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Diary - Wednesday 15 January 2003

15 January 2003

No complaints - rather than Town cup dream is over - is the headline on Town's official site as it reports Paul Groves' reaction to last night's FA Cup replay against Burnley. The manager's prime objective of getting through the match without losing any players to injury may have been achieved, pending the results of a scan on Danny Coyne's back after the Town keeper picked the ball out of the net for the 59th time this season as the Clarets completed a straightforward 4-0 rout. "We came here to give it a go but we weren't good enough, Burnley were the better side and deserved their win, ya-di-ya-di-ya, bye!" said Groves.

Town's convenient cup exit means that the Fans' Day match at home to Bradford - postponed on new year's day after several days of crummy weather - can now take place on Saturday 25 January, the day of the fourth round. It just gets better and better, doesn't it.

The numbskull who passed for a referee in last Saturday's visit to Selhurst Park insists that the goal Stuart Campbell is claiming as his own should go down in the record books as an own goal by Franchise FC defender Trond Andersen. Something to do with the deflection and the ball's clear line to the goal. The Diary couldn't give a bugger, though, to be brutally honest.