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Diary - Monday 22 May 2006

22 May 2006

Ticket sales for... um... what was it again... some game of football or other have topped 8,000, reports the Mariners' official website, but sales have been a little slower than club bigwigs anticipated. "I feel that this time round fans are not panicking like Wembley because concessions are available in the whole stadium," says GTFC accounts manager Steve Wraith, glancing worriedly at a pile of 15,000 unsold tickets. Steve also offers the weekend's rotten weather as an explanation for Town's tardy ticket take-up, but the Diary is tempted to mention the Millennium Stadium's deceptively exploitative pricing policy (concessions notwithstanding, remember that two thirds of seats cost at least 30 quid) and what sounds increasingly like a nightmare journey. We all follow the Grimsby over land and sea, not to mention Yorkshire; but nobody mentioned south Wales on a Sunday with engineering works in place on the rail network.

As some of you may have seen in Saturday's Grimsby Telegraph, the £350 fee payable to the FA for Gary Jones' red card appeal tomorrow has been forked up by this website as an act of support for the magnificent Lumpaldinho and the rest of the team. The congratulatory emails have been literally trickling in, and tasteful Town fans wishing to pat us on the back for our incredible gesture of kindness are urged to invest in one or both of our splendid new T-shirts. It is because of your support in buying CA fashionwear that we've been able to put up the Lump money; the garment sales also keep us online by paying for the hosting of this site; and most importantly of all, they look bloody great. There is a good chance (though not a guarantee, OK, and subject to stock levels) that orders received by tonight can be sent out in time for Cardiff, so carry on consuming.

So if you've still got money to spend after shelling out on your tickets and travel to Cardiff, accommodation in one of the city's charming hotels, a lifetime's supply of tooth-rotting, obesity-inducing fizzy drink, and your Matt Tees and I heart GY T-shirts, why not also avail yourself of one of these magnificent garments? After Durham Diary's inquiries for a Glen Downey T-shirt last week, Mr C 'Nutty' Nuttall of TBZAS has emailed to let us know that his organisation has been vending this fine item of clothing since just after the great one's finest moment at Wrexham on New Year's Eve. But how can we buy them, Nutty?

And finally today, Phil Jevons has signed for Bristol City, if you're interested. You aren't? But what if it means the Robins will call off their chase for Luton's Michael Reddy? They won't? Oh. All right then.