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Diary - Monday 16 November 2009

16 November 2009

Does this Monday morning feel so bad? Saturday's Sixfields shindig was the stuff of no-one's legend as we march towards the Brave New World (mark 23). This is your Deviant Deja Vu Diary; that was a goalless, soulless draw. It's the same old story - they get slandered, libelled, and hear words they never read in the bible. And they didn't even lose this time.

Quiz time! Which number will be Town's highest by the season's end: a) players used; b) points scratched; c) goals scored, or d) players sent off?

Last week the Dear Leader announced he knew who he wanted to go through the motions of interviewing before giving the job to the Sorting-it One. This week he's announced, perhaps during the imperial tour of his lands on the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, that he knows who he is going to interview, sometime, soon, during this week, probably, if he hasn't got a horse to tow or some shrubs to prune, before announcing it was Russell Pupkin all along. It's a whole bunch of cheese and onion. Do I have to spell it out? Slade, Macca, Woods, Taggart, Brabin and Richardson. The loan window shuts a whole two days after Slade gets re-appointed.

"Crisis, what crisis?" one expects Sunny John to snip at Delightful Dale.

And in the parallel world of the Grimsby Town first team yet another almost signing is nearly officially announced. With Mark Hudson floating somewhere between Gainsborough and Grimsby (which satellite navigation technology insists is the tap room at the Hope Tavern in Holton-Le-Moor), an ex-Moan United cheeky chappie is exciting many. Who? Why it's Ludlow-born left-winger Sean Evans of Zamaretto League Stourbridge, of course. Sniff ye not madam. No, no and thrice no, listen... he's scored a bunch of goals already this season - in fact only three fewer than the whole of Town's first team. Another week, another trialist; it's the same old story.

Quiz time! The astute and observant among you will have noticed that we have no match report yet, and it's all because: a) the lady loves Milk Tray; b) an injunction obtained in the High Court of That Justice by Adrian Forbes; c) terminal ennui, or d) illness. Ponder and wonder.

What else is there to say? Lincoln tickets still available.

One day Adrian Forbes will not be offside.