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Diary - Friday 17 January 2003

17 January 2003

John Elsom - the former chairman of Leicester who recently joined the board at GTFC - has stood down from his position as director on the board of the Football League. The decision apparently stems from a move by Division One chairmen to appoint their own chief executive to market the Football League's top division as the flagship of blah blah blah whatever, and is not thought to be a protest against the league's ban on Michael Boulding wearing the number 9 shirt.

BBC Humber Sport reports that custard custodian Danny Coyne will be fit to face Millwall at Blundell Park tomorrow, having recovered from a back strain sustained in Tuesday's thrashing at Turf Moor. Which is quite funny, because the Diary made up that injury as a joke the other day. We wouldn't like to put two and two together and come up with 59 goals against, but it does make you wonder...

One-time Town defender and purveyor of hot GTFC gossip to the clubgoers of Cleethorpes Mark Lever is chewing over an offer from his current club Mansfield Town to have his contract paid up. The Stags, interestingly, are the only club in England to have conceded more goals than Town this season. Get the feeling they're trying to tell you something, Plug?