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Diary - Thursday 7 October 2004

7 October 2004

As the least eventful week in the history of Grimsby Town Football Club inches torturously towards its blank anticlimax, the Diary is delighted to be able to report that Graham 'Let Me Play' Hockless and Ashley 'No, I'll Score This Time, Really' Sestanovich are ill. I hope they'll understand. Big Stan has one of those mystery viruses that only infect footballers, while Little Grez has come down with the flu, poor cherub. Both players are doubtful for tomorrow night's visit to Northampton, adds Town's official website, like there was any chance of Hockless playing anyway after the self-esteemed young winger blew his chance at Carlisle the other week; and because the Diary's forehead has almost recovered from being banged repeatedly by its owner against the back of the stand last Friday I will merely remark that it will be interesting to see how a Sestanovich-free line-up will fare at Sixfields.

I suppose, with shadows cast over the livelihoods of 600 Grimbarians and their families, it would be indecent of me to wonder about the condition of Thomas Pinault's groin. I can't help it, though, you know.

Let us return, hopefully for the last time, to the issue of Cod Almighty's randomly chosen taglines which pop up at the top of each page on the site. Diary readers without much of any worth going on in their lives may recall Tony Butcher's objection to the one that says "I mean I do like doing the washing up, but it's never given me wood", which I agree is crap, and I don't know who put it there. Rich Mills has cheekily suggested replacing it with a link to his band's website, and Tony himself has emailed the Diary with a list comprising dozens of cryptic incantations such as "anything but shampoo". But the winner is Sue Firth, who has borrowed a line from Up The Mariners: "In the Pontoon stand we're the greatest in the land". Thank you and congratulations, Sue; your tagline is now in use, and the old one is gone forever, or at least until one of the CA team puts it back again just to annoy Tony some more.

That's it from me for this week, then. If you can now consider what to do about a solicitor who has mislaid £135,000 of your money then the Diary would be delighted to hear from you.