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Diary - Tuesday 31 August 2004

31 August 2004

Not much to tell you about today, other than the launch of a fantastic new Cod Almighty T-shirt, so it's time to catch up with a few of your emails from the last few days.

The Press Association's Richard Blee apologises for his organisation putting Town into something called League One last week, with the result that the rest of the known universe followed syndicated suit. Hey, it's fine by us, Rich; if GTFC sneak off to play Port Vale instead of Rochdale this weekend maybe nobody will notice. "I'm afraid that the company that allows me to buy my daily bread, yet strangely makes me want to do evil rather than deliver me from it, is responsible for the temporary promotion of Grimsby Town," writes Rich. "I must apologise on behalf of the now shamed national news agency for its Pouton-like inaccuracy on the divisional status of GTFC. Perhaps all this name changing has confused the sports desk as well as almost everyone else in the UK."

It's certainly confused the BBC, it would seem - or perhaps, as Miles Moss suggests, there's more to it than that. "It was pleasing," he writes, "to hear Alan Green's disparaging comments regarding the renaming of the leagues on Five Live today ("What is HAPPENING to our gay-um?"); more so to discover that the webmasters of the excellent BBC site - despite pandering to Coca-Cola's dumb marketing ideas on the outside - are actually being dead subversive: all the URLs are still using Divisions One to Three: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/default.stm. See? People power, that's what it is. Before long, everyone will be calling them Divisions One to Three again, and Coca-Cola can shove their stupid ideas up their ringpulls."

In his email to the Diary, Gordon23W rather disrespectfully refers to me in the third person, as if he's talking about me to somebody else. Maybe there were people in the BCC field. Anyway, perhaps Gordy Boy was quite justified in so doing by some rather glaring omissions from my recent suggestions as to possible guests at the forthcoming Town/Charlton League Cup tie. "Diarist seems to have ovelooked the possible/likely invitation of former players Charlie Wright, Rod Green and, unforgiveably, Matt Tees," writes Gorgeous Gordon. "Tut!"

"Grimsby Town are real trendsetters," writes our old chum Lee Cobby. "A couple of months after we gave glam rockers Slade the job of running our team, I see Chester have followed suit, appointing as manager prog rock three-piece Rush. And apparently, John Ledzepplin and Dennis Creedanceclearwaterrevival are up for the Kidderminster job." Next!

Next is Miles Moss again, who brings today's perfunctory proceedings to a halt with an observation on yesterday's grim defeat at Wycombe. "I see that Wycombe's goalkeeper had a horse in goal with him, " writes Miles, referring to the excerpt below from Town's official website. "Surely this is cheating."

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