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Diary - Thursday 22 January 2009

22 January 2009

Idle Diary writes: Apologies for the slight delay; just had to buy some raspberry canes. Unless you're also a keen gardener, ignore that last bit. Let's just crack on, shall we?

"After not losing this week and actually gaining ground on the other lesser sides in our division, including two of the three nominees for the Gordon Brown Fiscal Prudence In Football Award, I felt strangely at ease," starts James Parrot's email, without which your Thursday Diary would have amounted to no more than the opening paragraph. "I quickly came to the conclusion that this wouldn't do. It is with some relief then that I turned on Sky Sports News - and imagine my indignation - and found nothing on the Town's mooted bid for Kaka! I couldn't believe it! No mention at all of the £100 million of seafood ready meals to be shared between the player, his father, parish priest, valet, 43 agents and Silvio Berlusconi. Honestly, this bias toward the bigger clubs is sickening! I will never watch Sky Sports News again!" Idle Diary applauds anyone who can shun facets of the Evil Murdoch Media Empire, but Comrade Parrott has found the best reason yet. Fear not though, any like-minded fans. Who needs Kaka when we have the bashful Nathan Jarman?

Following on from Jonathan Spurr's attempts to get the kick-off of the Town-Lincoln game moved back to the more sensible 3pm (as reported in Tuesday's Guest Diary), Mark Wilson feels moved to observe: "The cyclists would have to leave Blundell Park at 4:30am to get to Lincoln for a 12:00 kick-off? Lincoln's 30-odd miles away which means they're expecting to do an average speed of less than five miles an hour. A fit human can walk at four miles an hour. Are they spending too long having breaks? Are they walking up all the hills? Do they have to have a drink in every pub they pass? Honestly, the youth of today..." Problem is, Mark, at a steady average pace of eight miles per hour, these lads will still need to be on the road at seven o'clock. And there aren't that many pubs open in Lincolnshire before eleven o'clock. Sorry to be a killjoy, but the idea of the club moving the starting time back to something like the norm on account of some fans biking to the game seems strangely appealing. However, if I was to walk to that game, I'd need to take the Friday off. Here starts the campaign for a Sunday lunchtime kick-off!