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Diary - Tuesday 28 June 2011
28 June 2011
Could he be a proper Town player, as so pertinently defined by that Miss Guest Diary on these pages last Thursday? Town fans all over the place seem to think so. Shaun Pearson has an awful lot to live up to as he gets his chance in the full-time professional game after finally signing a two-year contract yesterday for a fee to be decided by tribunal.
And someone else without a contract got a club yesterday. Mr Charles Adesola O O Ademeno passed a most thorough medical before joining the ranks of AFC Wimbledon. Your Guest Diarist's brain has been turned to mush by the whirl of thoughts this news provoked. Did we ever give the lad a proper chance, or is he just a big crybaby beneath our contempt? Come on, gentle reader, email us what you think.
The cameras were rolling at Cheapside yesterday as the Mariners Player crew interviewed the short quieter manager and then Robbie Stockdale as the youth team had their first training session of the new season. Five minutes after watching the Shorty interview I'm struggling to remember anything worthwhile being asked or answered. We've signed players who used to be quality and surely still are, and we've signed players who will have quality as soon as they train five times a week. And we've signed them in time to bond over a bit of pre-season training, is all that comes back to me.
The Stockdale interview, by way of contrast, is lively and not remotely pompous. Robbie definitely comes across as warm, enthusiastic and mindful that he has responsibility for awkward growing teenagers, some of them having just left home, most of them doing a day's work for the first time. He's settling them in: 14 so far, with more trials coming up. Six second-years and the rest newbies. Thank goodness yesterday's quite ridiculous heatwave has passed - running in that weather must have been hell.
Town's senior midfield player is appealing for help to decide where to live. Decisions, decisions - Scartho or Immingham? Boy, this guy needs sound advice and fast. If you want decent schools try Caistor, mate. And while we are chatting, as it were, can you take a decent corner? Because we need someone who can. When Eagle first arrived his pre-season corners were a joyful wonder to behold, but then later they were just plain awful.
John Fenty (Con) has been making the mistake of speaking in public again. The paper-thin-skinned chairman has been barely concealing his anger that Boston counterpart David Newton has been ungracious enough to disagree with Fenty's 'derisory' (hah!) valuation of young Mr Pearson. And despite Fenty only riding rough-shod over Boston and nicking their managers, Mr Newton has had the audacity not to return his call, preferring to put things in writing in dealings between the two clubs this time.
Some people have no manners or decency, eh? No, I mean you Mr Fenty. Just stop embarrassing everyone with your bully-boy Tory antics. It's not big, it's not hard and it's definitely not clever. David Newton has saved Boston when they were almost out for the count, has acted decently at all times and is a proper gentleman with real manners. Instead of trying to 'do one over on him every five minutes', take a leaf out of his book, won't you? It is possible to be both a businessman and a gentleman, you know. And stop spouting twaddle like this: "At the moment we can't meet minds but we have left the door open." Oh God, I give up. See yer.