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Diary - Saturday 7 August 2004

7 August 2004

The bookmakers' favourites to end the 2004-05 season as the highest-placed Lincolnshire side of the four in the bottom division are already three points adrift of all their county rivals as Darlington substitute Ian Clark registers the only goal of the game at the Debbie Reynolds Arena on 83 minutes. An unsurprisingly Gazza-less Boston come out 1-0 to the good at home to Oxford; Lincoln spoil Shrewsbury's return to the League with a similar victory at Gay Meadow; and everyone's relegation favourites Scunthorpe Town come back from behind at Glanford to despatch everyone's relegation second-favourites Rochdale by three goals to one. An inevitable learning experience for the Mariners as Noddy's new squad learn each other's names, or the harbinger of another entirely false dawn? Time, Town and Tony's match report will tell.