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Diary - Tuesday 3 June 2003

3 June 2003

Town's Stacy Coldicott could be set for a dream move to Spain's glamorous Primera Liga after the player's wife announced her love for Barcelona. Steph was distinctly heard to voice her partiality to the city in last night's Big Brother, and the Catalan giants' press office is yet to deny rumours of a move for the Redditch-born midfield workhorse. Stacy, that is, not Steph. Well, that's how it works with David Beckham, isn't it?

Rather more plausibly, if you insist on burdening my poetic soul with your wearisome demands for prosaic fact and reality, Danny Coyne might be off to Coventry, reckons the Grimsby Telegraph. Mind you, their insistence that John McDermott was certainly, undoubtedly, effo deffo going to Hull turned out to be pretty fanciful, didn't it. The Diary is delighted to note the Telegraph's report recalling that Coyne "issued a 'come-and-get-me' plea" to Burnley at the weekend - which, given what I wrote at the time, means that either I am quite extraordinarily perceptive or Stuart Rowson is playing games with me. Either way, it's pretty satisfying.

Mention of Stu reminds me that Sheffield Wednesday have "entered the race" - as it would be phrased if the Diary were a tabloid - to sign John McDermott, according to BBC Humber Sport. After all this fart-arsing about, though, the Diary officially no longer cares what Macca does. He'd be a rubbish signing for Wednesday anyway, in the same way he would have been a really good signing for Hull. Does that make sense? It does to me, damn it.

TEAmtAlK, or however the hell it is they mix upper and lower case letters, seems to have stopped making up really laughable stories about Town in recent months, but worthy of mention in today's Diary is its new amusingly misspelt headline. It's nice to know they've still got it.

And finally, I have been asked to make clear that if Town start running out next season to records by The Verve then the Diary, for one, will either take an overdose or go and support Hull - both painful, but both preferable. Goodbye for now.