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Diary - Tuesday 23 September 2003

23 September 2003

Welcome to Tuesday's Diary - the internet's leading fan-based source of recycled GTFC news, even if I sleep in for a few days. Simon Ford is an early doubt for this weekend's visit to Hillsborough after limping off halfway through Town's exhilarating thrashing of Chesterfield last Saturday, says today's Grimsby Telegraph. The young centre-half, who has recently looked twice the player he was last season simply by virtue of playing next to Tony Crane, picked up a hamstring strain just before the interval and could be forced to sit out the whole Sheffield Wednesday trip, man, although Paul Groves elaborates: "He has not torn the hamstring - he has just tweaked it." Detuning it a semitone might help next time...and speaking of love vibrations, our fondest hopes that Mr Disco Des Hamilton may be considered for the next game could be realised. "We will see how he responds this week," says Grover, who has been leaving Des voicemails for a whole month.

Former Town forward Jake Sagare - well, 'former' as in he played one match for us - has had a familiar start to life at his new club Halifax. After a 1-0 defeat to Margate last Friday the wandering American has told the Yorkshire Evening Post: "The players are down but from what I have seen they are good players and you can't keep good players down." I'm sure I heard something similar around Blundell Park last season. Meanwhile Miles Moss has emailed the Diary to observe: "How odd. Harvey from So Solid Crew signs for Ford Utd, and now footballer Jake Sagare signs for the Shamen."

As you will have figured by now, there's not a lot happening Blundell Park way this week; but right-minded Mariners may be cheered by the news from the other end of the M180 that their former leader Mr Brian Laws could be in hot water after spouting off at the fourth official as his new side Scunthorpe stuttered to a weekend draw with a moribund Leyton Orient. "I may have said one or two words that weren't appropriate," chuckles the one-time Forest full-back, after demonstrating that he still has a lot of growing up to do with a petulant outburst of rage that was reported to result from the award of a penalty to the London side but which some observers believe stemmed from Laws' hair being ruffled by Barry Hearn.