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Diary - Tuesday 13 September 2005

13 September 2005

Clearly reeling from the success of Cod Almighty's 100 per cent unofficial and probably illegal GTFC T-shirts, the club has this week put on sale a Town v Tottenham T-shirt of its own ahead of next week's League Cup tie. The official website explains that the shirts, priced at an accessible £7.99, have been produced "especially for the Sky cameras", and "are a limited edition". Not limited enough to stop them giving away five in a very easy competition that costs 25p to enter (is the Spurs manager: [a] Martin Jol; [b] Frank Zappa; [c] the Sydney Opera House), but then tickets for next Tuesday's big game were supposed to be at a premium as well, and they still managed to find enough for Radio Humberside to bribe you with some to call its post-match phone-in the other week, and even then had plenty kicking about to throw in a couple for the winner of last week's auction for some mouldy old boots.

Speaking of GTFC auctions, the club is offering another one of those 'travel with the players on the team coach but only if you dress up smart like that Hitler chap' packages. There seems to be a little confusion over which match the offer applies to, however, since the sales blurb begins by referring to a game against "local rivals" but then says something about Boston United. Most peculiar.

In the Diary's Mariners World digest today: Grahams Rodgerses says Peterborough are good and so it was good that Town beat them. We'll try really hard to beat Torquay as well, because that would be good as well. They still need a new microphone.