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Diary - Monday 28 April 2003

28 April 2003

Town's accounts receive a much-needed boost with the news that Sky TV is to screen this Sunday's first division swansong against Brighton. In the second flight's one remaining promotion/relegation/play-off place issue, the Seagulls will stay up if they take three points from Blundell Park and Stoke lose at Reading; and the prurient Sky cameras have been unhealthily keen on final-day close-ups of fans' relegation agony for some seasons now. GTFC will receive £60,000 in rights money from the megalomaniac broadcaster, which might go some way towards keeping Georges Santos at the club next season.

Those Diary readers of a more trainspottery bent will doubtless be grateful for the knowledge that two of Town's former loan players etched their names indelibly onto the scoresheet over the weekend. Jason Gavin, the Middlesbrough defender who spent two months with the Mariners over the winter, was on the mark for his current loan club Huddersfield against Port Vale; but a better guide to his playing ability is probably to be found in the five that Vale knocked in. Meanwhile another central defender, Andy Todd - the man who brought us such joy at Molineux a year ago - did his bit to redeem the Diary's disastrous season in fantasy football by converting a cross from Damian Duff in Blackburn's 3-2 win at Leeds. Good gracious - ace alliteration.

Let's take the pressure out of the Diary's bulging inbox now, and tear it open lasciviously with our teeth. First up, a reaction to wot I wrote on Saturday: "another fine Diary, my friend," begins the email, "wonder if you'll get any mails accusing you of racism for that first sentence?" Surely only a lover of cryptic crosswords would make the connection though? Another reader asks: "Could the Diary put out an appeal to find out what Keane has tattooed across his shoulders please? From where I was sat it looked like Arsenal, in that big fancy typescript that tattooists like to use." Any readers who have an intimate familiarity with Michael Keane's body are asked to email codalmightydiary@yahoo.co.uk and put our correspondent out of their misery.