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Diary - Monday 22 June 2009

22 June 2009

How's it going? Mardy Diary here - in a relatively good mood, I must admit. But then I'm not at work today and that generally makes me happy.

Nothing much to report again, I guess because players are still sort of under contract or on holiday or whatever else it is they do in June. It has me wondering though - do lots of footballers jet off on their holidays in the middle of June? And do prices go up as a result? You know - if you've got school age children and you want to go on holiday then generally you can only go during the summer holidays. As a result there's a lot of demand and people charge what the hell they want, so it costs about £3,000 a night for a skip in the Fitties. Well surely there should be similar premiums in June for those cash-rich footballers going on their yearly break? Where do they all go anyway? Have any of our readers set off on holiday around June only to realise they're surrounded by a plane full of lower-league footballers? Or have you ever booked a couple of weeks break in a resort and arrived to find yourself sharing the pool with the entire reserve team of Hartlepool? We want your holiday/footballer stories to the usual address, please.

Anyway, in these times of scarce news all credit to the Telewag for somehow still managing to run at least one story on Town EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE WEEK. I mean that genuinely though - and admittedly some of the stories are tenuous to say the least - but all publicity is good publicity as they say and the club can only benefit from being on the back pages of the local rag everyday.

And so I leave you on this quiet Monday still with that pleading look in your eye and that mantra running through your mind: "please sign Sweeney, please sign Sweeney". Tomorrow you will be in the ever capable hands of another guest diarist - our regular Diary having booked a week in Spain to go footballer spotting.

One last bit of breaking news though. It was reported that Mike Newell had sent a few texts to 'Sweens' when he was on holiday. One of our technical experts has managed to intercept one of these messages, and we print it in full here: "Playa u is well wikid c u at bp in 2 wks n tings ight brup brup". You heard it here first. Seeya.