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Diary - Monday 23 May 2005

23 May 2005

Life can often be seen as comprising simply a series of questions, and today the Diary is asking all the big ones. Why am I here? What is my place in the universe? And if Gary Cohen was so amazing at Scarborough then why did Russell Slade sell him to Gretna in the first place? But remembering, of course, that the Lord Futcher was but a humble Halifax reserve just before he graced Blundell Park with His heavenly radiance, let us put our cynicism aside and see what's happening today. Slade prepares for a busy seven days is the headline of today's lead story in the Grimsby Telegraph, which sounds promising, but amounts, sadly, to little more than Russ saying he has to sort out new contracts for the players he wants to keep and maybe think about signing some new ones as well at some point. No mention is being made anywhere at all, so far as the Diary is aware, of the two who we were led to believe six days ago were "close to agreeing deals" with Town, regardless of whether one of them was the player who did well in that trial match played, ooh, ages ago now, and who we had to sign like really quickly before he went somewhere else. Hmmm.

Terry Fleming is probably about to do one, but you read that six times over the weekend. Oh look - Hull have signed a striker. Fancy that.

Another of life's big questions is, of course, "what happened to Terry Cooke?" And the internet may be 97.5 per cent complete and utter crap, but it's come up with the goods this time. OK, so strictly speaking, the Diary reported on Monday 18 April that he'd signed for Colorado Rapids, but what we hadn't seen at the time was his profile on the club's website. You may know already that the highlights of Cooke's career have included his season with the Mariners and his receiving a young player of the year award "from the hands of Sir Alex Ferguson himself", but you may not previously have been aware that "Terry's work ethic is immense". Well, you are now.