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Diary - Wednesday 11 January 2006

11 January 2006

Oooh, it's Wednesday. Hull must have signed a striker. Let's have a look. Yeah, they have.

Chelsea finishing top of the Premiership league table. Havelock finishing bottom of Grimsby's secondary school league table. Misspelt, wrongly punctuated and badly phrased articles on commercially franchised football websites. Some things in life are always certain - just like Town reserves getting a severe mauling last night against Sheffield United's reserve B-team; and sure enough, the Mariners' seconds were thumped by the Blades' thirds to the tune of four goals to nil. As Town's official website almost points out in mitigation, we don't really have a proper reserve team any more, and this was just the senior members of the youth team (Danny North, Paul Ashton) supplemented by the weird tax-dodge/identity-theft/favour-to-Slade's-uncle-Dave signings who will never make the first team (Tommy Taylor, Glen Downe... oh). But as the OS admits, Sheff U's was also a young team - it consisted entirely of 15- to 18-year-olds, in fact - and most of the sides in the Hi-De-Hi Division One East Reserves League are probably of similar callowness. For the final goal last night, Town keeper Rob Murray punched the ball into his own net, John Lukic presumably having been loaned to Nuneaton Borough or released on a free transfer to North Ferriby United without anybody telling us.

What an exciting weekend of action in the third round of the FA Cup, eh. Without Town. Again. Still, this doesn't mean Marinerian types have been entirely without a recent interest in the World's Greatest Knockout Competition Sponsored by Booze, Fizzy Drinks and Fast Food, as Michael Shelton has emailed the Diary to observe on one particular result from the games just played. "3rd round, 1-0, Shearer, 80 mins. Sound familiar? I'm sure all Town fans will join me in sending sympathies to Mansfield, and hoping they get a win at the weekend to cheer them back up a bit. Oh wait, hang on a minute..."