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Diary - Monday 3 December 2007

3 December 2007

Oooh, I was nearly right!

Tom Newey has gone and got hisself suspended for this Saturday's visit to Brentford. The flying left-back picked up his fifth yellow card of the season in Saturday's FA Cup defeat by Phil Jevons and incurs a one-match ban which, for reasons better known to the FA than to God Himself, doesn't kick in until seven days after the fifth yellow, so Newey will be free to play in tomorrow night's 1-0 home defeat by Darlington. "He has also shown a red card for a deliberate hand ball," explains Town's superb new official website, suggesting that if the playing work dries up, Tom can readily fall back on a career as a referee.

Christmas is here, the goose is getting fat, please put a penny in the Mariners' hat. How? By using the buy.at portal of the Grimsby Town Supporters Trust, that's how. If you're unfamiliar with this nifty fundraising thingy, it's simple enough: you go to this web page and follow links from there to a range of well-known retailers and do all your Christmas shopping without having to move your arse out of your chair, and then the well-known retailers give a percentage of what you spend back to GTST. God bless us, one and all!