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Diary - Wednesday 7 April 2010

7 April 2010

Mardy Diary: Gutted. That's how John Coleman, manager of Accrington Stanley, feels. He's never felt so bad - seeing his Accrington team lose to the likes of Grimsby. Christ - it's bad enough still getting patronised by those black and white frauds from the north-east, without bloody Accrington joining in too.

Anyway - in typical Town form, still this season lingers on. It wouldn't be normal to just have done with it - get it out the way. This will be torture to the bitter end. I fully believe this season will again go down to the final two games - and that's not to suggest we'll stay up, or even have a realistic chance of staying up - but that it won't be mathematically over until the very end. Just that little bit of hope - just a grain, to keep you hanging on. Keep you thinking that if we do that, and Torquay do this, and Cheltenham do the other - oh and look - there's Lincoln in sniffing distance with a handful of difficult games coming up. They'll win them of course - because Lincoln are the sort of side that do that sort of thing. As are Cheltenham - despite never looking like a side capable of even playing football. Torquay though - there's something Town-like about them. In fact, it would be typical Town to pull ourselves briefly out of this mire right near the end, before slumping back down with a disappointing away draw at Burton. And so the faint hope begins to gain momentum as we approach the weekend...

Actually - who knows what will happen between now and 'The End'? I tried to convince a friend on Saturday that Adrian Forbes would come on in the last game of the season, run about like a mentalist before tripping over and deflecting the ball in to the Burton net to secure a late winner and our Football League status, thus turning him in to an instant Grimsby legend. He wasn't convinced. We'll see.