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Diary - Friday 22 February 2008
22 February 2008
Hiya guys, hope you're all well. Apart from you Nath - hope you're having a bad day and your work is rubbish! Durham Diary here, proclaiming to those who surely knew it already that working is bad. You heard it here last, chums.
So, Town aren't playing Wrexham tonight after all. Now I don't actually mind this trend towards games on a Friday: I prefer the atmosphere of night matches and like the combination of being able to both watch my team and have Saturday afternoon available to me. And evidence would suggest I'm in the vast majority. Pimp Daddy Diary yesterday publicly applauded the Welsh team's decision to move their Friday game to Saturday, prompting the quite splendidly named Rufus Murphy to email his strong disagreement. "I also applaud Wrexham." My mistake. "As someone who works away and can't get to Friday or midweek games, I only hope GTFC abandon this idea of moving games from Saturdays. So yar boo and er, sack me!" Although of course if they did sack you, Rufus old chap, you wouldn't work away any more and might quite fancy some Friday night football. You know, if your auntie had testicles she'd be your uncle kind of thing.
One interesting little quirk of having the 'Now We're In The Semis We're Interested' Colouring Competition match postponed on Tuesday is that Town will now play Morecambe three times in a week. With Morecambe level on points with the team in the lowest play-off place, surely some agreement can be reached by which Town get a day out at Wembley in the 'NWITSWI'CC final, and Morecambe win 10-1 on the intervening Saturday to end our play-off hopes but seriously boost theirs? What we need to do is hire an agent to broker the deal for us. Agents are under-utilised in football, in my opinion.
"Thank you" is the title of an article on the SNOS, in which the club takes the thoroughly commendable step of actually stopping and thanking those who both necessitate and facilitate the club's existence. Unfortunately, rather than thanking fans for their ongoing support, for the hours and pounds spent cheering on the team in various locations of the British Isles, the club has publicly announced its gratitude to those who "represented the club at the Football Freerole Poker tournament which was held on Thursday night". Incredibly, this is not the crassest part of the article, which title is reserved for the final line: "If you was there tonight click here to tell us". My stomach churns.
Will the players play tomorrow like they did against Dagenham because they're concentrating more on the possibility of getting to Wembley, or will they play like they had done previously in an attempt to force their way into the side that graces the hallowed turf should Town get there? Only time, I suspect, will tell. The SNOS reckons Fenton and Whittle are "slight doubts", while Newey is "likely to miss out". Add to this the fact that Sam Hird's time at Grimsby has become like milk in a student fridge, having both expired and gone a little bit sour, and one worries that Town may be left a little light at the back. I myself, I must confess, am somewhat distracted by the possibility of a trip to the new Wembley. I don't honestly think we're in a position to reach the play-offs, nor will we be relegated, and I find myself hoping we win tomorrow only to set us up well for the first of the forthcoming Morecambe trilogy.
It's now half past one, and I'm determined to make the 2pm target time for publication (which I found out existed by reading D-unit's words on Tuesday: no-one ever tells me anything!) for the first time. Besides which, I quite fancy a nap before my 4:15 lecture. Gee, I'm sure glad I don't have to work! Enjoy your weekend, one and all.