Cod Almighty | Diary

Standing in the way

4 November 2020

It is Wednesday, one of our diarists appears to be missing and Domestic Diary is too tired even to come up with a laboured joke about people refreshing the CA home page almost as often as the US election results websites. That's what comes of getting up at 2.30am, spending an hour realising that is 59 minutes too long in the company of Andrew Neil and some minor US politicos, the only ones with the time to talk to us Limeys across the pond, going back to bed but not being able to get back to sleep again.

So first things first, and Town beat Barrow last night. You know more about that than me as I've still not reconciled myself to watching football from an empty stadium on a laptop. So my liking for Montel Gibson is entirely groundless, but will persist as long as he makes fairly frequent appearances in the goals column. Who is your favourite player you have never actually seen play? If I was Middle-Aged Diary, I could spin out four paragraphs here about some now-forgotten outside left from the 1920s, but I'm not.

And then there were two. Terry Taylor has joined Harry Clifton in the Wales Under-21 squad for their games against Moldova and Germany on 13 and 17 November. Again, this is really Middle-Aged Diary's department, but he's probably researching family histories to check out Montel Gibson's Welsh nan.

Less good news is that Grimsby Town Women's fixtures have been suspended for the duration of the national lockdown. As ever, Dale Houlston can be foind on the official website saying sensible things about the situation, not apparently seeing it as his job to double as a stand-up comedian.

Right, that's your lot. Log off now and you might get the second half of the stiff's game against Huddersfield. Last time I saw we were one goal down.

Cheers.