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Diary - Monday 17 November 2008

17 November 2008

"14:55, Monday 17th. The Monday after THAT Saturday and still no Diary," reads an email sent at 13:55 by Ken Andrews, who is presumably still working to British Summer Time. Before THAT Saturday the Mariners' last league win was at Mansfield on Saturday 22 March, a week before the clocks went forward for the summer. Ken can easily be forgiven for having a mixed-up internal clock today, as he is probably far from being the only Town fan thus afflicted. "Everyone in shock?" he wonders. "PS: I was there. Great, weren't it?" Sadly, I wasn't. At the final whistle on THAT Saturday, as hundreds of text messages radiated from Gigg Lane to absent Mariners scattered through the land, one reached the Diary as I was changing trains at Stockport station en route to Stoke-on-Trent. And for once I'd had a bet on Town to win instead of lose (as suggested by Guest Diary here on Friday). Suffice it to say that the underground concourse at Stockport station has tremendous acoustics.

Jeff Westerman is another whose joy at Saturday's result was sweetened all the more by the turf accountants. "I was indeed daft or stupid enough to wage on Town winning, for which my five pound stake was greatly rewarded," he grins in an email to the Diary. "Never lose faith in your team! The amount of idiots who had backed against Town in the pub on Saturday was unreal - thank you Diary for inspiring me. Keep up the good work. UTM!" Did anyone else make a few quid out of the weekend's extraordinary result? Did you not make it to the match but celebrate as if we'd won the European Cup when you got that text message at full time? Email diary@codalmighty.com to share your tales of THAT Saturday!

The Cod Almighty team has been in various states of absence and drunken delirium since approximately 4:55pm on Saturday: hence the lack of a match report, but Pat Bell has submitted an account of the game to the CA editorial desk and it will be published as soon as we sober up enough to operate the site's content management system - hopefully in the next hour or two. Now, could someone bring me a strong cup of black coffee please?

Up the bleedin' Mariners!