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Diary - Thursday 19 August 2010

19 August 2010

Communal Thursday Diary writes: With a record of one hard fought away win and one draw after a good home performance your Mariners and mine have made a satisfactory start to life as a non-League club. Of course this is a ridiculous description as we're in a league. Distressingly, this was all too much for one funster going by the name of 'Woods Out', who dismissed Town's first steps in this brave new world with a to-the-point summation of the first two games before demanding the sacking of his namesake. Personally your diarist didn't expect the world from Town in the early-going (or ever) and is just pleased to have begun in a fashion unknown in recent seasons.

Reserves Held By Hull City goes the headline in the super absorbent local paper. This is news as our financially overstretched north-bank neighbours sit three tiers above Town in first team football. Clearly our squad has much more depth to it than we knew as the being held part implies a degree of superiority. The SNOS is rather more restrained, clearly not wanting to dwell on this embarrassing failure to overcome the Tigers' second eleven...

So, Town's fortunes are obviously on the up - seventh in the Conference, a reserve league powerhouse and second-string kings of the Humber elect - and all is well with the world.

Finally, away from the nonsense of organised sports, Rob has emailed the diary to share with us this important new find: "I can't remember who the writer was, but I remember an interview on Radio 4 in which he said he got his characters' names from reading the goalie's and the first named defender's names in The Sunday Times footie reports. For example, (1) Barrington, and (2) Smythe gave him the character 'Barrington Smythe'. Trivial, I concede, but I find myself doing this every Sunday morning as I look at the teams. Try it! Anyhow, for tonight's match we had goalkeeper Arthur, and first-named defender Ridley, giving us 'Arthur Ridley'. Now, wasn't Arthur Ridley the actor who played 'Private Godfrey' in Dad's Army? I wonder how many of your readers noticed this, and of those who did, how many gave a fuck. I did, hence this e-mail." Good man, Rob. And if you haven't abandoned ship after two not-unsuccessful matches at the start of a long season, good on you too.