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Diary - Saturday 15 March 2003

15 March 2003

Paul Groves' Indian summer continues as the 37-year-old Town player-manager fires his third goal in five games and his second of the week to give his side three points against Watford at Blundell Park this afternoon. A pitiful sub-5,000 crowd sees the same 4-5-1 line-up that came so close to a win at the City Ground in midweek survive intense periods of pressure from the Hornets before PG back-heels home from a John Oster cross on 64 minutes.

The win lifts Town off bottom spot in Division One as good old Ipswich emerge victorious from Hillsborough this afternoon. Brighton's tremendous run of form continues with a 1-0 win over Forest, while Stoke pick up a good point from their clash with Sheffield United to remain ahead of the Mariners on goal difference.

By the way, the wedding was quite nice, as it turned out. The Diary made friends with a Lincoln fan called Andy who apparently slacks his way with impressive nonchalance through evening shifts editing FT.com; and by the time the live band declared their nefarious intentions by opening with a Travis number, the Diary was too leathered on Murphy's and scotch to care.