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Diary - Wednesday 12 January 2005

12 January 2005

The Futureheads - purveyors of brilliantly structured, short, sharp guitar pop songs or a bunch of third-rate Jam revivalists? Withnail and I - effortlessly superior, superbly scripted dark British comedy or a painfully unfunny dirge of a film pretended to be enjoyed by dope-addled male freshmen? Johnny Vaughan - annoying twat or really annoying twat? All of the above, in the Diary's experience, tend to polarise opinions toward one extreme or the other - as, for that matter, does Jason Crowe, Town's jack of all trades who has most recently made himself invaluable to Russell Slade in central midfield but now faces a spell on the sidelines after picking up some injury or other at the end of last night's home defeat by Northampton. I can't remember what it was and I can't find anything about it online cos I'm in a hurry, but they were on about it on Radio Humberside after the game and it sounded like he'd be out for a few weeks, which is either very bad or very good news depending on which extreme your opinion is polarised towards.

In other news today, Tony 'Arse The Size Of Lancashire' Crane appears in the line-up for a reserve match at Huddersfield this afternoon; BBC Humber can't spell Northampton; and Russ is probably very disappointed with Town's second-half display last night. Me, I thought the referee was awful, yes, and the weather was a bit nasty, but we still deserved to lose. Less a case of tactics - the Mariners were the better side in the first half - more that you don't know what you've got until you lose Terry Fleming with the flu, and, well, the Cobblers looked half decent for once. The one thing guaranteed to take Town into a 53rd successive relegation struggle at this point would be a change of management, so pack it in with all that sort of talk, make yourself a nice cup of tea, and go and watch Ready Steady Cook. It will all be better in the morning.