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Diary - Wednesday 24 March 2010

24 March 2010

Middle-Aged Diary writes: "Joe Paisley, but you are probably too young to remember him" is the cryptic start to Antony Chapman's letter to the Diary. Now, being Middle-Aged Diary, this is something of a challenge, but I must confess to being none the wiser, unless the question was "Name the folk-rock artist who wrote 'This Town'." As I see that Paisley's "lyrics take us on a journey through ... the pain we endure in any relationship", not least with a fourth division football club no doubt, this does seem a more relevant question than one might at first suspect. On the other hand, it could be an attempt to answer in two words the question David Elvidge posed in Friday's Diary, asking after anyone who has been appointed internally and been an outstanding manager, by citing both Joe Fagan and Bob Paisley, who, with Kenny Dalglish, succeeded Bill Shankly during Liverpool's must successful period.

Antony goes on to ask "What's this in-joke about 'Straight' Peter Bore? The endless repetition has got boring. Not h*m*ph*b*a, I hope?" For this we must turn to the one and only original Diary (but please continue to accept imitations) who takes us back to his entry of 6 February 2007: "Not homophobia, no: in fact, it's a mild rebuke to Bore's own soft homophobia, which emerged the other year when the player's Myspace profile came to light. In this, Bore bravely came out as a screaming hetero by deeming it necessary to describe his sexual orientation as not merely straight but 'STRAIGHT!'"

This might perhaps have deterred those scouts from other clubs who are said to be "eyeing up" the new improved right-back (with 35% more heart), except that the story proves to be little more than the Telegraph's attempt to fill space by rehashing recent comments by Neil Woods, including the hardly emphatic quote "I think he is attracting the attention of other clubs - it would be wrong if he wasn't."

In other news, Jamie Devitt is still likely to remain with Town for the rest of the season, despite a sore knee, and Adrian Forbes and Paris Cowan-Hall may play some part in the reserves' tie at home to Lincoln this afternoon.

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Farewell.