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Diary - Tuesday 13 June 2006

13 June 2006

Being Middle-Aged Diary, I am more or less old enough to write: "It weren't like this in my day," and it is perhaps with people like me in mind that the official site describes the new kit as "a new design in the traditional black and white stripes". For those of you not in a position to look, the very broad "stripes" look rather like quarters, running down the length of the shirt. The use of a model (that's the one in the home strip, not the away one, which resembles Arsenal's strip of last season) manages to duck such issues as what colour shorts and socks we'll be wearing. Now if they are ditching the red socks, that will get me impersonating a Grimbarian Fred Trueman.

The woman in the inappropriate footwear is not our first signing of the summer, but that sense of deflation when the word 'signing' is not used for a new player is today entirely inappropriate: that is the headline for the entirely welcome news that Gary Croft has signed a one-year deal to remain at Blundell Park. John Fenty also prompts us to expect more re-signings in the near future, perhaps including Steve Mildenhall.

More jam in the near future with the club having interviewed two prospective Graham Rodger number twos and expecting to appoint someone soon.

If watching the world's best players does nothing for you, you won't be at all interested in the news that pre-season matches against Doncaster, Lincoln and Rotherham have been lined up, and will probably just carry on watching the World Cup instead.

Which is what I am going to do now. Good luck.