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Diary - Monday 14 July 2008
14 July 2008
It's official! Delroy Facey is definitely joining Town today! And how does Idle Diary know? A fishmonger accosted Guest Diary on his way t'bank this morning and told him so. And Guest Diary told me! So it must be true! Which is as concrete as the Tellywag's idle speculation and theorising on Saturday. We're still informed that Facey prefers somewhere less out of the way (ie. closer to an Ikea) like, say, Walsall or even doing naff all at Gillingham, but let's wait and see, eh.
Season ticket sales "breached the £300,000 barrier" over the weekend. For that amount of money you'd expect a barrier to give out in the face of a flood or a bouncing bomb or a great big lizard mutated by nuclear waste, not 500 people storming Fortress Blundell Park over two days to sign up in the hope Peter Bore decides to get his act together. But, well done you, the 1800 people of North-East Lincolnshire who have risen to the challenge of pledging to attend Blundell Park for the forthcoming campaign.
There's neither drainage nor sandbags at Winterton Rangers, as Town's first summer friendly on Friday was declared a wash out. After a week dodging dog shit at Weelsby Woods, three players have already cited injury concerns. The Mighty Bosh reckons the match's cancellation will be a help and he was already looking forward to the game at Corby on Wednesday. Good old Boshy! Admission prices for the home friendlies against Oldham and Lincoln have been set at a tenner a go, and for the former game the club's only opening up the Fizzy Lager Stand, whether that persuades or indeed dissuades you.
And, finally, you can always rely on the superb new official site for a laugh over one of their many oversights. Town's 'official online bookmakers' bet365 - from this example, a company that clearly shares the brand values our beloved bank-rolling Councilloring Chairman believes his club exude - have the Mariners at 11/2 for promotion. Meanwhile Luton, currently starting the season on minus 30 points, are 10/1 to go up. See you tomorrow.