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Diary - Thursday 27 January 2011

27 January 2011

Idle Diary writes: Christ. Thanks, Regular Mochachino Diary. Thanks for using all the Boyes emails yesterday! That bollocks my plan to fill the twilight Thursday slot, you rotter! All that is left is a note from David Robertson, who seems to be some sort of Boyes groupie: "I've had the delight of shopping in Boyes in Whitby, Barnard Castle, Darlington, Stockton and Billingham. Billingham is most northerly and Barnard Castle may be more westerly than Bradford - haven't got my OS grid references out to check though! Surely easier to check on t'internet!" While we were trying our best to avoid referring to the internet, such check does need to be verified. And David's bang on about Barnard Castle being the most westerly Boyes. David finishes off remarking "Chester le Street seems furthest north; must be the worst store with it being full of Mackems." The worst Boyes? Shall we stop now before we ruin the memory of this writer's youthful trips down Freemo Street with his nana?

Unfortunately, there's only three bits of Town news today. Neil Woods reiterates the club haven't made a second bid for Cambridge winger Robbie Willmott, while Mansfield's Rob Duffy is now in talks with Neath for a move to Welsh Premier League side. The big news is the youth team. Step forward young 'uns, for it is your time in the spotlight! Tonight the lads take on Newcastle Utd's juniors, the winners facing a FA Youth Cup fifth round tie against their Manchester United counterparts. To get this far is a great achievement for Robbie Stockdale's charges, so we say just go out and enjoy it. If you get through, you get through. You'll learn either way. Isn't that point of youth football?

So, apologies for the short diary today. What I would recommend is you use the time you would have spent reading a longer diary, by going to this interview with Bradford City joint chairman Mark Lawn. Read it. And then come back to us with your thoughts. Because there's a lot there worth nattering about, a lot of it resonating with this writer about lower league football in general, parallels with our club, and also what Lawn says compared to the thoughts of our club's chairman, John Fenty. So go on. Have a read and drop us a line with your thoughts, using the feedback page if you would.

And if anyone reading this in the local media, see if Fenty will commit to the same sort of open and lengthy interview - and be prepared to run it from start to finish. And if he and you won't? It's been a while but we'll try.