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Diary - Thursday 2 June 2005

2 June 2005

No news is good news, they say; then again, whoever said that has probably never tried writing the Diary on a wet Thursday afternoon in the close season with Town's chances of signing an interesting new player in the immediate future looking roughly on a par with the likelihood of the new Wembley stadium being completed on time and to budget. This being, sadly, very much the case, the Diary has been forced to plumb the very depths of GTFC gossip today, turning up only the unedifying finding that the club's long-serving midfielder Stacy Coldicott nearly quit football last summer to become a fireman. Leaving aside for a moment the possibility of an imminent ballot among the Mariners squad for industrial action over pay - let alone a mass exodus as the team seeks better money manning the amusements down Meggies over the summer - let's fill the space with your speculations as to what jobs Town's players would do if they weren't Town's players. Email diary@codalmighty.com with a little careers advice for the men in black and white.

The Diary isn't the only one feeling the news pinch today, as our local organ the Grimsby Telegraph is forced to report something about some Scunthorpe player just to occupy a column or two below today's lead football item, which is that non-story from yesterday about Anthony Williams might sign a new contract but probably won't, and Relaxed Russ doesn't know or care much either way. The tumbleweed seems to be a-driftin' around the whole of Grimsby and Cleethorpes, though, and not just Blundell Park, since the second news story on the front page of the Telegraph website is headlined Getting to the root of good hair colour.

On which note, both tonsorial and anticlimactic, I shall bid you farewell for the week and express my fond hope that tomorrow's guest diarist, whoever it is, gets a bit more material. Oh, and if you have any non-drug-related suggestions for remedying insomnia, then email those to us as well, will ya? Actually, I could just try reading today's Diary, couldn't I. Anyway. Bye.