Cod Almighty | Diary

Not the bluebird of happiness, that's for sure

15 July 2022

Hello, it's BOTB here, currently testing positive for the dreaded Covids but feeling pretty much the same as usual (slightly grotty), to be honest. Will I make Lincoln on Tuesday? More importantly, will I make fish and chips before the match on Tuesday? It's a nailbiter to be sure.

It's going to be very hot over the next few days. No matter if it turns out to be the hottest day in the 21st century you can still guarantee one thing – a short drive around Grimsby will reveal several people wearing coats. What is going on in their heads, do you reckon? Perhaps you are one of the coat wearers and you can explain the mentality to me. Someone suggested to me it was a drug thing but, to be honest, few of the overdressed lunatics look like addicts. They look like normal people who have made inexplicable wardrobe choices.

All of the above flannel cannot disguise the fact that it is the close season. Unless you are sweating with excitement about the forthcoming Alfreton friendly, it is likely that you are saving yourself for the real spills, thrills, pills and bellyaches of the new season. We might be buying Kieran Green from Halifax, we've made a good deal of money by being promoted, we have a new away kit which is blue and green. Every new seaon signing we have made is injured, probably. You'll know all this. You, dear reader, are up to speed.

The big question is – is John Fenty an albatross or a vulture? In one Fishy thread he is described as both in consecutive replies to an unrelated question. If we had performed badly last season, I think vulture would have been a good term, since he would indeed have been hanging around the remains of our football club picking off whatever meat he could find. Since that is clearly far from the case, and since he has been draped over our neck like a toilet seat around a gurner, I'm going to go with JF being an albatross.

Yes, John Fenty is an albatross. If you take nothing else away from this diary  (apart from the usual feeling of mild disappointment) you can at least know we have answered that conundrum.