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Diary - Tuesday 27 April 2010
27 April 2010
So you know last week, when the Conservatives' John Fenty gave an interview to Mariners Player, right? And he went into considerable detail about his plans for running the club in the Conference, didn't he? And Town sort of aren't actually relegated just yet? Well, here's my question. Is it just the Diary who thought this was spectacularly inappropriate?
Hello readers. For a second successive day your original Diary (2002-10) is back on the case. And what an honour it is to be doing the job in the run-up to the most important game in the history of Grimsby Town Football Club. I refer, of course, to tonight's meeting between Accrington Stanley and Barnet, where a win for the Hertfordshire/north London side will dump the Mariners out of the Football League for the first time in a century. Remember John Fenty represents the Conservatives, by the way. Do you have any special plans for this evening's occasion? Email diary@codalmighty.com and let us know. I thought I might follow the match with the BBC online text commentary, light a candle and get shit-faced on Jim Beam or something.
Whichever division Woodses's battlers find themselves in next season, they'll need reinforcements. Especially, the Diary suspects, in the centre of the park, once Dean Sinclair has signed for Notts County, Peter Sweeney's contract has been paid up and Woods insists on PLAYING PEACOCK UP FRONT FFS. So it is that Bradford midfielder Luke Sharry has arrived on trial and will play for the reserves against Leeds tomorrow. Twenty years old, with two first team games to his name for the financially challenged West Yorkists, Sharry has been compared by Bradford fans to a Mariners midfield great of the recent past, and has 47 friends on Facebook.
Are you planning to attend the match that could be Town's last as a Football League club? Are you hoping a bad day isn't made even worse by a gaggle of nylon-clad Grimbarian mouth-breathers running across the pitch at the end, waving their hands about a bit in a vaguely threatening manner, and then dispersing into the town to intimidate women with young children in pushchairs? Then you'll want to know about tickets for the trip to Burton Albion on 8 May. The Mariners' superb new official website reported yesterday that there are 1,400 of the things, and they're on sale now, one per person, to season ticket holders, in person at the ticket office only. The Mariners' superb new official website reports today that that there are 1,400 of the things, and they're on sale now, one per person, to season ticket holders, in person at the ticket office only, except for season ticket holders outside the DN postal code area, who can buy over the phone. Get in! If you're not a season ticket holder, you'll have to hope there are still some left after the Barnet match this Saturday, when they go on general sale. "We won't be selling tickets to anyone who looks like a knobhead," a club spokesperson didn't add, but should have.