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Diary - Wednesday 18 July 2007
18 July 2007
If you're feeling gloomy on another wet summer's day, reader, grab a nice cup of tea and a sit down with Danny North. Town's promising young striker is interviewed on Mariners World today ahead of this evening's game at Gainsborough and, bless his black and white boots, the lad just can't stop smiling. Whether he's describing his two goals at Brigg last Friday night, making fun of Straight Peter Bore's yellow footwear, or hoping his partially regrown hair will stop Alan Buckley ripping the piss out of him, young Danny's broad Grimsby accent is always underpinned by an infectious bloody great grin, lifting the Diary's frame of mind from morose to positively not too bad.
If only Town's superb new official website could keep us smiling instead of driving us to despair - today, quite literally. Ant Wood has emailed the Diary with regard to the directions given on the OS for supporters travelling by car to Gainsborough tonight. The directions are comprehensive and thorough, providing clear instructions on how to reach the ground from various starting points across England and concluding with a helpful word or two of advice about parking. So what's the problem, Ant? "If you follow them for tonight's game you will end up in Southport." Oh dear. That's 132 miles out if you're driving. Let's give Town's superb new official website a map to help them out.
The Diary, like most people these days, suffers from a severely shortened attention span and is thus grateful for any kind of distraction that might save me from having to concentrate on one task for more than a minute at a time. Imagine my pleasure this morning, then, when I discovered Town's superb new official website promising a new weekly email newsletter "delivered directly to your inbox every Friday afternoon". Keenly clicking through to sign up, I was presented with a form asking me to "register with the official site" or enter my username and password if I was already registered. Naturally, the Diary registered three or four years ago, when they introduced the registration scheme, so I entered my username and password - but was taken back to the front page of the site. From here I obediently clicked back through to the bit about the newsletter, only to be presented with the same form asking me to "register with the official site" or enter my username and password if I was already registered. Here I wondered whether, to receive the weekly newsletter, we may all need to register again even if we had been registered before, because Town have a superb new official website, and therefore, er, um. At this point my severely shortened attention span expired and I got up to put the kettle on, lost forever to the joys of Town's new weekly email newsletter. It's like one of Aesop's fables, isn't it?
"I think you're being harsh on the OS over the Winterton report," writes Mat Hare in an email to the Diary. "The trialist who scored for the Mariners could well be called Alex. Soccerbase informs me there are three Brazilians of that name, two Spaniards, plus one each from Portugal and Japan. It could be that we have one of them on trial. Having said that, Soccerbase also contains entries for a number of players called A Trialist so it's much more likely we have taken on a guy from East Stirlingshire or Stranraer. There is quite a nice article on Stevland Angus (see the lovely link from Scottish clubs to our new defender?) on the OS though. I hadn't realised Buckley has tried to nab him before and that he played with Terrell 'TJ' Forbes." It's just a transcript of Stev's Mariners World interview from last week, Mat, but yes, it is quite nice.