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Diary - Friday 18 January 2008

18 January 2008

Are you planning to tick off another ground on your list tomorrow, folks? Although Alan Buckley thinks we might have played at the Dagenham ground before - against Maidstone in his second season at the club. We drew 2-2 in early 1990, so did anyone go that day, and can they verify where they went?

Not that it matters because Town will be there tomorrow. And indeed the team are travelling down today, which our great leader reports as a practice he is not keen on. Due to a combination of someone's infant teething and someone else's hangover your Guest Diarist has done the team news in Cod Almighty's rather factual yet strangely riveting factfile, so you will have to go there to hear about Ryan Bennett's feet, Nick Fenton's head and Martin Butler's sick note back. Plus the marvellously named new Dagenham striker and why he could be Anelka in disguise.

To be honest, it is sort of time that maybe Town came unstuck on their travels. And where more likely than at a non-League ground against a team who have been losing and have lost their 'star' striker to a serious injury? But then again, we keep winning and seem to have found a formation that keeps the goals against down, so perhaps the faintly surprising streak will continue a while longer. I'm sure there will be a good crowd of Town fans there - the London exiles are pretty good at turning up and there will be a slew making the trip down from Grimsby as well.

I can't resist telling you some more about Shabazz Baidoo (aka MC Terminator), whom Dagenham signed this week as a stop-gap striker. Being 52, I am not allowed to know much about the grime scene, but I gather young Shabazz is a fully paid-up member of the north London grime crew known as Cold Blooded. Whether he espouses sublow, 8bar or eskibeat will require further research which, at this stage of a Friday morning, I am simply not prepared to do. However, after a bright start at QPR, where Mr Baidoo displayed "blistering pace at the tender age of 16", his footballing career appears to have faltered somewhat. Just bring on those growling guttural bass lines, piped up manager John Still at his first training session (resisting the urge to say "wicked", I expect).

Well-known Grimsby heterosexual youth Peter Bore's Myspace (spit) page is a very private place so I can't get his view as to whether he is tough on grime (or the causes of grime) but he has this to say about his life: "NEW Jus' PowWwW I Met This Girl And She Just Moved Right U The block From Me". Good news, one hopes, eh? See yer.