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Diary - Monday 2 November 2009

2 November 2009

Today's turn at Tell The Telegraph We've Not Been The Best Lately But We'll Get Better Now, Honest falls jointly to Adrian Forbes and Barry Fucking Conlon, the two goalscorers from F****y n***t's 2-2 draw with Accrington. For those who have started supporting Grimsby in the last five minutes, this is a ritual whereby a player (or players) give an interview to the local paper in which he acknowledges that the team, given its apparent strength on paper, has certainly been underachieving somewhat over recent times - you know, like the past seven or eight years - but rest assured, he and his colleagues are firmly resolved to put that right, starting now! Forbes and Conlon, like the Telegraph itself, are too easily tempted to see the latter's 95th-minute equaliser against Stanley as Some Sort Of Potential Turning Point for the team, telling the Riby Square Thunderer: "Fingers crossed - it's onwards and upwards now" and "I think we deserved a point. Hopefully we can build on that now" respectively. But what do you think the revival of Town's fortunes will depend upon, readers? A fortuitous late equaliser against a bunch of cheating cloggers - or the recruitment of some players who actually give a shit whether they win or lose?

In other news today, the one managerial appointment John Fenty (Con) has managed so far which briefly looked like it might not end in disaster, Russell 'Sort It' Slades, has been sacked by Brighton but won't come back to Grimsby because of his lingering bitterness at the way he was treated by supporters during his two-year stint in Cleethorpes. I dunno, eh, all we did was jeer and boo his players every week and hoist up a banner in the Pontoon saying 'Slade out' when he'd been in charge less than a year and his team was in mid-table. Some people are just so touchy.