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Diary - Wednesday 14 September 2005

14 September 2005

He suffers shin splints on the seashore. He suffers shin splints on the seashore. He shuffers spin slint... oh, arse. Hello, readers! Today you find the Diary, callous and disrespectful as ever, trying to make a tongue twister out of Andy Parkinson's injury misery. The former Tranmere and Sheffield United AM/F was subbed off at half time during Town's spectacular one-nil win at Peterborough last Saturday, shuffering from the aforementioned spin slints, and may miss out on this weekend's titanic clash with Torquay with the shame thing. "Parky may need to mish training and resht for a few daysh," Rushell Shlade has told the Grimshby Telegraph. OK, I'll stop now.

A couple of emails have been flung Diarywards regarding Town's super new T-shirts, which have been produced, remember, "especially for the Sky cameras" that will be in attendance at next Tuesday's League Cup tie against the mighty Tottenham. "Sounds a little like the football equivalent of Songs of Praise," writes Andrew Lumbard, "where the church was always full, and everyone dressed up in the vain hope that they would be picked out by the telly." Rich Mills is even more sceptical: "T-shirts to commemorate the 2nd round of the Rumbelows/Milk/Coca-Cola/Carling/who's next? Cup that they haven't even played yet?" he thunders, overlooking Littlewoods in all the excitement. "Isn't that jumping the gun a little? Have they booked Riby Square for a victory parade on open-topped buses?" If they have, Rich, then it's a shame Tony Gallimore isn't around; in one important aspect he could have emulated the performance of Andrew Flintoff.