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Diary - Saturday 8 November 2003

8 November 2003

A cockle-warming team performance at Blundell Park sees the Mariners through to the second round of the FA Cup at QPR's expense, with a tenth goal of the season for Michael Boulding after 80 minutes of almost total Town dominance proving sufficient to separate the sides. In the first half at least one good GTFC penalty call is waved away by a weak and card-happy referee, who weirdly transmogrifies into a homer after the interval. After dishing out some criticism to Tony Crane earlier this season the Diary feels compelled to record that the bloody great big centre-half has an excellent game today; while Iffy Onuora - who created Boulding's goal - and Stuart Campbell also stand out in a game watched by 20 per cent fewer spectators than official estimates had anticipated. Other points of interest include a pre-match Radio Humberside interview with Cod Almighty's Tony Butcher and the first appearance at a Town match by Stacy Coldicott since he busted his leg all those moons ago.

Be sure to tune in tomorrow as cup fever hits the Diary and a special Sunday edition brings you the hot news of Town's second round opponents, at some indeterminate point in the afternoon after I've woken up and my mum has made sausage sarnies and my head has cleared enough to type. Yeah!