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Diary - Monday 3 October 2011

3 October 2011

Miss Guest Diary writes: I wasn't able to go to the match on Saturday, but I wasn't surprised that Town won - I've missed three home games so far this season and Town have won them all. The score was also less of a shock than it might have been - I have previous in that department too. When we beat Southend 5-1 in 1997 I was at a wedding. For the 5-1 against West Brom the following year I was helping my brother move house. More recently - and much worse - when we beat Boston 6-0 at their ground in 2007 I actually travelled to Boston but gave my ticket to someone else and went shopping. Maybe next time Town are facing tricky opponents I should invite people to sponsor me to do something else.

It's great that all Liam Hearn's hard work is finally paying off. What price Alan Connell now, eh? I read on Twitter (so of course it must be true) that Connell has never scored a hat-trick; now Hearn has gone one better. Why isn't there a special term for scoring four goals in a game? Is it because it doesn't happen very often? I asked Cod Almighty match reporter Tony Butcher - well known for his prodigious memory for footballing facts - if he could think of other Town players who'd scored four. He came back immediately with "Jevons against Barnsley in February 2004", but that was the only one. Can you think of any others?

In other news, GTFC chief executive Ian Fleming has spoken to the Telegraph about Mike Parker's gift offer of 500,000 shares to the Grimsby Town Supporters Trust. The gist of what he said seems to be "so what, we still need loads of money and if the GTST can't provide any, they aren't coming on the board". But maybe I'm just reading that with my cynical head on.

Also in the Grimsby Telegraph, Nicky Law says sorry to the Alfreton fans for a performance he describes as "quite humiliating". Not as humiliating as it was for Town fans when we got relegated at Tranmere in 2004 with Law in charge - we're still waiting for him to apologise for that one. And the board to apologise for appointing him as manager in the first place.

Watching the subscriber-only highlights of Saturday's game on Mariners Player, I was unable to take my eyes off Nathan Jarman's hair. I've never been to Alfreton but it doesn't sound like the sort of place where you'd fit right in with a Balotelli-esque mohican. I'll be able to find out for myself when Town play there in the new year... unless someone would like to sponsor me for a trip to the January sales instead.