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Diary - Tuesday 20 November 2007

20 November 2007

Town's team news for tonight is fairly bleak if the BBC is to be believed - and when is the BBC not to be believed, apart from when it suggests that the Queen has had a barney with a photographer, or when it tampers with footage to imply that striking mineworkers at Orgreave charged the police when it was actually the other way round? According to Auntie's sport website, Martin Butler, Nick Fenton, Gary Jones, Paul Bolland, Isaiah Rankin and Danny Boshell are all out of this evening's FA Cup first round replay at home to Carlisle Five, but the club's superb new official website said yesterday that Fenton was still training and Jones "should be available", while Bolland would undergo a late fitness test. What, then, is the truth? And what is "truth"? It's whatever the Grimsby Telegraph tells you, apart from when it suggests that you can't leave your house without being mugged by 2,914 workshy asylum seekers who want to legalise gay adoption. For the time being, though, we can take the local paper at its word when it reports that, basically, Lord Alan Buckley won't know until an hour before kick-off who he's got available. "I really won't know until an hour before kick-off who I've got available," says Lord Alan Buckley.