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Diary - Thursday 2 August 2007

2 August 2007

What have we got today, then, boys and girls? We've got a Mariners World interview with Peter Till, and this time the incongruous musical backing track sounds like a sort of 80s pop-reggae groove, but it's very low in the background so it's quite hard to tell. The former Birmingham winger - who emerged as man of the match in Tuesday's friendly at Grantham - tells the watching world how he's enjoyed a good pre-season so far and, asked about this Saturday's visit from high-flying Scunthorpe and the return of Martin Paterson, refers wryly to "a certain little skinhead that'll be getting some stick from the fans". All in all Till comes across as quite an intelligent lad, as long as you're not prejudiced against mild Black Country accents, and if you are then you'd have it in for Stuart Watkiss as well, and that'd make you a damn crazy fool. Oh yeah alright.

This week's final item of business, before we hand over to a substitute diarist for tomorrow, is an email from Rob Smith (must... resist... joke about The Cure), who has been reading the SNOS match report from Grantham. "Looking at the superb new official site (which seems slower every time you see it, much in the style of Gary Jones), I note that 'Tom Newey slid a ball through... for Tom Newey' to set up one of Town's three goals," observes Rob. "Tom improved greatly under Buckley at the end of last season and clearly now that he has perfected the art of picking out passes to himself, there will be no stopping the Mariners' charge for the league title. I am of course assuming that the superb new official site has not forgotten to inform us of the signing of a second (goalscoring superstar version) Tom Newey. Just imagine it, a team full of Tom Neweys... at least that would explain why Tom Newey insists on taking all the set pieces during the game." Hey, it's almost like Tom Newey is Three Imaginary Boys! That's the name of the first Cure album, you see. God I hate myself.