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Diary - Thursday 21 December 2006

21 December 2006

The festive fixture list's looming fast - and try saying that on Christmas Day after nine bottles of Bailey's. In the meantime, the scheduling of two of Town's next five games has been thrown into doubt by a once-in-a-generation combination of high atmospheric pressure and administrative bungling at Gigg Lane. The freezing cold and the fog that has stranded thousands of carbon-careless domestic flyers at London's posh Heathrow airport could yet have a bearing on the Mariners' itinerary, with a temperature of zero degrees and poor visibility forecast around Blundell Park for tomorrow night's visit of Torquay. Meanwhile, Bury, who were deducted a point last season for fielding a loan player after his loan had expired, have been chucked out of this season's FA Cup for a similar misdemeanour in their recent second-round win over Chester. The Deviants will replace them in next month's third round, which - unless Bury succeed in their appeal against the decision - makes them unavailable for league duty on 6 January, and according to my fixture list, that's the very date the Football League's enormous fixture computer pegged them in for a visit to sunny Cleethorpes. At this rate Gary Jones could be banned until Easter without even needing to swing his elbow again.

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