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Diary - Tuesday 18 September 2007

18 September 2007

Town's superb new official website may not get everything right, but by gosh, those match reports are a whole lot better this season. They're spelt and punctuated properly. They read well. And, best of all, they don't credit assists to players who they said had got subbed off two paragraphs earlier. What a shame it is, then, that the excellent work of SNOS reporter Jonathan Byrne gets a bit lost among all those adverts for online gambling and Murdoch Premiership Townshafter TV, not to mention all that guff about the first team - so much so, in fact, that the Diary has only just spotted the details of GTFC women's recent 6-0 thrashing of Lincoln and the Myspace Mariners' 2-1 win against Bradford on Saturday. As the Bible story says, don't hide your light under Danny Boshell.

In a similar vein, it has taken until today for the Diary to chance upon Bolly's Blog - a hidden section of the increasingly unnavigable Grimsby Telegraph website where Town's all-action midfielder Paul Bolland ruminates upon pre-match meals, his teammates' hairstyles, and whether we can truly achieve knowledge of the external world given that with too low a standard for the justification of knowledge we admit follies and illusions into our body of knowledge but too high a standard keeps us from progressing beyond the existence of mental sensations, unable even to deduce the existence of a coherent or continuing 'I' that experiences these sensations, much less the existence of an external world. OK, you got me - I made up the bit about pre-match meals.

Watching your team? Half time score nil-nil in a home match against a side widely regarded as favourites for the fourth division title? Feel like booing? Well, don't. Or if you must, go and do it at Grimsby, and not Bradford.