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25 August 2021

Town have announced that Ian Fleming is stepping down as Chief Operating Officer. What do you do when it's your diary but you've spent the day chucking stuff in your garden skip and fighting off passing randomers doing the same while others rummage in it to pilfer knackered trellis? Step one is for Daubney Diary to message the CA team for ideas. The leading starter for ten was "see the news about Ian Fleming?". Let's rummage around and see if I can pilfer a diary out of it.

A question sometimes asked during the Fenty regime was "What exactly does Ian Fleming do?". The fairest answer might that he spent most of the time with his head in hands muttering "FFS" like the rest of us. Personal experience of dealing with him found an organised, amenable and helpful chap who seemed to be trapped working in the house of fun on a travelling fair. These two worlds collide outside of GTFC by the way. In evidence, thanks to John Tondeur for pointing us to this gem from Barnet FC.

The appointment of a CEO and the changes that came with it were probably always going to be a tricky for Fleming to adapt to but after 38 years he's certainly served his time at a club he loves. All at GTFC should thank him and wish him well.

There's not a lot else happening in the build-up to our first fixture of the season but the club have also announced that over three thousand season tickets have now been sold. Step two to pad out a diary is to embed an interesting tweet. Mark Stilton has taken a break from the Fenty Years to fire up his suped-up Commodore 64 to produce the following useful illustration. Thanks Mark.

The final step in the emergency build-a-diary kit is to publish someone else's article and spend a paragraph near the end plugging it. Allow me to introduce the first Rough Guide of the season, it's Rich Mills's Weymouth.

Back to the garden. UTM.