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Diary - Saturday 10 September 2005

10 September 2005

Brontë Balti indeed.

Does this mean Russell Slade is better than Bill Shankly? The immovable object of Town's 50something-year-old record of consecutive away wins has met an unstoppable force: Gary Jones, to be precise, whose 47th-minute poke from a Martin Gritton cross proved enough to give the Mariners their sixth straight win on their travels at Peterborough this afternoon. Jones' third goal in six games - witnessed by around 800 loud Grimbarians - was just about the visitors' only shot on target in what the cynics will term "another fluky win" and the supporters Russ is finally winning over might prefer to call a classic smash-and-grab raid. Town move to second in the fourth division, level on 16 points with leaders Notts County with eight games played.