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Diary - Saturday 20 August 2005

20 August 2005

Eight out of ten Town fans who expressed a dispreference said Carl Boyeson was down the pub with his mates on Friday night, and one of them said: "I bet you 20 quid you daren't send off two Grimsby players again." But although he ignored at least three incidents that could well have justified penalties for the Mariners, no-one can realistically question the awarding of two spot-kicks to Darlington this afternoon nor the sendings-off of Tony Crane and Tom Newey.

As at Scunthorpe last season, the imperfections of the ref's performance are bound to distract GTFC supporters from the far greater imperfections of their team's performance. For large chunks of the second half Town allowed Darlington (who were nothing special, but as we now know, you don't need to be in this division) to pass the ball around them with ease and by way of response, despite another tremendous display from Paul Bolland, could mostly offer only hopeless and fruitless long balls towards Michael Reddy.

If you want to take a positive then at least it is Town's two least effective players yesterday who will receive suspensions. If you want to feel better then do what the Diary is about to do: get yourself down the pub and forget all about it.