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Diary - Friday 23 May 2008
23 May 2008
"Good old Guest Diary" he said. Well less of the good if you please! Why only yesterday I was rubbing shoulders with the delightful Rachel de Thame at Chelsea flower show. How bad ass is that? Actually, like the gardens she was much smaller, and bonier in the flesh having evidently succumbed to an excessive post-maternity yummy mummy diet. But Eric Pollard was on the train coming home, obviously in a different seating class to me though. You know, the expensive one reserved for minor soap stars and lazy civil servants smirking as they waste the tax payers hard-earned money, and fill out their expense forms.
Christ, travelling by train is complicated now, gentle reader. It took me half an hour, and four false starts, to buy the ticket online during which I was quoted five different prices. It took stamina I can tell you. And then you don't get a ticket any more. No, you get a ticket, and then another ticket that you have to carry to prove that you are entitled to have the other ticket or summat. And I had to buy another set of tickets for the first half of the journey. Hitchhiking suddenly sees attractive again I can tell you.
So what happened Town-wise whilst I was away getting footsore down the smoke? Well, a return to that superbest and ever-new official web site reassured me that I hadn't missed a lot with that Hereford 2 Grimsby 0 scoreline still dominating the first page. But those who are fascinated with the naming of modern youth can draw comfort and ponder on an article about those who are signed up to play for the youth team. That American lad Mr Moore has been given a contract, subject to him getting a work permit. So Town have their first centre-half named after an eighties American soap opera. Here is what our American cousins have to say about it all.
The article goes on to give us more names that have been scrawled on the squad sheet: "Moore will be joined in the Town Youth team by former School of Excellence players Mark Gray (centre-half), Josh Fuller (right midfield/striker), Harry Deane (centre midfield), Danny Brittle (centre midfield), Bradley Wood (right-back/centre midfield)." After an advertising break, the article ends somewhat wearily with this isolated and erratic sentence: "Centre forwards Tom Corner and Nathan Dixon are new editions [sic] at the club." So it sounds like we need left-sided players and a goalkeeper. Maybe we should try and find them amongst the eastern Europeans thronging our streets. At least they don't need home office approval to kick the onion bag for a living, eh?
Do you know I am so bored I just visited the Grimsby Town Supporters Trust website? Well, I did, and there is a new initiative described that these dull but worthy people have dreamt up, "Life membership by instalment". I find that concept funny for some reason, but then I am rather unhinged these days. I am pretty sure this is entirely due to the onset of New Labour, but know that two years of 'compassionate conservatism would probably finish me off altogether so have resolved to hedge my bets by declaring myself 'unfit to vote'. By the way, these instalments are only over a ten month period, so you have less than a year to cram in a lifetime's giving. So you had better hurry up folks.
The Trust has been going for about five years now I think, and, reading elsewhere on their site, I note that two of their board members have jacked it in lately because their busy lives can't cope any more with the cut and thrust of life in the Trust lane any more. So anyone interested in 'that sort of thing' should get it together, man, and rap with the trust. Me, I chose the blue pill ages ago so am disbarred from serving up anything more than this dross. Time to go, my bones are rattling - see yer.