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Diary - Saturday 21 February 2004

21 February 2004

Colchester record their first league win for two and a half months as four changes to the GTFC line-up fail to produce the desired effect in a game watched by just 2,922 fans. Lee Thorpe makes a second start up front, while Darren Barnard and Mike Edwards return at the back, but Town's midfield has to suffice without canine influence after Stacy 'Yard Dog' Coldicott fails a late fitness test. The Mariners keep the home side at bay for 64 minutes - albeit at the cost of Tony Crane's 109th booking of the season - but Craig Fagan, on loan from Premiership Birmingham, puts the home side ahead, and Kemal Izzet pops up with a header deep into injury time to wrap up a 2-0 victory for the Us and deprive the Diary of eight points in our second division prediction league. Peterborough's unlikely 1-1 draw at Bristol City last night has brought them to within three points of the Mariners in Division Two's final safety spot.

It is with these gloomy tidings that the Diary bids you adieu for a week and hands over this column to the cheerful shed philosophising of Guest Diary, who will be the one to provide your daily digest of Mariners nonsense from Monday to Friday. May he live in interesting times. I'll be back next Saturday, so until then, take care of yourselves, don't let it get to you, and defy the forces of darkness by being nice to an asylum seeker. T'ra.