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Diary - Monday 16 March 2009
16 March 2009
After Simon Heslop turned out to be unfit and rubbish, Liam Trotter finished three months and went to Scunny, Malvin Kamara covered the wrong position, Jean-Paul Kalala got injured, Stuart Elliott preferred Doncaster reserves, Dean Sinclair got injured and Adrian Forbes turned out to be a striker, Town are in the market for another loan midfielder following the injury to Danny Boshell which forced him off at Chester on Saturday, where the midfield already had a patched-up look about it as James Hunt made his first appearance for two and a half months. According to the Mariners' superb new official website, Mr Michael Re-Newell is hopeful that his squad might be boosted in time for tomorrow night's fixture. "In terms of the squad, it does leave us a bit light. We might be able to do something about that in time for the Luton game," said Newell, crossing his fingers that the Football League has forgotten about its rules for the maximum number of loans one club can make in a season.
Luton, meanwhile, probably hate Town because we gave their old manager a job and football is kind of silly like that. Granted, the situation is more than usually complicated because of Mr Re-Newell's legal action against the Hatters to claim money he is fully entitled to legally and contractually - the dastardly twister! - and with all this 30-point deduction gubbins, but the Diary is in little mood to add anything further to the phrase "them's the breaks". Apart from the phrase "they're probably still just sulking from when we beat them 7-1".
It might not be on a par with planting false evidence about terrorism or slandering the victims of the Hillsborough tragedy, but the notorious Sun newspaper has been up to its tricks again - and this time your very own Cod Almighty is the victim. Two weeks after the CA team got GTFC included in Danny Baker's 'totalitarian league' of 20 clubs who could represent the whole of football, by virtue of the other teams' managers Town have got sacked, the football supplement in today's Sun mentions the same thing - using some of the exact same wording Cod Almighty has used in our own coverage. For more on the Sun and its crimes against copyright, journalism, truth and society, the Diary recommends an hour or so reading through the superb The Sun - Tabloid Lies blog, and that includes you, Mat!
Lastly today, the Diary congratulates the Internet Mariners, which, I seem to recall, is the name for Town's fans' team. Why? Nutty's email sent over the weekend explains all. "It may have been a bore draw in the afternoon but the fans' team walloped their Chester counterparts five nil in the morning." Fantastic! Sounds like Newell's hotshots could do far worse than prepare for their next game by forgetting the posh training facilities at Everton and being forced to watch the supporters show them how it's done.