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Diary - Friday 25 February 2005

25 February 2005

Leeds branch of Cod Almighty here to perform guest Diary duties today.

It seems that Positive John's meeting to plan next season (as revealed to Paul Thundercliffe) might have been a little too early: Tony Blair is promising to shift Town's budget goalposts for next season by declaring he will raise the minimum wage if he gets re-elected this year. Good news for any Town players next season: two games in seven days (or three hours of 'work') will reap them an extra 60 pence. Cor! More reason to remember the wise words of MJ Hibbett: pay day is the best day.

But less of the far future. What of tomorrow? Yeovil strut into town, fresh from beating Scunny 4-3. According to Russ Yeovil are confident, flying and full of energy: attributes you wouldn't associate with Town if you'd sat through the crap win over Chester on Tuesday. Macca and Jason Crowe are doubts for the game, although the Pope has passed a late fitness test this lunchtime.

Looking slightly further into local news? Ashley Sestanovich was driving very, very quickly and got caught, but he's not with us any more, who cares, etc etc. The Mariners Afloat campaign seems to have been ignored by the Grimmo Telegraph since its launch. North East Lincs council looking after Sure Start schemes by April 2008? Decentralising the control to the local council sounds a surefire case for negligence. And apparently the cost of Grimsby's Maxine Carr's anonymity is £50 million. See today's Grimmo Telegraph for plenty of OUTRAGED soundbites.

Ah well. At least the odds of Town beating Yeovil are 2/1 (or 3.00 if you prefer decimal odds; or +200 for our American cousins) on MarinersBet. Maybe a fiver on the win will bring a little joy to the Leeds office of Cod Almighty at 4:50 tomorrow.