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Diary - Thursday 11 December 2008

11 December 2008

Your Guest Diarist's first ever Town match was at home to West Ham in the cup in sixty five or whenever it was. A stirring two all draw against one of the best footballing sides in the top division. And credit to the superb new official site for once for writing a nice piece about Matt Tees book signing this weekend which mentions the self same game. Oh, I see they just cut and pasted it from here. Nearly had me fooled there.

Town youth beat Boston 4-0 the other day, and the Telegraph, sorting through the flotsam and jetsam of the recent past has run a piece celebrating the fact that the lads are top of [sponsors name removed] Youth Alliance North East Conference league. In it one can't help but notice the enthusiasm of Neil Woods for his protégés: "They took the lead at half-time and went on to score four more." OK, maybe one was disallowed. Woods feels his lads may have a bright future and we all believe him - let's just hope he works on diet as much as free kicks.

As for Tom Newey, who has been suffering from precautionary hamstring, the world waits to hear whether he will return on Saturday. The rightfully maligned enigma of a left back is basically the only one we have, so if he returns then blessings must be grudgingly counted I suppose. As Idle Diary briefly mentioned yesterday, left back trialist Adam Green had a go in the reserve match against Leeds but has been thanked and sent home with a dose of indifference from manager Newell. The lad can't get in the Woking side either - things must look grim when you are 24 and having to quite possibly face up to life not as a professional footballer when the dole queues are getting longer by the day.

Oh, and before you write in - Hegggaarty may have a contract but he is not a full back in my book. He's a lovely lad but to quote Mr Morrison: the future is uncertain and the end is always near. And Hope just lacks the speed or mobility to catch wingers or hare down the line on an overlap. So, for now, we'll have to let Newey take it. See yer.