Cod Almighty | Diary

Tiffany, you said that you had an epiphany

7 January 2026

Yeah. I'm a gloater. 

Last week I said that we suffered from having four men on the wing interchanging two-yard passes for half an hour and then one man on his heels in the box when the ball eventually came in. So how did we win against Fleetwood? One ball out. One man on wing. A quick cross. Loads of people in the box. Listen up, Klopp, Pep, Mourinho, Wenger, Lasso: BOTB Diary is the man for management and tactics. And no, I don't think 'guru' is too strong a word. Cheers.  

So what else is happening? Very little. It's the transfer window, but we've another 24 days before we sign an injured midfielder from Oldham reserves at 11.59pm. We haven't another league game for 10 days, but seven points over Christmas has eased the plummeting so we can all probably relax a bit now. If you don't look out of the window (house not transfer) and remember it's pissing January, God's biggest calendar-related mistake, all is reasonably alright with the world. Honestly, if we all left Christmas behind and went straight into February everybody would be fine with it. Sort it Gods!

On Saturday we face the Western Supermayors, who are, as Fluff Freeman would have put it, reigning supreme at number two in the National League South. They are higher than Torquay, Dover, Maidstone and many other teams we've been on losing terms with in the past, and not to be taken lightly. As long we follow the BOTB guide to footy management, however, we have to be favourites, which will lead to a nice little day of pay for the club, somewhere in the field of 115,000 smackeroonies. Not that I'm writing off the Mayors. I've no beef with the Mayors. I'm down with the Mayors. Don't come at me, Mayors. I just think we ought to beat them. Unless we have a total mayor. Did that joke work? I've looked at it three times and I can't decide.

To pad out a quiet news day I was going to insert some pictures of Town players past and future celebrating Epiphany which was of course yesterday. Couldn't find one. Because of Malvolio in Twelfth Night wearing yellow stockings, I was going to insert a picture of Town in yellow stockings. Couldn't find that either. So here's a picture of the Mighty Mariner waving a fish. You know, Jesus, loaves, fishes. Whatever. I don't get paid for this you know.