top of the wealth tree – you know the sort of people with big gardens who chop their chestnuts down to extend their decking – will be itching to contribute and to share the burden fairly.

Of course, they will now resolve to renounce all those devious devices they have used to avoid tax in the 'good times'. Especially those who are currently fighting HMRC's action to recover from tax avoidance schemes. Especially those who have admitted that they had participated in a tax avoidance scheme.

Now, wouldn't that be honourable. If not exactly a 'sacrifice', it would be doing the right thing.

Aren't we lucky that nobody associated with Town, or the council, is in that position.

There's literally nothing going on with, in or at Town. Though Elliott Whitehouse, having seen the eight match ban an Accrington player has received for rudely noting the nationality of a Rochdale cowboy, may be quaking at the consequences of talking Cobblers. We must seek truth and stand by that truth, no matter the cost.

In these tricky times of turmoil we must look towards the great leaders of the past for moral guidance. As Tricky Dickie said: "These are great goals. I believe we can, we must work for them. We can achieve them. But we cannot achieve these goals unless we dedicate ourselves to another goal. We must maintain our integrity as humans and that integrity must be real, not transparent".

There can be no whitewash with this Whitehouse.