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Diary - Monday 8 March 2010

8 March 2010

Idle Diary writes: What a difference a week makes. Seven days wallowing in the aftermath of the dismal Dagenham defeat and it, to borrow some Diddy Dave Boylen speak, is now One, Two, Three, W-hey time! 3-0, a great relief and a boost, and the players now need to keep that going. It's a start for Town's survival bid, closing their winless run at 26 games. But keep those feet on the ground. It's just a start. Five more wins and the team can ram David Burns' repeatedly repeated observation that he can't "see them getting six wins" up his arse.

Whether Town knock together five more wins or not, it'll be some time further still before they'll be comfortable enough to resort to the time-wasting and space-filling tactics of the Grimmo Telegraph in this chat with Dean Sinclair. In a prime example of what is commonly known as "modern day sports reporting", see if you can spot the multiple attempts at bulking out a skimpy piece of copy with far too many little facts and figures. We know it's just a day job and it was the weekend, but would it have hurt to maybe have got some more words out of the player?

And before you ask, no, I'm not bitter that I missed this historic victory as I was working on Saturday. No. Not at fucking all.