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Diary - Friday 17 November 2006
17 November 2006
Hi guys. Durham Diary here delivering a selection of today's hottest toppings to the pizza base that is your Friday afternoon. So get those takeaway menus out, dial the incoherent pikey who will do her best to invent a totally new order for you, and sit back and wait till I arrive without the right change to make your order up to a tenner.
Down to the serious stuff. And serious indeed it is. Many have mocked Boston manager Steve Evans on this website for, well, for being a twat really, in recent weeks, but perhaps they should have looked closer to home for a manager with a shady personality. This after it was revealed on the OS today that Alan Buckley has a preference for pre-pubescent males. "Alan Buckley gives us the low-down on the Choirboys" is the thoroughly disturbing tagline promoting an interview on Mariners World. The only other possible explanation is that the OS is rubbish, and can't tell the difference between the Chairboys, who Grimsby play tomorrow, and the Choirboys, who they don't. You decide. I prefer the latter, but only because Buckers used to live next door to us and we regularly went round to ask for our ball back. In shorts.
Today's special offer: read the first two paragraphs and get the third free, for collection only. Writing today's third paragraph myself seems an absolute travesty. Your regular Diary (with extra pepperoni) slogs his guts out here four or five days a week and lets someone else have a go on Friday. Then on Thursday afternoon the OS publish an absolutely dire attempt to justify the creation of a new stadium at Great Coates and the poor man can't rip it to shreds because some student type is writing the Diary today. The injustice of it all! Anyway, he'd do a much better job than me, and he really does live for things like this, so I'm going to reserve comment and leave his thunder unstolen so he can do his worst on Monday. Don't miss it guys.
Tonight Durham Diary and housemates are embarking on a college bar crawl round Durham. The target is to get drunk, the method being to drink an alcoholic beverage beginning with the first letter of the college name. Then at about midnight we will hit the union for Planet of Sound until 2am. At 2am we will then join the queue for Winter Solstice tickets back up at college, and will try not to be thrown out until 4am, at which time our replacements will arrive. Why am I telling you this? Well, one because it's quite funny, and two because Town's ticket office will be open 9am-3pm tomorrow for season ticket holders wanting Northampton tickets. So expect to see several drunken season ticket holders arriving with sleeping bags at 2am to make sure they're in the queue. I don't think.
Team news for tomorrow: Gary Jones back from suspension, Bore and Ravenhill back in training for the Mariners. Tommy Doherty, Russell Martin and Anthony Grant are all back from suspension for Wycombe, and Tommy Mooney isn't dead yet. It doesn't matter: Buckley is back. If the kids are united they will never be divided.
Oh, and just as I was signing in to email this off, in pops an email from the aforementioned regular Diary telling me Bury have released Marc Goodfellow. I'd take him back; anyone else? He could be the new Kevin Donovan!
And that's it from me. Hope you all have a good weekend, I'm off to line my stomach with lots and lots of fatty food. Such as pizza. Enjoy!