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Diary - Tuesday 5 January 2010

5 January 2010

Liam Trotter has gone to Millwall on loan? Does that count as news? It does this week, because (a) today's is a Diary snatched at between the long, pointy teeth of circumstance, as Baby Diary's nursery is closed because of the snow; and (b) there isn't any news. When there isn't any news, of course, and nothing is happening, the mainstream football media fill the space by shifting the focus of the stories from 'such-and-such thing has happened' and 'someone has said something'. Accordingly, today's Grimsby Telegraph brings us the news that the Mariners' new loan star Paris Hilton has said something (Town have been a bit unlucky lately; hopefully I can score a goal) and O'Peterborough's existing loan star Ryan Bennett, similarly, has said something (Town have been a bit unlucky lately; stop slagging off my old teammates).

What a fine thing it is, then, that Richard Lord has emailed: "I was just wondering whether someone could enlighten me on a story my dad told me during the Christmas break," he just wonders. "Apparently, a few decades ago, the town of Grimsby used to have a more than handy police team. In fact, according to my dearest father  (who is the son of a man who had a penchant for exaggerating things) the police force used to deploy any officer who was more than 'handy' with a ball at his feet to the Grimsby area so he could play in a top team. We were renowned for having excellent police footballers. Exact years, timescales and names escape my dad's memory, so I was wondering if anyone else knew about this, and what (if at all) the police team achieved?" Well, please email diary@codalmighty.com if you can help to answer Richard's question. It all seems a far cry from the team that recently fielded Ashley Sestanovich, Jamie Lawrence and Curtis Woodhouse.