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Diary - Saturday 4 October 2003

4 October 2003

A huge turnout of five and a half thousand fans demonstrate why Town's proposed 20,000-capacity new stadium can't be built quickly enough and see the Mariners come within seconds of a fourth consecutive clean sheet when a 94th-minute goal from Eric Sabin breaks the deadlock to hand QPR a first ever win at Blundell Park. A game controlled largely by the home side is otherwise notable only for the return of long-term injury victim Iain Anderson as a 74th-minute substitute. The result keeps North East Lincs' finest in the lower mid-table doldrums; and having seen three home defeats by the first week of October even more optimistic fans could now be starting to discount Town's chances of an immediate return to Division One. "Capital Punishment For Fighting Mariners" says a headline on the club's official site, floating the grisly prospect of a public execution for Tony Crane and Darren Barnard.

Does anyone know a good, free local-rate dial-up ISP? I've got a really good deal with Tiscali that costs a fiver a month for unmetered peak-time access, but the one I have to use at weekends is crap and keeps packing in. I've had to dial up about 19 pigging times today.

Right - I'm off to watch that Raising Victor Vargas and then see if I can talk Mrs Diary into a curry. See ya Monday.