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Diary - Monday 9 October 2006

9 October 2006

Tony Thorpe is good. Ricky Ravenhill didn't get booked! Andy Taylor wasn't on the bench. And that was the smallest 4,147 crowd the Diary has ever seen.

We almost missed it in all the excitement of winning a match, but the arrival of Andy Butler on loan late last week freed up youthie centre-half Miles Chamberlain to return to Eastwood Town. After successful loan periods there last season, Chambers is well thought of by the Northern Premier League side and has gone back for more, teaming up with his fellow GTFC young 'un Ben Higgins, whose loan at the same club has recently been extended for another month. Both players appeared in the club's weekend game away at Woodley Sports, and presumably did OK as Eastwood emerged with a clean sheet (albeit in a goalless draw), and currently lead the NPL first division on goal difference from Nicky Law's Buxton. C'mon you Badgers!

"I think I can definitively answer this one," boasts Chris Parrott on the pie/pastie issue (or indeed the pie/pastie/pasty issue, if the Wikipedia spelling issue is to be admitted to the debate). "My ex-mother-in-law makes pasties and she also makes a thing called 'pasty pies'. All the usual good stuff that goes into a pastie but in the shape of a pie, and not the total wrap-around pastry solution beloved of tin miners. Now why would she bother saying it was a pie if a pasty was a pie anyway? Ergo a pasty is not a pie. And she ought to know: she's Cornish. Wikipedia schmikipaedia." Just off on a tangent here, but did anyone else's mum used to deep-fry little jam sandwiches in batter, or was it just the Diary's? We couldn't afford doughnuts in our house...