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Diary - Tuesday 23 November 2004

23 November 2004

"Windows Media Player Error. The system cannot find the file specified." Town fans hoping to see Tony Crane back in action soon will have to keep their fingers crossed that the big-ass central defender's recovery from long-term injury is proving more straightforward than listening to the interview with the club's official website in which he describes it. Crane limped out of the Mariners' pre-season friendly at Scunthorpe, I think it was, with something called an articular cartilage problem, which it was feared/hoped (delete as applicable) could sideline him for an entire season, but the huge-rumped former Sheffield Wednesday man could be back in training right now for all I know, given that I can't listen to this sodding interview. Hang on, then, let's try doing it another way... right click, save as, open file... "Windows Media Player Error. No error description could be found for this error." No, that's no use - now it seems to be talking about Terrell Forbes' performance at Chester last month.

Greg Young is better than Crane and Rob Jones anyway, isn't he?

A rather sad recent story that has gone almost unnoticed is that the coaches to away games run by Town's ancient official supporters' club may not be long for this world. The venerable Bernard Morley, organiser of said transport, has told the Grimsby Telegraph that only 28 fans took the coach to the recent FA Cup match at Exeter and fewer still are expected to travel thusly to this Friday's fixture at Southend. "We don't want to take the option away but it may be a case of 'use it or lose it'," explains Berniebaby, clearly drawing little solace from the knowledge that even the underwater silicon-based ink-breathing lifeforms of the Tau Ceti system knew the Mariners would lose at Exeter and that away games and Friday nights go together like Matchbox Maya and Dev Alahan's chain of flammable convenience stores.

Occasional Cod Almighty letters editor Mark Stilton followed the link from yesterday's Diary to read about the demise of the video recorder, where he read that "The early 1980s saw a battle between VHS and its main competitor Betamax, from Sony. VHS eventually won, largely because it was the format favoured by rental shops which many households used due to their cost." He's not having it though. "Pah," exclaims Mark in an email to the Diary. "The truth is: VHS won over Betamax because it was the format adopted by the porn industry. It's the same reason that DVD has taken off so quickly - the porn industry adopted it at an early stage because of its 'multi-angle' capabilities. Porn is also the reason internet/broadband has done so well. Hooray for porn. Hope this makes it through your spam filter." I'd be more worried about your eyesight, Mark; then again, given the way Town have been playing lately, maybe you're better off blind.