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Diary - Wednesday 28 July 2010

28 July 2010

You know how it is with the Mariners. If we have a really good set of results in pre-season, the season itself ends up being really terrible. And if we have a really terrible set of results in pre-season, the season itself ends up being really terrible. Still, if you want a positive to take (and your original Diary is in sore need of consolation this week) then at least there's a clean sheet to bring home from last night's draw at Gainsborough, despite a shaky performance from top fan scapegoat du jour Nick Colgan. If you're still hungry for questions after completing today's awesome CA quiz then here's another one for you. Which of these people has overseen three relegations so far in less than a decade as the controlling influence of Grimsby Town Football Club: (a) Nick Colgan? (b) John Fenty?

Incidentally, by the way, I know sightings of Charlie Ademeno are about as frequent as expressions of tolerance and support for multiculturalism in North East Lincolnshire, but has there actually been any news about his injury? What's going on with the lad? There were two half-decent posts on Town's superb new official website about three weeks ago but since then it's been back to the usual. Still, at least nobody followed directions from the SNOS to get to last night's game and ended up in Southport. Always a bonus.

And it's not just that there's no word from Neil Woods about why trialists Dwayne Samuels and Alex Dyer didn't get on the pitch last night. It's also that the Grimsby Telegraph forgot to ask him.

Let's turn instead, then, to the unanswered question that has haunted Grimsby Town fans for almost 15 years, as we've watched our once proud club plummet down the divisions quicker than lager turns to piss. That question, of course: was it a plate of chicken sandwiches or chicken wings involved in the Brian Laws/Ivano Bonetti incident at Luton in 1996? This recent article comes down firmly in the wings camp. But what's your understanding? Email diary@codalmighty.com and maybe we can settle the issue and put the whole thing behind us forever. Or at least until we try and establish whether Bri punched Ivano after Ivano chucked the food at him or Ivano's cheekbone was broken by the plate that the food was sitting on...