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Diary - Thursday 24 February 2005

24 February 2005

You don't get owt for nowt in this life, as Cynical Granny Diary used to say as she forced me at the point of a rolling pin to wash up after eight relatives in exchange for 10p to spend on Refreshers at the corner shop. How right she was, for it seems that watching Ronnie Bull for the rest of the season is the price Grimsby Town fans will have to pay for Russell Slade's latest addition to the squad, whoever that may turn out to be. As reported yesterday, Greg Young - the only left-sided defender on the books who isn't Ronnie Bull - is off to Halifax, and in confirming the news today Town's official site chooses wording that suggests his departure is a precondition to Sort It bringing in a new midfielder. Yeovil left-footer Adrian Caceres was rumoured the other day to be the man in the frame, but, y'know, he probably isn't.

Don't open this link if you're at work or your mum is looking over your shoulder or anything. Or, indeed, if you're having your dinner, for it will show you a not especially attractive young person who, for reasons best known to herself, is walking around Grimsby in the nud. But whereabouts in Grimsby? This is the concern - nay, obsession - of Diary reader Matt, who sent the link (perhaps wisely omitting his surname) with the question: "Can you identify the actual location? Is this (the more than appropriate) Riby Square?" Readers with looser morals and/or stronger constitutions are invited to email their speculations to diary@codalmighty.com. Well, as entertainment goes, it's slightly less ugly than watching Anthony Williams walloping a bag of wind 40 foot up in the air for an hour and a half. And believe me, I know.

I think it's Thursday but I'm not entirely sure. If it is then I'll bid you cheerio for the week. Cheerio.