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Diary - Tuesday 19 June 2012

19 June 2012

Phil Jevons may have gone into Hydeing, but Daryl Clare is down in the Louth. The former Town forward, who scored a lot of goals for all the other clubs he played for, has been installed as manager at Louth Town, our ickle neighbours just down the A16. Clare, of course, has just five years to take the club from the Northern Counties East League to the Football League, which may not even be physically possible. "Louth Chairman Eddie Clarke, was delighted to bring Clare to the club," observes the Grimsby Telegraph, stripped of sub-editors and thus misplacing both an initial capital letter and a comma within just a few pixels. Clare is 33 now, by the way. Did we think he was older than that or younger? Some people you can't imagine ever getting older. Like John Oster, or Chesney off of Corrie.

Remaining in the depths of Lincolnshire non-League, as your original/regular Diary has little option but to do, Grimsby Town are to play a friendly against Grimsby Borough. Well, I say Grimsby Town - it looks like it'll be one of those 'Grimsby Town XI' friendlies, where Vuh Yoof have to play because the first team are losing 3-0 at Doncaster the next day. I can't check to make sure because nobody seems to have thought to list all the Mariners' pre-season friendlies on one single, convenient web page. Guess we'll have to do it ourselves, as per!

C'mon England.