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Diary - Tuesday 19 September 2006
19 September 2006
As everyone in western Europe has been fully aware for some time now, Huddersfield Town Football Club are a bit strapped for fit and able central defenders at the moment. This is why, two weeks ago, the Terriers' manager Peter Jackson announced that Martin McIntosh would return to West Yorkshire when his loan with Grimsby came to an end on 17 September. It should come as a surprise to no-one, then, that Martin McIntosh returned to West Yorkshire when his loan with Grimsby came to an end on 17 September.
Mac2's departure leaves the Mariners with just two senior centre-halves on the books in Justin Whittle and Nick Fenton. Recent trialist Conor/Connor Rafferty has moved on to try his luck at Wycombe, reports today's Grimsby Telegraph, leaving 19-year-old Miles Chamberlain in line for a first-team debut should either become unavailable. The precedents are healthy this season, though, and if Chamberlain proves as promising as other recent youth team graduates then there should be little cause for worry - and news of the Mariners' exciting youngsters is reaching far and wide; well, as far and wide as Teamtalk, anyway. The notoriously inaccurate football news website of that name is running a tiny but touching little piece about Town's teenage sensations in which Peter Bore becomes a striker and Andy Taylor a defender. "Andy is always in my thoughts, while Peter has come in and set the world alight," swoons Grahams Rodgers, for a moment sounding more like Bridgets Joneses.
If you were planning to liven up your love life this evening with some hot reserve-on-reserve action, your hopes will fall limp with the news that the, er, stiffs' home defeat against King$ton Communication$ FC scheduled for this date is not gonna happen. Well, not tonight, Josephine. The match has been put back a day and will now kick off at 7pm on Wednesday, presumably to avoid clashing with a family fun day at Cleethorpes Boating Lake.
"I have just read today's Diary," begins an email from Ben Gresswell which was sent yesterday, so he means yesterday's Diary and isn't a clairvoyant, or if he is then he wasn't using his clairvoyant powers at that particular moment, "and felt saddened to read that Mr Diary doesn't have Sky. I suggest a collection be started so that the Diary can experience the wonders of this great arena of entertainment. Don't have Sky, eh? In this day and age? I suppose you will be telling us you don't have an iPod next? Boo hiss. Sort it Diary!" It's sad but it's true, Ben. Because of the damage done to my career by the necessity to bring you this daily montage of Mariners-related happenings and the ensuing loss of earnings, the Diary is not only unable to afford Sky but is also deprived of cars, holidays abroad and semi-detached housing, and instead of an iPod I have a little 256Mb mp3 player that holds four albums, or five if you compress them to a lower-quality bitrate. A further consequence of my penury is that I never get to see Soccer AM, so it's not all bad.