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Diary - Tuesday 24 June 2008

24 June 2008

Hey there. Idle Diary here again. They've got Acorn Brewery's Summer Pale at the local boozer and I've just finished off a monster job at w*rk that's sucked up three weeks of my life so I'll make this brief. Otherwise I'll dwell on the backroom staff at GTFC and get wound up by those BLOODY FECKLESS AMATEURS. Hang on. I'm off again. Sorry... Just count one-two-three, slowly. One... Two... Three... That's better...

The latest home game to be rebooked is the match against Bournemouth, now a Friday night fixture on 21 November. And whereas the club believes it can justify moving the Bradford game forward, they offer no reason this time. It's certainly not an England game anyway, with the friendly with Germany in Berlin on Wednesday 19 November. Maybe they did it for the sheer hell of it, those crazy guys!

Lincoln are the latest club to throw their hat into the ring for Michael Boulding. I've lost track of how many clubs are chasing Quick Mick about, Benny Hill-style. Will they all have to bid for his life on eBay? One club that won't be in the running is Chester, who have a transfer embargo.

Speedy snapper Jonathon Moscrop, so long a fixture on the Blundell Park sidelines taking pictures of Town games, upped to Italy a few years ago. He's now covering the European Championship. Is it a coincidence such a lifestyle change occurred after Nicky Law's spell in charge? A lesson for us all there.

Another lesson, this time in fashion, for the kind of Town-supporting guy or gal that prefers to lounge about home not in cotton, denim, suede or corduroy, but polyester-based clothing ("the material [which] allows rapid sweat evaporation for greater levels of comfort and performance"), check out the latest "attentive selection" of Town leisurewear. "Erreà believes in sport. Erreà believes in your devotion to sport," says the marketing blurb on the OS. Yeah? And Erreà believes you'll buy into that shit so you shell out for the clobber.

And, finally, let's get all WarGames: do you want to play a game? A club-sympathising article in the Grimsby Telegraph shows a list of the few players that have moved since the end of the season. Twenty, they reckon. I spotted Chris Brandon's move to Bradford missing. Can you spy any more? Let us know. The winner is the victor in a thermonuclear war.

Still no new signings.