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Diary - Wednesday 4 April 2012

4 April 2012

I don't strictly believe in hoodoos, voodoos or anything beyond our control or understanding, and choose instead to believe that shit just happens. So for your West Yorkshire Diary to suggest that the wheels came off Town's play-off push because Shorty and Shouty won the Conference's Manager(s) of the Month award for January would be a tad hypocritical.

This month's accolade goes to Fleetwood's Micky Mellon, but I'd like to take a guess that the supernatural baggage that supposedly comes with winning the award won't derail the Cod Army's surge to the league title while accruing well over a hundred points.

Meanwhile, meandering in mid-table after a marathon March, are the mighty Mariners. We had a go. In October the season threatened to be a write-off. But we dug deep and gave ourselves an outside chance of a one-in-four chance of returning to the Football League. Our undoing, clearly, has been opposition that are just better than us. Of course, there's no disgrace in that. It's a bit of a kick in the balls to keep losing vital games in injury time though (old habits die hard, eh?) but hey ho, life goes on. It's only a game, and all that.

Not since the days of Steve Mildenhall have the Town fans had a keeper they find hard to berate. James McKeown, our current number one, has had a good season between the sticks and has told the Telegraph that he's pleased with his progress. At just 22 years old, Jamie Mac has a bright future ahead of him - especially if he's keeping out a goalkeeper 11 years his senior. You'd think the atmosphere between McKeown and Kenny 'KA Goalkeeping' Arthur would be frosty, but you'd be wrong. They have Hyacinth Bucket-style candlelit dinners together and everything.

It's a bit of an odd Wednesday in that it's the first time in a while that there hasn't been a Tuesday night match. So, with no report and no petulant retorts from Rob fackin' Scott - and it being a particularly slow news day - I hope you don't mind if I scarper. Just a quick line to remind people that England's under-19 women will be taking on their Austrian counterparts at Blundell Park tomorrow in a 2pm kick-off (admission £3), and that there's still a chance to play in the Major Stakeholder's Challenge match if you don't mind being the Kiernan Hughes-Mason of the team (but they're still looking for two keepers). Toodles!