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Diary - Monday 24 November 2003

24 November 2003

"The awareness and participation of females in football" is what the Football League is hoping to promote with its Supporters of Tomorrow scheme, and Town's contribution will be 'Ladies Day' - a title as inaccurate as it is excruciating because no fewer than two forthcoming home matches, on different days, will admit women for just a fiver and girls aged under 16 for free, free I tells ya. The games in question are against Tranmere on 29 November and Wrexham on 20 December. With the Mariners continuing to languish among the second division's worst supported clubs, new fans of either gender are sure to be a welcome sight at Blundell Park; but it is not known whether the club is to follow up this initiative with an exercise to encourage "the awareness and participation of Grimbarians in general", nor whether skint male fans are expected to cross-dress.

Iain Anderson is being looked at by GTFC medical staff after sliding into the advertising boards in Saturday's subaquatic victory at Brentford. The free-scoring winger suffered bumps and bruises, sore ribs and a little local breathing difficulty from his rendezvous with the perimeter, says Paul Groves to the Grimsby Telegraph, adding: "There was concern early on that there was something wrong with his head." Which is absolutely gagging for a witty Diary punchline, but there's also something a bit wrong with my head after the weekend I've just had, so I'll just have to let it go begging.