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Diary - Thursday 20 December 2007

20 December 2007

Despite bossing a decent proportion of their game last night, reports Town's superb new official website, the Mariners' reserve team failed by some distance to make it two wins against Dirty Leeds in two weeks. In fact the stiffs came out on the wrong end of a 4-1 drubbing, but after James Hunt's 22nd-minute equaliser they moved the ball around well for the rest of the first half and were probably unlucky not to have gone ahead. Martin Butler and Peter Till played 90 minutes to continue their return to fitness, and the SNOS's new design innovation of the week is a pretend electronic scoreboard thing at the top of the report. It's black text on a white background, whereas if they actually wanted it to look like an electronic scoreboard then it would be reversed out so that the text appeared to be lit up in red or yellow on a black background, so they're either consciously foregrounding the artificiality of the medium in a playful statement of postmodernity or they just couldn't be arsed. Which do you reckon it was?

In the run-up to the Dulux Cup regional semi-finals next month, the tournament's sponsor is running a competition for fans of the competing clubs to have a look at the trophy, meet some players and buy loads of their paint. Town supporters get their turn on 3 January - five days before the team visits Stockport in a bid to reach the northern area final - and the question you have to answer in order to enter can be found somewhere on the Mariners' superb new official website, buried deep among a load of tedious advertorial copy routinely knocked out by the sponsor's PR department in ten minutes last Monday afternoon.