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Diary - Tuesday 22 February 2005

22 February 2005

"It is a fine day in Cleethorpes with no lying snow at the moment," reported the front page of Town's official website this morning, next to a picture of Blundell Park covered in lying snow. Perhaps the snow was lying to the OS and told them it was actually cocaine, or bits of polystyrene; either way, it looks from this and the BBC Humber weather map like Town's home fixture against Chester this evening may go ahead despite white wintry precipitation affecting much of the rest of the UK.

Whether this is a good thing depends largely upon the two sides' injury lists, though also partly upon which side of bed the referee got out of, whether you actually like football, and quite possibly the price of fish as well. Jason Crowe, says the official site, is "struggling with score thighs", while the participation of John McDermott, Ronnie Bull, Graham Hockless and Justin Whittle is also uncertain. Ian Rush's fantastically brutal Chester side are also carrying a few knocks, and presumably looking to inflict one or two as well. "Grimsby can be a phsyical [sic.] side, so we will have to match them in that department," Rush has told his local paper the Daily Post, placing him in pole position for the 2005 Cheshire and North Wales Brass Neck Championship.

In summary, then, the Diary has a very strong suspicion that in around eight hours from now I will be wishing to high Heaven that I could be magically transported in an instant back to my lovely comfy sofa in my lovely warm house with Mrs Diary snuggling agreeably at my side, though not so energetically as to disturb the ample mug of steaming tea that she has just mashed and milked to perfection before placing in my hand. Oh God. Does anyone want a ticket?