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27 July 2021

If you want something to read about Grimsby Town today, it really should be this: Pete Green's interview with Jason Stockwood for When Saturday Comes.

Elsewhere, "forgotten" Grimsby defender Ludvig Öhman has found a club in the Swedish second flight, Falkenberg. Perhaps there was a special provision in Treasury rules on support for businesses during Covid covering players who Ian Holloway just didn't rate, as Öhman was apparently placed on furlough by Town in November, despite the full programme of matches we were playing at the time.

Bless them, but Gainsborough Trinity prove we are still big enough to be the object of inverted snobbery. They feel moved to describe how, by signing for them, Jock Curran is joining "the real GTFC". To be fair, using #gtfc on a Saturday afternoon must be a frustration for Trinity fans. Pretty frustrating for Town fans as well, now Domestic Diary thinks about it.

Clubs with far bigger budgets than the two GTFCs combined also have fragile egos. Town's next friendly is at Hyde United on Friday evening, and tickets are a bargain £4, £5 if you want to sit. That's the same club we ran up against the last time we were in the conference but then they travelled as plain "Hyde". They'd had money pumped into them by Manchester City, who could not bear to countenance the word "United".

In further friendly news, our last before the season proper starts will be at Chesterfield on 14 August. And in non-news news, Paul Hurst doesn't know when we'll have a new striker.

Right, time to re-read the Jason Stockwood interview and ponder why John Fenty never said anything like "My personal narrative is how I've reconciled my natural socialism with my learnt capitalism". I wonder if that Pete Green could be persuaded to write for Cod Almighty?