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Diary - Monday 16 July 2007
16 July 2007
The build-up has begun to the 2007-08 season - the Mariners' most keenly anticipated campaign for years, in the Diary's house at least. Buckley's battlers got their programme of pre-season friendlies off to a good start on Friday night with a 3-1 win at Brigg Town, with most of the squad getting at least half a game. While the scoresheet registered the names of Danny North (2) and Straight Peter Bore, it was Peter Till who earned perhaps the most approving mentions from Town fans at the game, and on-trial defender Stevland Angus is generally acknowledged to have looked the part. If you believe the 'latest news' index on the club's superb new official website then "Town eased to a comfortable victory at Brigg", but if you click the link and check out the OS's actual match report then you are informed immediately that "Grimsby Town began their pre-season with hard-fought 3-1 victory at Brigg Town". Officials at Blundell Park are often accused of being behind the times, but it is surely an encouraging sign that the club's own website is clearly acknowledging the multiplicity of viewpoints and existential scepticism around the concept of objective truth that characterise today's pluralistic, post-modern society.
One regular member of the team not involved at Brigg was Ciaran Toner, who was otherwise engaged with representing Northern Ireland for the first time since 2003, when he lined up against Italy and Spain while on the books at Leyton Orient. The opponents this time were non-international Everton, so it is unlikely that this friendly will have earned Toner a third official cap, but the Town midfielder is clearly in the thoughts of new NI manager Nigel Worthington and did enough to stay on the pitch for 85 minutes. The Mariners' superb new official website performed rather less well, sadly, including in its account of Toner's call-up the news that his club football is played at "Grimbsy Town". Officials at Blundell Park are often accused of being behind the times, but it is surely an encouraging sign that the club's own website is finally adopting one of the most widely used modern misspellings of the club's own name.
"Tommy who?" asks Rich Mills in an email to the Diary. Rich is responding to the news of Sir John McDermott being overlooked for the job of Boston United team manager in favour of Tommy Taylor. "Looks a bit like the bloke off Ground Force to me," he adds. My God! You're right!
Finally today, the Diary would like to hear from any readers who are able to offer advice on the potential plagiarism of editorial concepts pioneered by Cod Almighty. Thankyou!