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Diary - Tuesday 13 January 2009

13 January 2009

My God, nearly two weeks of the new year and still no football. Well, no proper football - I haven't lowered myself to watching that dreary fucking Premiership shite just yet. Man Utd and Chelsea? I heard they played a game against each other and that's as far as my interest goes.

Sorry, a mildly frustrated Mardy Diary filling in ad-hoc today. I don't know where the other diarists have gone; all I know is that you're stuck with me.

So what of news relating to the Mariners then? Well, I must commend the Telewag (and I don't often do that, the piece of shit, dirty, Mail-owned rag) - but they've somehow managed to run at least three Town related stories each day for about the last month. They're clearly as excited as we all are about the Re-Newell - I almost expect them to have set up a news desk in the corner of Magic Mike's office. Everytime he speaks they publish another article: "Newell asks where his stapler has gone"; "Newell in office swearing shocker"; "Newell goes for an extended lav session"; "Newell forced to wait for shrimps". Today's juicy news snippets include another player interview (this time Clarke) with the usual "at the end of the day, Brian, we just want to be sticking the ol' pig's bladder in the back of the onion bag" type quotes. No slur on the Panda driver there, like - when there's not really any news what else is he going to say?

Their third story of the day relates to today's reserve match which will feature a few first-teamers and trialists including Buscher, Tunani and another trialist who apparently came at the same time as Tunani but no-one felt the need to mention at the time. He's called Nicholas Chrysanthou by the way. My two minutes of Googling didn't turn anything up and I'll be fucked if I'm doing any more research than that. He was at some Cypriotic champions or other, but it doesn't look like he played any matches for them. I could be wrong.

For ex-Town player news, combined with laughable, eye-liner-wearing, crook news, look no further than Crawley. The south coast team, famously managed by a convicted criminal, are getting points deducted (again) by being a bit dodgy (again) by not properly registering Isaiah Rankin or some such nonsense. Anyway, they're having a good old cry about that fact that they've been treated worse than Oxford "for an identical but much deeper breach of the Football Conference rules". That's right. Identical. But not the same. Oxford have been deducted five points to Crawley's four. Twats. Is Pinault still there?

Right, that's me done. Back to someone more eloquent tomorrow I expect. Or Idle Diary might do it.