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Diary - Thursday 20 February 2003

20 February 2003

Shaun Allaway, Paul Hyam, Kevin George, Ashley Hildred, Kirk Wheeler, Greg Young, Jonny Rowan, Andy Brabs, Jake Sagare, Graham Hockless, Stephen Downes, Robert Dickinson, Andy Pettinger, James Davy, Joe Lightowler and Giovanni Carchedi are the players who featured in yesterday's climatically unscathed reserves game with York, according to the Mariners' official site. The "pick of the bunch" of trialists on show was Kevin George, says the report - but given that he and Dickinson were the only trialists in the line-up, it was not a particularly difficult bunch to become the pick of. Whatever happened to Jimmy Ghaichem, Andy Kelly, Danny Self, Wayne Gill and, for that matter, Leon Trotsky? The Diary demands answers, damn it. Oh, Town won 2-0 by the way - Wheeler and Downes.

Evanescent Town hero Martin Pringle is at the centre of a legal flare-up over the career-wrecking foul by Stockport defender Dave Challinor that, er, wrecked his career. The surprise is that it is neither Challinor nor the pinhead of a referee who declined to punish him for the assault who are being sued, but former Tottenham and England defender Gary Stevens. Insurance firm Sportsure is umm-ing and ah-ing about paying out on Pringle's claim, and the player's advisers are talking about an action for negligence against Stevens, who sold Pringle the policy in question. The Diary only hopes Mart has better solicitors than the Football League's.

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