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Diary - Monday 28 November 2011

28 November 2011

This is Monday. This is a shocked and stunned Deviant Diary.

Hail the brave and fearless shock troops of Shouty and Shorty! Hail to the chiefs, the visionaries in the Boredroom. Hail to the chiefs, we salute them one and all! Plucky underdogs Gribsmy Town overcame plagues of locusts and the tortures of the damned on Saturday at Rockingham Road, Kettering (SNOS sic). Those at Nene Park, Irthlingborough (reality sick) saw Town agonisingly fail to avoid victory courtesy of one of the great misses from one of the great names in football - Nathan Koo-Boothe from just an English yard.

As befits a club in crisis ©, Ketamine Kettering had a rubbish Aldi in goal, and would have signed Gary Liddle from that Hartlepools if they weren't under a transfer embargo. I say rubbish, but that's only gleaned from the twitterati and SNOS highlights, and who can really believe in them? After a decade of scholarly Fentydom, the inhabitants of Deviant Towers have finally graduated with a CBA in Townomics and just couldn't be bothered to go into the murky miasma of the midlands to have their minds numbed by Mariners. Disssociated anaesthesia, that's where we were. And the local Asda, which is the same thing in supermarket form.

If you want to know what the sneery one thinks about it all, click here. If you want to read a potted pottytime version, click here. Or you could just make it up yourself, which would be far more entertaining.

Elsewhere the fast shrinking local rag-tag 'news'paper, the Grimsby Telegraph, continues its obsession with forgotten and forgettable two-minute two-bit Mariners. It still doesn't address the big question in our lives: Damian Spencer - why? Bizarrely, the raggiest local rag doesn't keep tabs on our present forgotten sons. Alfreton, in a titanic battle with Gainsborough Trinity to be the Grimsby Old Boys' Club Scout Hut du jour, are quietly hoarding some of our fluff and dandruff and had a whale of a time on Saturday with a Church penalty miss and hilarious Fergietime overload.

For those with an eye for the future, Town's future rejects continue their obsessive stalking of Walsall in the Midland Future Rejects Cup tonight. Walsall have a well-regarded future rejects' coach, by the way, and they call them youth team players, which is forward-thinking and progressive.

And finally they've released the state secret: Town have drawn Darlington at home in the FA Trophy. A plum draw indeed. The champagne corks are popping all over Europe.