Dear Diary

Wednesday 17th January 2024

Weighed into an online discussion about the time we had a large lead at the top of the Conference at Christmas before falling away over the last couple of months.  Different people seem to remember what actually happened in many different ways.  I've heard otherwise sensible Poppies fans claim we were as many as 15-20 points clear after leaving Boston with out customary 3-points.  One today managed to mix something like three different seasons together and claim that we were 10 points clear with 4-games to go at the top after beating Lincoln City and still blew the League.... Reminded me of seeing a video of addled-Gazza telling how he managed Kettering to a relegation during his 39 days here....

Memory is a curious thing.  And another thing memory is, is curious.

Thursday 18th January 2024

After a week of shedding players the news comes through that Nuneaton Borough have resigned from the League.  Not entirely unexpected, but still utterly shocking at the same time.

Feel guilty that after feeling incredibly sad for Boro and their fans for all of two minutes, I wonder how their demise will impact our League standings and chances of avoiding relegation.  Only natural I guess, but I'm not proud to be thinking such thoughts.

Attended the latest Fans Forum where any potential bolshiness from the floor was tempered by the Nuneaton situation.  If them.  Why not us?  Particularly as we seemingly don't play home games anymore.  Oh, and the potential for flashpoints greatly reduced by the fact that our biggest loudmouth keyboard warriors have an aversion to attending Latimer Park.

Meeting quickly adopted the traditional format.  Club bigwig spells out how precarious things are.  Second bigwig makes it clear we need to redouble our efforts to attend off-field club events.  Manager and Captain apologise for team playing crap.  The usual.  Questions requested from the floor, where it takes ages for the first hand to go up but once it has the dam is burst and the oft-asked questions are asked until the meeting is called to an end when the same questions have their second or third airing.  Still can't work up the nerve to ask anything out loud.  Bottler.

Friday 19th January 2024

You can tell that we have a home game this weekend as the temperature has dropped to minus 42 degrees and even polar bears are wearing scarfs.  It seems that the build-up to every home game is greeted by Biblical-level flooding or the dawning of another ice age.

Saturday 20th January 2024

To no-one's surprise the game against Stamford is called off.  Shame, as I was looking forward to

Stamford - lovely town.  Crap people

meeting up again with the pig-ignorant arseholes that seem to make up most of Stamford's support.  Once got offered "outside" by one of their delightful followers for questioning his horribly sexist, racist and homophobic exclamations and then basically told to f*ck off by another Stamfordian when I jokingly asked why he was huddled under an umbrella long after the rain had stopped.  

Bought some Poppies online raffle tickets of some description.  Don't expect to win.

Sunday 21st January 2024

Saw an unofficial League table showing Nuneaton's results removed and, if accurate, we are lifted out of the relegation zone.  The way we are playing this was the only way we were ever going to be thus elevated.  A lot of teams around us have suffered points deductions by having their wins against Nuneaton expunged.  I'd feel wore had the same not happened to us about a thousand years ago when Newport County went bust.

Obviously weather today is 10 degrees warmer then yesterday....