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Diary - Monday 23 April 2007
23 April 2007
Ticket news! The Diary must apologise for having given the impression last week that places would be scarce at Shrewsbury a week on Saturday for Town's season-closer - and, of course, Sir John McDermott's career-closer. Nothing could be further from the truth, because when GTFC finally got round to making an announcement this morning (nearly two hours after the tickets actually went on sale), the club revealed that an astonishing "400 hundred" tickets were available. It is stressed that these are initially offered to season ticket holders only, on a one-for-one basis, but even if every one of Town's 2,000 or so season ticket holders were to buy one, this would leave a more than sufficient 39,800 tickets when they go on general sale. We're not sure when they do go on general sale, because the club's official website either still doesn't know or can't be bothered to tell us, but the club has clearly gone the extra mile and then some for fans wishing to bid farewell to Macca! Hats off to GTFC for looking after the interests of their own supporters!
Alan Buckley's form in his Mariners World interviews is as entertaining as that of his team in tonking Barnet the other day, and the press conference he gave after that game was no exception. Also worth a look this languid Monday lunchtime is a Grimsby Telegraph interview with the weekend's three-goal bare-headed hero Danny North, who declares that his close shave up top came in direct response to his erstwhile barren spell in front of goal. "I'd not scored in seven games, so I thought I'd get it shaved, and it's worked," grins young Dan, who also reveals the identity of his exclusive high-class hairstylist as "my mam". Danny's mam's hairdressing skills are also believed to have been sought out already by a despairing Luton's Michael Reddy, who still hasn't returned to form since having his hip shaved in Coventry last week.
If you're a Diary reader who likes getting tarted up to the nines and prefers to avoid mingling with the riff-raff while taking in a little association football, why not take a punt at CA's latest competition? Answer five questions correctly and you could win a pair of executive tickets for this Saturday's final home game of the season against Lincoln, depriving you of the basic human right to dress as you wish but entitling you to a pre-match meal at McMenemy's and then two seats in the directors' lounge. This would normally cost about £180, apparently, and the competition is free to enter, so get cracking now, quick, cos you've only got until tomorrow night!
On the subject of finding a new right-back, with which we toyed briefly last week, Mat Hare has emailed the Diary to ask simply: "How can anyone replace John McDermott? Surely the only decent thing the club could do is retire the number 2 shirt. That and divert all Fentydome funds into a statue of his McDermottness." Email further suggestions to diary@codalmighty.com... meanwhile Mark Wilson was befuddled by the recent scout camp/junk food festival at Blundell Park and asks: "Were all those scouts fined for 'entering the playing area' like I'm threatened with every time I visit BP?" Yep - just like the 200 nylon-clad 13-year-olds who will run onto the pitch at (or just before) the end of the Lincoln game will be too...