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Diary - Saturday 17 January 2004

17 January 2004

With Peter Furneaux having voted some confidence to Paul Groves after Town's recent humiliation at Wycombe, the Diary wonders whether the latter's resignation as both manager and player may not be long in coming after a 5-1 thumping at Port Vale this afternoon. The Mariners' central midfield boasts a combined age of 70, with Groves lining up alongside Nick Daws, returning for a second spell on loan to replace Alan Pouton, whose transfer to first division Gillingham was announced this morning. Jason Crowe returns at left-back while Iffy Onuora replaces the injured Michael Boulding up front. In its now characteristic surrender mode, the Town defence ships three goals in the first 33 minutes before a Phil Jevons effort gives cause for brief and foolish hope. One-time GTFC trialist Marc Bridge-Wilkinson, inevitably, doubles his goals tally for the season by nabbing two of the home side's handful. Slipping to 18th place in the table, and in a worse run of form, arguably, than all of the sides below them, the Mariners are now staring a second successive relegation in the face.

On a cheerier note, Cod Almighty has found itself catapulted with a great big catapult into the national media spotlight limelight floodlight thing, thanks to its world exclusive about top pop combo Atomic Kitten, er, performing at Blundell Park before the Wrexham game next week. So a big Diary hello - and, of course, a shameless but friendly invitation to purchase a CA T-shirt - to anyone visiting us after reading about the site in this morning's Guardian! Does this mean the story about the Kittens isn't real, then?