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Diary - Thursday 2 June 2011

2 June 2011

Is there an end of season any more? The last time Grimsby played was over a month ago and it's been football ever since. We've had play-offs, cup finals and now it's England matches Â- does it ever end? Well, there's not a Grimsby game until 16 July so I suppose that provides some relief. Then they'll be cracking on with the friendlies, and it's a good job it's over a month away because I don't think we've got a starting eleven at the moment. Although that must be due to change with the introduction of the shiny Scout 7 digital scouting tool thing which is in no way similar to any football management simulation game.

Your Part-Time Diary has had a quick look at the Scout 7 website and it does seem to boast a rather illustrious list of clientele. They seem to be very proud of their links to Chelsea and Manchester City, although these are the two English clubs I would least associate with a prudent and efficient approach to scouting out new talent. In fact their scouting policy is more akin to someone cheating on a football management simulation game and hoovering up all the most expensive players in the world. The site Â- apart from including a brilliantly inadvertent guess the badge game Â- does not really provide much information other than what can already be guessed about the services of Scout 7. It does just seem to be a great big database with loads of stats and injury history on footballers. It's even got some youngsters marked as 'wonderkid' just to help out less experienced managers. I wonder if there is a manager version that Fenty can sign up to and if Abramovich's Chelsea is already a subscriber to that as well. Well worth a look, John.

Grimsby Town's superb new official website has yet again come up trumps, fixing the glitch that delayed the announcement of the Sheffield FC friendly in record time, having been alerted to it only yesterday by original/regular Diary. Unfortunately the Grimsby Telegraph has yet to follow suit, but surely now it will come to their attention too, with it being a mere mouse click and Google search for Grimsby Town away. I'd expect an announcement tomorrow, unless of course any former Grimsby players happen to not sign for another club or something big like that.

Well, I'm not about to emulate the local rag and string this out any longer. In other news today FIFA is still corrupt, Blatter is still the boss of football and Grimsby still haven't sold any season tickets. Finally, a thought for the day from Sepp Natter: "All teams whose players' ages add up to an odd number should start a new league under the sea in the corridors of the White House." Thanks as always, Sepp.