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Diary - Tuesday 12 January 2010

12 January 2010

After Adrian Forbes' attack on Town's medical set-up yesterday, GTFC physio Dave Moore has hit back at the injured player, presumably in such a way as to avoid exacerbating the existing damage to his broken right leg. Despite Forbes' extended riff on self-pity in yesterday's Grimsby Telegraph ("Oooh, ow, me leg... I might not see out my contract, actually"), there was an odd sense of a half-arsed controversy concocted, and Moore's words in the paper today pour a healing balm over a sore that has failed to weep in any sort of convincing way at all. "You can't legislate for the x-rays not picking up the fracture - it's something that can happen and isn't uncommon," explains the sponge-bearer today, shrugging extravagantly as he hurls a heavy medicine ball towards Adrian Forbes' groin.

Robbie Stockdale, meanwhile - whose presence in the Grimsby Town first XI seems to correlate interestingly with the team being a bit less shit - is to undergo a hernia operation today, and did you realise the last time Town won in the league was the last time Stockdale played? Completing a hat-trick of injury-related Telewag tales for Tuesday, Adam Proudlock has commented on the unfortunate damage he has suffered in two separate incidents at Blundell Park this season. Reflecting philosophically on the ankle ligament injury he sustained by slipping near the dug-outs during the game against Burton, and the facial wound he received in a clash of heads while celebrating the goal against Bury with Damien McCrory, the 28-year-old Shropshire-born forward said: "Cuh, eh?"

Nicky Featherstone has, as widely anticipated, renewed his loan to GTFC for another month. After initially declining a temporary switch across the Humber, but then enjoying his time at Blundell Park so much that he can't stay away, the King$ton Communication$ FC midfielder is now expected to line up in an advert produced by GTFC as a promotional tool for persuading other half-decent young players at clubs higher up the league that their immediate future lies being loaned out to Grimsby Town.

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