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Diary - Tuesday 28 January 2003

28 January 2003

Seismic midfield presence Georges Santos is set to return to the Town team for this Saturday's pasting at Portsmouth after recovering from the hamstring injury that has kept him out of action for the last month. That's the lead story in today's Grimsby Telegraph, which adds that suddenly competent left-back Darren Barnard will be a doubt for the trip south; although first-choice full-backs Tony Gallimore and John McDermott are also expected to return.

Town fan James Smith, who won the chance to have a match report published in the Telegraph in our Fans' Day prize draw, has a match report published in the Telegraph today. You can read it by clicking here. Congratulations, James; and thanks once again to everyone who helped Cod Almighty raise over £2,000 for the club through Fans' Day. You totally rock.

Sports minister Richard Caborn - the one who doesn't actually know anything about sport - has reasserted the Government's extremist neo-liberal economic policy by reminding Nationwide League clubs plunged into destitution by the scurrilous villainy of Carlton and Granada that they can expect no charity from him. "We are not in the business of going in to rescue any business, be it pits or steelworks," quotes the minister from his copy of 101 Great Quotations of Margaret Thatcher, "and football is no different." Er, and railways...?