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Diary - Thursday 4 December 2008

4 December 2008

Your Guest Diarist received a nice email in my inbox this morning from exiled Meggie Julie Catto (née Meech): "Well the final Matt Tees T-shirt you sent me is now in the safe ownership of Mr Tees himself - I haven't got a picture of him with it but he does have it. He sent me a couple of old photos of him signed, and a signed copy of his new book which was lovely. Will let you know if I do get the elusive photo of Matt with the Matt Tees T-shirt." So if anyone spots my boyhood hero sporting said homage, please get a snap for us! And if you are wondering then yes, it is the daughter of skipper Meech, and a quick Google soon brought up a tragic yet inspiring tale of the Jeria, which sank in 1935 with one E Meech on board. Hard as nails, brave as lions, eh?

Meanwhile a strong-looking reserve team beat Bradford 2-1 at home yesterday with a brace from, ermmm, Richard Hope, according to the superb new official site. Trialist Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro played and was impressive according to the SNOS reporter, who also mentioned that everything worth watching occurred in the first half and that Peter Till went off with a 'tight' hamstring. Here is the reported starting line-up with poor old Taylor left as a bench-warmer: Montgomery, Normington, Hegarty, Llewellyn, Heywood, Hope, Till, Akpro, North, Bore, Buscher.

Meanwhile the Telegraph has been talking to manager Newell. I like manager Newell, as you may have noticed: no, I've not met him - I mean I like writing "manager Newell". Like they said "Speaker Martin" on the news last night. But I digress: Newell has said he plans to sign three players in the January transfer window. And that he has already sort of got them lined up. Well, judge for yourself: "I have a few in mind. I've spoken to a couple of people and know the players are willing to join us in January."

That bloke Fowler played a quarter of an hour against Man Ure last night: I notice he was awarded a score of 4.49 on that BBC rate the players thingy. So if you are in the conspiracy camp then he deffo won't get a new Blackburn contract and can come and be rubbish for us instead. See yer.