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Diary - Monday 12 January 2004

12 January 2004

Hello, and a big welcome back to, er, me, your regular Diary. It's probably a good job all that work I had to do came along when it did, because I would doubtless have been provoked to words that would make your mother blush in a week when a number of Town supporters chose to prove their support for Town by writing letters to the Grimsby Telegraph stating that they weren't going to watch them play any more.

If only it worked both ways, as Saturday's rousing performance against Plymouth ought to have members of the Grimsby public who have never heard of Blundell Park queueing up for half-season tickets. Paul Groves' theme for Monday is that his side must now sustain the standards set at the weekend, with utterances to that effect both in the Telegraph and on the club's official site. Darren Mansaram comes in for particular praise, with the promising young striker's nickname offering Riby Square's finest the chance to headline a piece GROVES: PROVE IT'S NO FLASH IN THE PAN. Journalists, I mean, not prostitutes.

Mark Wilson brings the Diary's attention to an interview with Plymouth boss Paul Sturrock. "It's a difficult place to come, they've got some very good players," he says, though I suspect Mark's interest lies less with the splice comma placed after the word 'come' than with the Argyle manager's belief that Town "are in a false position in the league." Presumably Sturrock agrees with the Diary that 17th place belies our top-six-standard squad rather than intending to suggest that the Football League have got their sums wrong.

That's about it for today, then, other than some minor injury worries over Mansaram, Darren Barnard, Aidan Davison and, surprise surprise, Alan Pouton, but the Jellygraph reckons they'll all be fine for Port Vale this weekend. Monday's last word goes to Larry Kovacs, who has emailed the Diary to say: "After we had discovered the website of your company, we inspected your offer, which caught our attention, with great interest. We also provided this information to our business partners from regions where we perform our business activities. We were kindly surprised by a great interest and an enquiry for more particular information and sale propagation materiels. Therefore we would kindly ask for all possible info about your offer. In order to improve the quality of the sale and distribution of your offer, could you please send us all the possible material in printed version. We decided for this option, because Internet is not rather expanded in Eastern Europe." Yes, that's fine Larry, as long as you send us a photo of yourself wearing your Cod Almighty T-shirt in the middle of Bratislava.