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Diary - Tuesday 17 March 2009

17 March 2009

What's happening tonight, then? The Diary is staying in and listening to the Town Bike album; the Mariners probably won't sign anyone on loan to fill in for Jean-Paul Kalala and Danny Boshell, but ex-future stars Straight Peter Bore and Danny North are added to the squad; some Luton Town supporters are going to say "grrrr!" to Mike Newell and wave their fists; there will be a game of football and afterwards some people will go on the internet to talk about it using clichéd insults and ineffective non-linear reasoning; and in six weeks' time one or both of Grimsby and Luton will be relegated and some of the same people will say they're not going to watch non-League football but still call themselves supporters. It's a funny old game, apparently.

If you believe the Sunday Express, Mickael Antoine-Curier could soon be the subject of a transfer bid from first division Bolton Wanderers. Then again, if you believe the Sunday Express, some of the kids who weren't killed in the Dunblane massacre, and are now teenagers, are somehow 'shaming the memory' of their dead classmates by now behaving like teenagers. If you believe the Sunday Express, in short, you really need to take a good, long look at yourself. Much like Mickael Antoine-Curier must have done after he played for six different clubs during the 2003-04 season, proving a disaster for the lot, his very name becoming a symbol of all the mismanagement at Grimsby Town at that time, because he eventually returned to British football and scored 21 times in 33 league starts since joining Dundee in January 2008. Considering it's a funny old game, it doesn't really make me laugh.