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Diary - Friday 9 April 2010
9 April 2010
Doesn't anyone ever email the Diary any more? Hello, readers. It's your original and once-regular Diary today, who's been here long enough to know that some people get terribly offended when you talk about politics. Speaking of which, it comes as no surprise that David Cameron says "let's start with the public sector" when introducing his idea that the highest earners in an organisation should be paid no more than 20 times the lowest. If he wants us to believe that this isn't just another stick to bash the public sector with, why doesn't he approach all the private companies who ganged up with him on the National Insurance cut, and ask them to implement his grand plan for equality as well? If you don't think a daily online news round-up about a small provincial football club should say things like that, make your own website.
So either all the news has waited until Friday or all the other Diaries just ignored it. Let's start with loanee centre-half Oliver Lancashire, who was wrongly shown the fourth red card of his 30-match career against Northampton last Friday by hallucinating referee Anthony Taylor. Following an appeal by GTFC, the sending-off has been overturned by some men in suits and 3D glasses, freeing him up to appear at Hereford tomorrow and restoring the three points Town were robbed of by Taylor's shit decision, apart from the last bit. Other team news is that Nick Colgan might be back and ready to have his performance undermined by more of your good-natured abuse, but the drugs don't work for walking cortisone sponge Lee Peacock, whose troublesome achilles thing will keep him out for a second successive game. Hit the Cod Almighty pre-match factfile for your fix of day-before-the-game truth.
Ever the bastion of proactive local journalism, the Grimsby Telegraph has come up with a story about Nathan Jarman in response to some people talking about him on a messageboard, or something, probably. The out-of-favour Town forward, who hasn't played for ages because that's what being out of favour means, has apparently been moaning on some shit website or other and Neil Woods has handled the issue in absolutely the right way. Er, I guess that's the end of the story then. Bye.
What else? This week the names drawn out of the hat to Tell The Telegraph We've Not Been The Best Lately But We'll Get Better Now, Honest are Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro and Mark Hudson. That's not interesting in the least, admittedly, but in turning from an unfocused running machine to a consistent and genuine goal threat over the past couple of months Akpa Akpro also seems to have changed nationality from French to Ivorian. The Diary intends to apply immediately for Ghanaian citizenship to see if I wake up tomorrow morning as a respected and generously remunerated journalist, and indeed whether there is such a thing as a respected and generously remunerated journalist.
Did anyone mention that Chambers lad going back to Leicester? It was Leicester, wasn't it? Shame, that, what with him having marked himself out from the other 913 forwards to have appeared for the Mariners this season by demonstrating a peculiar ability to score goals. Well, if you're not emailing, I have to do something to make sure you're still reading. Have a good time if you're going tomorrow, have a good time if you're not, and remember it's only a game!