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Diary - Friday 13 April 2007

13 April 2007

Now gentle reader, is it Town team news you want, or a tip for a horse race? Or maybe, just maybe, it's a clearer understanding of why each type of biscuit tends to be characterised by a certain shape and size. Think about it - bourbon; shortcake; digestive; gari-flaming-baldi... your Guest Diarist, you see, whiled away the nether regions of yesterday afternoon listening to one of those quaint and gloriously English radio programmes that explored the latter topic. But then got an anonymous email containing a clip from another recent BBC radio show. Yes, here it is - the punk version of 'Sing When We're Fishing' in all its pomp (and with no little circumstance). Artist unknown, but one for the archives and iPods, maybe? Back on the biscuit front, it's apparently got a lot to do with a bloke who invented a gadget to press the biscuits out. Although that sort of wheel effect that shorties have is summat to do with an ancient Scottish pagan festival involving the sun. More on this story later, and thanks Si and Pete for the mp3 file.

Lord Buckley was his usual forthright and pragmatic self during his weekly interview on Mariners World, pointing out that a four-point Easter haul from two play-off contenders was slightly disappointing. This, he said, shows how far the team have come on in the last six months. In the now weekly section about the shape of the squad for next season, AB was prosaic, saying that some out-of-contract players would be let go and that some were not really interested in staying. No names, no pack drill yet, of course.

Responding to the very valid point that it would be a bit weird not to have Sir John of McDermott's ever-lengthening moniker scrawled across the back four on the teamsheet next season, Lord Buckley agreed, and then commented that the old warhorse was looking very tired these last few matches. The interviewer completely forgot to ask for team or injury news for Saturday's away match at Accrington, and this amnesia also stretched to how Accrington play (which was amply demonstrated in the home fixture, as I recall). But perhaps I am too harsh, because I am sure that if I met the queen I would probably just mumble something suitably pointless about her dogs or her holidays or something - whereas you always think you're gonna say something acidly witty and really meaningful like "up the Tooting Popular Front!" or "come the revolution, missus, come the revolution..."

Si Wilson has just emailed me another little nugget: a match report of an East Riding cup semi-final between Bridlington Town and Sculcoates Amateurs. In it is nostalgic news of a GTFC defender: "Town had the edge in pace and skill, but all too often their efforts foundered on the rock that was Amateurs' centre-half Mark Lever, a veteran of over 500 league games with Grimsby Town, and perhaps the best defender Town have come up against this season. At 38 he is clearly winding down a long and successful career, but could still clearly play at least Unibond football, or possibly higher." Sign him up Bucko - I miss my 'Lever moments'.

Having not given you the team news, I am certainly not going to tell you owt about 'Positive' John Fenty's Fentydome-based promise of a statement on the official site. He can dream on; my dreams for the future are a lot different. Just giving it a name doesn't make it real, you know. Ooh err, time for a consoling biscuit, I think. Have a nice weekend - see yer.