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Diary - Tuesday 31 December 2002

31 December 2002

Good news - John Oster may be included on tomorrow's teamsheet! Good news, that is, if you're a Sunderland fan.

Yes, yesterday's stop press entry has been confirmed - we've been unceremoniously dumped again. The older, richer, and better-looking ex-boyfriend snaps his fingers, and off she runs back to him, even though he treated her so badly before… O! Will they never learn…?
Still, we should be getting used to this sort of thing by now, eh, so let's not sulk in our bedrooms, listening to The Smiths - there are plenty more fish in the sea. Well, not strictly true, what with the stocks of cod being severely depleted, but you know what I mean.

Optimistic Mariners fans will now be looking forward to the arrival of the next forgotten reserve team bench-warmer upon whom Paul Groves will work his alchemy. Pessimists may point out that there are only ten loans allowed this season, and that we're going to reach that limit before long. Whoever the next loan player may be, the Diary would like to make this plea: be good, but please, don't be too good.

Finally, it's been a year since Groves took over at Town - once that bloke off Channel Four's 'Faking It' tried his hand at football management and failed miserably. What was his name now....? Leonard Loser or something. But anyway, a year in, the Diary thinks Mr Groves has done rather well. Keep it up. And us too, if possible, please.