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Diary - Tuesday 11 July 2006

11 July 2006

Grimsby 'til I die,
I'm Grimsby 'til I die,
I know I am,
I'm sure I am,
I'm Grimsby 'ti... BOOOOO RODGERS BOOOOOOO Y IZ U SININ PLAYAZ OFF SKUNFROP WE 8 SKUNFROP INIT!!! PETER BEADLES PLADE 4 SKUNFROP AN SCORD GOLZ 4 DEM AN WE 8 SKUNFROP INIT!!! AN HE WOZ ON TELE SAYIN VAT TOWN R CRAP!!! BOOOOO RODGERS MUPET IM NOT OFF 2 C TOWN NO MOR COZ TOWN R CRAP!!! MUMMY!!! BOOHOOHOO I WANT MY MUUUUUMMY!!!

If you are reading this in the North East Lincolnshire area and are wondering about that strange noise outside, then the news that Peter Beagrie has joined GTFC will make everything clear. It is the sound of teeth being gnashed and season ticket renewal forms being torn up. Beagrie, you see, has played for ten clubs in his long career, and one of them was Scunthorpe, and Scunthorpe is quite near Grimsby. Before his release at the end of last season the 40-year-old winger spent five years at Glanford Park, scoring a despicable 37 goals in getting on for 200 appearances. In a Mariners World interview, though, Beagrie not only neglects to wear a pantomime villain's fake moustache but comes across as articulate and likeable with a good understanding of the game, and insists that his recent past will not stand in the way of a successful spell at Blundell Park, where he has signed a one-year contract. "I see no reason why not," muses the player. "Every club that I've left, I've left on good terms - because as well as the stuff that you can do on the ball, the trickery, I don't shy out of a tackle... The fact that I've come from Scunthorpe won't make any difference whatsoever." But we don't want old men who were born in Middlesbrough playing for us, do we? Oh.

The news of Beagrie's arrival causes editorial discomfort in today's Grimsby Telegraph, which leads its sports section with the story but refers, in a piece about tonight's friendly at Lincoln United, to John McDermott as "the oldest member of the Town squad". Grahams Rodgerses explains that he intends every member of his squad to get 45 minutes' play this evening, including the four trialists taken on by the club yesterday. Poor Danny Boshell, true to Town's form, has simply disappeared.