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Diary - Monday 26 February 2007

26 February 2007

We can go on about Saturday's referee until we're purple in the face, but instead let us turn to the Grimsby Telegraph, where Lord Alan Buckley agrees with the verdict of Cod Almighty's guest match reporter Mike Worden that Town's players might just have been significantly at fault, in their first-half performance, for the weekend's defeat at Macclesfield. Describing his team's start as "shocking", the ever-diplomatic GTFC manager explains gently: " We didn't close people down, we didn't work hard. I looked at the three lads in midfield and they were dawdling about like tomorrow would have done." Elsewhere on the same page, in a brilliant Chris Morris-style parody demonstrating the worthlessness of web polls, the Telegraph's current vote asks visitors to answer yes or no to the simple question: "What do you think?", giving not the faintest indication as to what it is that we are supposed to be thinking about. Today the Diary thinks no, but tomorrow I may very well think bike.

It's just as well the local paper is making mistakes for us to laugh at, as just for once the Diary has been unable to find any at all on Town's official website. Granted, this is largely because Town's official website has been down for most of the past two days, but it still represents something of an upturn in form for the beleaguered OS. At the same time, the Diary has been too terrified to read what appeared on this page on Friday, given the propensity of CA's Leeds office to commit actual bodily harm upon the English language, so let's go back to the BBC. Richard Lord has been in touch to bring our attention to "another mistake by the BBC Sport website - we have a player called Tiaran Toner!" And Chris Parrott, finally, emailed about a hitherto untrumpeted mistake made by Auntie last week (see Thursday's Diary): "Is this a sign of how far we've fallen in recent years? Did no one at CA Towers bat an eyelid that the BBC web-thingy that announced our imaginary game v Chester on Wednesday was billed as 'non-League'?" We took it as an ironic comment on Chester's style of football, Chris.