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Diary - Tuesday 1 February 2005

1 February 2005

Russell Slade has denied that he wants to sign Andy Impey, and nobody believed it in the first place. The Grimsby Telegraph, at the time of writing, hasn't updated its local sport index since yesterday, and even then they were forced to run stories about rugby and horses and John Oster. Such is the dearth of news emanating from Fortress Blundell today that even Town's own official website has resorted to running a very short item indeed about the second string playing Notts County tomorrow, when they usually leave it until the morning of a reserves match before mentioning it.

A good thing, then, that Felix Oliver-Tasker has emailed to give us all something to read. Unfortunately, the subject of his email is having nothing to read. "I know Town won but how did they do it?" begs FOT. "I'm desperate for a report. I hate the official site and the Telegraph is awful. Please get a desperate fan stuck in darkest Reading, far away from Willy's and Ernie Beckett's fabulous fish shop, a match report." Could you not get there from Reading, then, Felix? Or could you not have asked Daddy to put down his caviar and send one of his servants along? Guest Diary asked for a report last Friday, I believe, but nobody yet seems to have chanced placing their arm into the mighty mitten of Tony Butcher. Final call, then: if anyone out there made it along to Cheltenham and has at least a vague recollection of the events that catapulted the Mariners into the top ten for 20 hours or so, then speak up, prithee.