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Diary - Wednesday 23 July 2008

23 July 2008

No sooner had Danny North broken the habit of Town's lifetime at Winterton the other night by both (a) being a striker and (b) scoring a goal before mid-autumn than Martin Butler had equalled his epoch-shattering feat. Not only that, but the Mariners managed a win and some good football in last night's run-out at Gainsborough Trinity, where Butler's 23rd-minute strike wrapped up the scoring following a tasty 20-yarder from the excellent Peter Till in the game's opening minutes. In a selection looking much more like the side that will face Rochdale on 9 August, new signings Chris Llewellyn and Richard Hope also impressed. See Tony Butcher's report for an update on Straight Peter Bore's shorts.

That's all the news that's fit to print today - as the story of how Lincoln City's prospective new Romanian centre-forward secured a trial with the club is certainly unfit for a reputable website such as Cod Almighty - so let's take a look at what Diary readers have been saying in emails. Today's inbox is composed entirely of a single contribution from Dave Chambers, who writes, apropos of I don't know what: "I'm seeing the Diary in a maroon pair of boxer shorts, and a slightly short (or shrunk) Winnie the Pooh T-shirt." Thanks for that, Dave. I really must figure out how to switch this webcam off.