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Diary - Thursday 18 October 2007

18 October 2007

Not even four years ago Cod Almighty ran a daft spoof pretending that top pop act Atomic Kitten had agreed to perform live at Blundell Park, and the only people naive enough to believe us were the 20 or 30 credulous youngsters who emailed us pleading for more information. Today the Grimsby Telegraph is running a presumably genuine item about top pop act the Sugababes having agreed to perform live at Grimsby Auditorium, and at the time of writing only one reader has used the comments facility on the Telegraph website to cheerfully slag off the town. Who says Grimsby's going nowhere, eh?

Well, it's not like there's any football news to report; much as we would mock the tendency of Town's recent managers to organise 19-a-side kickabouts to accommodate the vast hordes of obscure trialists they ushered into Blundell Park, at least it gave the Diary something to write about. Before I hand over to Guest Diary tomorrow, the only outstanding items of any relevance to GTFC are Neil Woods' plaintive lament at the Myspace Mariners' awful recent thrashing by their counterparts from King$ton Communication$ FC, and the internet auction for Martin Butler's signed shirt moving past the psychologically significant £39.99 barrier - the price of a standard unsigned adult shirt in the club shop - at a quarter to ten last night. Right now it's only gone past it by 1p, so perhaps supporters' expectations of the new striker are not as unreasonably inflated as we might previously have feared. See you on Monday!