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Diary - Monday 10 December 2007

10 December 2007

As any good postmodernist will tell you, there is no objective truth, only an infinite variety of interpretations, apart from the indisputable fact of Jeremy Clarkson being an overpaid, deluded, smug wanker with the world's most punchable face. The Mariners' resurgence after half time on Saturday - which brought them all three points at Brentford with a superb Gary Jones goal on 57 minutes - is no exception. "As is often the case with Town, they were a different side in the second half and, with a renewed purpose and more attacking outlook, they began to pepper the Brentford goal," reports the Grimsby Telegraph, while the Hounslow Guardian prefers to believe that the responsibility for its local team's failure lies mostly with the weather: "As the second half began the heavens opened and an already damp Griffin Park was drenched. This seemed to unsettle the Bees who opening [sic] sluggishly and were made to pay the penalty 12 mins [sic] into the half." Even the apparently immutable truth of football league tables can be interpreted in different ways - the Leeds United match programme's practice of rendering the third division as it would look without their 15-point deduction for cheating proves that sometimes, actually, the table does lie - and while Town have climbed two places to 20th with Saturday's win, it will take several more such results before their fans can look at the league and really see the team outside the bottom two.