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Diary - Friday 13 December 2002

13 December 2002

As reported in this very diary on Wednesday, it's all change at the back again for tomorrow's trip to the home of Deepdale Duck. Macca's not going to make it, so Ford is going to deputise at right-back - supposing he stops feeling 'poorly' - a worrying phrase, as in a hospital the next phase to 'poorly' is 'death'. This means that Groves will probably pick himself to start in central defence. Rumours are that you can get one of those sliding tile puzzles with Town's formation on. There are 58 possible solutions.

While we're on the subject of solutions, Cape Verde colossus Georges Santos may start in midfield - to put the 'Grrrr' into 'Grimsby', no doubt. Elsewhere in midfield Barnard has supposedly taken a knock in training and Campbell is coming down with a chest infection. The Diary recommends thicker shinpads and two spoonfuls of Compound Linctus. The temporary solution, however, may be Terry 'squad member' Cooke.

In other news, the official site reports that Weaver Wroot, the Mariners' accountants, have started selling match tickets from their offices in Louth, Barton, Mablethorpe and Grimsby. A bonus for Town fans who live outside of the metropolis itself, who can now collect match tickets "while doing their normal shopping". Weaver Wroot will be selling the tickets in the spare time they have after enumerating GTFC's billions.

UEFA is meddling again. Its latest weed-induced scheme is for clubs to be forced to field 50 per cent of their team made up of their own youth system graduates. Do they get bored at UEFA HQ or what?

And finally, as Trevor McDonald used to wryly pronounce, Teamtalk is bizarrely reporting that Town's reserves are due to play Lincoln yesterday. That's right, that's 'yesterday' as in 'Monday'. Teamtalk - football's version of Ask Jeeves.