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Diary - Wednesday 30 October 2002

30 October 2002

Radio Humberside's John Tondeur is summoned for an early morning appearance on Radio Five Live to try and explain last night's unearthly goings-on at Blundell Park, where Town's pre-Hallowe'en clash with Burnley ended in an utterly bizarre 6-5 home win. Despite some heart-warmingly generous defending, Town were never behind in the game, thanks to goals from Steve Kabba (2), Steve Livingstone, Stuart Campbell, Alan Pouton and Simon Ford. "It was like a game of netball!" a still shell-shocked Tondeur tells the nation. The win puts the Mariners within striking distance of the teams immediately above them in the table.

Tondeur's appearance is followed by a short interview with Danny Coyne, in which the custard custodian is fatuously asked whether last night's game means he is the new David Seaman. "No," replies Dan shrewdly, "I'm Welsh." Burnley's English goalkeeper Marlon Beresford is nowhere to be heard.

Town's share of money from the new highlights package agreed this week with the villainous slags of ITV will be around £110,000. After the thrills and spills of last night GTFC might be well advised to invest it in a loan defender, as an injury to fourth-choice centre-half Paul Raven saw Town play most of the game with Tony Gallimore in the middle of the back line.

Cod Almighty today heartily congratulates Wimbledon supporters, whose boycott of Charles Koppel's loathsome franchise operation triumphed spectacularly last night as the official attendance for Milton Keynes FC's meeting with Rotherham was given as a league record low of 849. Power to the fans and the AFC! Meanwhile the Grimsby population's resolute boycott of GTFC proves almost as successful, with the club's innovative and indeed prophetic efforts to market last night's game as 'Fright Night' - with all kinds of free ticket offers and goodies for the kids - pulling in a 'crowd' of just 5,620.