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Diary - Tuesday 16 February 2010

16 February 2010

Your Idle Diarist was enjoying a lovely evening out last night, celebrating his daughter's birthday, when his mobile phone started to beep away as text messages arrived. Not one. Not two. Not three. Not four. No, there were more still. Over the space of two hours I received eleven text messages from Town fans telling me and asking me about the "Cooper rumour". In case you haven't heard - and you're excused if you haven't as neither had I until 6.30 last night - there are two variations on this latest murmuring.

The first flavour has it that Neil Woods will step down as Town manager today and in will come Mark Cooper, who impressively managed Kettering before leaving for a recent short spell at Peterborough. The second rumour, much a variation on the previous theme, is that if Town fail to beat Notts Conty on Wednesday night, Woods will then step down and Cooper will come in on Thursday. Asking several people in the know, the response to your diarist was "tosh" and "nothing would surprise me". So, no-one really knows.

Is there any truth in it? Would such a move be right? Or are you tired of the bored sweaty palmed message board idiots filling their half term spouting inane amounts of shit rather than getting out and enjoying the real world? At this point should the professional journalists out there, the ones who aren't out in Milan, be asking about this? And if as many as 1000 Town fans are that bothered about next season's kit, what level of response does talk of replacing the manager generate? Do you actually care? Let us know.

Still, looking on the other side of the coin, at least the BBC isn't running it as fact like they did that stupid Hope Powell rumour some fucktard dreamt up.