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Diary - Thursday 2 December 2004

2 December 2004

Hello readers, and elcome to Thursday's diary, ritten by me, Miles Moss. Yes, I kno there are to letters missing there - ooh, and another one just no... ooh, there's one more. There's a good reason for this - ant to kno hat it is? Ell, I spent my lunch hour at ork on Tuesday hizzing off thirty of those onderful ne 'Ivano' t-shirts to some ise and discerning Cod Almighty readers. I thought that a compliment slip ould be in order, so I quickly hipped one up using Microsoft Ord for Indos. Yesterday, our very on Pete Green mailed to say ho good the shirt as, but ho rubbish I as for not being able to type the ebsite's URL properly, to it: 'orld ide' instead of 'orld ide eb'. hoops. hat a silly anker I am.

Right, that's enough of that. I just can't keep it up any longer. Stop sniggering at the back. Anyway, for those of you who ordered one of these smashing shirts, I hope your enjoyment hasn't been impaired by my dodgy stationery. But hey, hang on to them - they're collector's items, like those copies of albums that were accidentally pressed on only one side, or those copies of 'Total Cult' magazine that went on sale with a big spelling error on the cover.

Once you've had a bit of the old Grimsby magic, there's no going back, it seems. Having sold prolific scorer (for other teams, anyway) Daryl Clare, Chester City are now emptying the piggy bank and looking down the back of the sofa in order to buy another bit-disappointing-for-us-and-good-for-others striker: Phil Jevons. Chester have a shortage of front men which won't be resolved until the injury to Branch is better, the loan of Stamp is over, and the suspension of Belle ends. Ooh. Has that made anyone else's eyes water?

There was an article in the Telegraph yesterday about finances and administration and stuff, which just smacks of petty politics rather than facts, and bored me rigid within seconds. Read it yourself if you like, but quite frankly I found the most interesting bit to be "Continued on Page 51".

My eyes fair popped out of my head cartoon-style when I read that Grimsby's under-17 team had won a friendly 40-0, but then I realised it was about bloody rugby. It's one of them slow news days, I guess, which is why the Telegraph are running a 49-word story on how Notts County have loaned a goalie from Aston Villa; and why I'm bothering telling you about it.

By the way, incidentally, and apropos of nothing, did anyone see the BBC website's videprinter page last night? German side Schalke 04 only scored one goal, but were credited with having scored four because of some confusion with their name. They were 4-0 up, 4-1 up, and then 4-2 up, but still lost 2-1, apparently. Well, it amused me, anyhow.

And finally: it's never nice when a promising young footballer suffers a horrific injury, and so it is with great sadness that I bring you news that Sheffield Wednesday's Adam Proudlock has broken his leg in training. No, really, it's horrible. I know he refused to come on loan to Grimsby cos we weren't good enough for him and we smelled of lobsters, but it must have really hurt him, so please stop laughing. Oh come on now, stop it.