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Diary - Monday 13 December 2010

13 December 2010

Mardy Diary writes: Hello there! It's been a while, and I see in my absence that lots has happened: we've signed a player and played a match. What more could possibly happen in the world of football? Not a goddamn lot - and today's news only serves to reinforce this. Yes - there was snow, and then there was not snow. And then we won a game of football. And that is it really. This season's dragging already isn't it?

And so it is in these times of news paucity that we delve in to the diary postbag, discard the bleedin' Holker Street Newsletter that our good friends at Barrow seem determined to send us about three times a day, and move on to your missives. Is there really that much news at Barrow? It sounds like a hive of activity. I suppose I should actually read one and find out what it is exactly that's going on there. I am afeared of what I may find though, so I'll leave it for now. But if news stays this dry for another week, I may have to publish one in its entirety. My hand may be forced, that's all I'm saying.

Anyway, Steve Carlton has been kind enough to drop us a line about famous people at BP. "After reading about David Elvidge's celeb spotting at Blundell Park, I'll see his Terry McDermott and raise him Elton John." It's a bold opening gamble, no mistaking. "We played Watford at home, probably 1999/2000 or something like that. He turned up in the Upper Findus wearing a long camel coloured coat." Good spot, Steve. "I'm pretty sure I'm not making this up." Ooh, so close. So confident to begin with before fading when it mattered most - like a foray up the wing by Peter Bore. Was it real, was it a dream? I'll leave it up to the reader to corroborate this factoid - you know what to do.

Chris Beeley is another person having visions of the famous: "Just wondering if Teddy Pendergrass or Chef from South Park is now writing for the SNOS - 'help us get it on' (8/12/10)? Oh no, it's about snow clearing." And they did indeed get it 'on' - after much huffing and puffing late in to the evening. "I have to say living a long way away from GY reading the article did make me feel wistful, I could imagine if I lived locally bunking off work and turning up tomorrow with my shovel encountering a crowd of jovial ruddy face Mariners fans clapping each other on the back and exchanging banter, perhaps the odd player mucking in, a throw back to the good old days, jumpers for goal posts etc." Well, not really wishing to ruin that image Chris, but I will anyway, it's more likely to be purple-faced Town fans screaming "You're shit Beeley. Get it off, you waste of space. Behind you, the snow you tool!" and then leaving the ground ten minutes before you finish. "Anyway, forgive my ramblings, I'm off now to help Lee Peacock push his Jeep out of the snow." You needn't have bothered.

Oh look - away at Kettering or Chasetown in the next round of the cup. Oh, the irony. Seeya.