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Diary - Thursday 7 February 2013

7 February 2013

Deadly John Fenty. Con. Councillor. Major shareholder. Fridge magnate. Crusader for justice. Wherever there is trouble he'll be there. Dangerjohn. He fought the law and the law won. Speeding charges. A teenage fanzine editor. Mike Newell. David Burns of BBC Radio Humberside. Boston United. All at once or one at a time - he doesn't care. He'll take you all. Thought you'd seen the back of Deadly John? Think again. Now he's back. For one more epic battle. Against some grass.

Coming soon, to a council planning subcommittee meeting near you: Deadly John VI: We Will Fight Them On The Beaches.

Right, enough - I can't keep doing that deep gravelly voice any more. Good day, hello, welcome to Thursday's diary, with your original/regular Diary: almost the original diary, and certainly the one that's wasted more of my life on it than any other. Do you like Woking? I don't know - I've never Woked. But Town's increasingly tight fixture schedule has just squeezed in a visit to the Surrey club in the final week of the season - which, preposterously, is in the middle of April this year. GTFC will travel to Princes Park on Tuesday 16 April. Can't quite see there being 497 away fans at that one, but you never know.

More to the point, BBC Radio Humberside has reported that cult antihero Anthony Elding is in talks with Sligo Rovers. The 'wantaway' striker is apparently on the brink of a move to the League of Ireland, bringing to a close his eventful spell in North East Lincolnshire involving a two-division climb loan spell with Preston North End, a bit of fist-pumping against Lincoln, 14 goals, one T-shirt, one Twitter trend and a popularity chart shaped like a bell curve. Town managers Shorty and Shouty are said to be targeting two more strikers when the loan window reopens next week.

And lastly today, in other international news, Andi Thanoj seems to have been brought on at half-time in Albania under-21s' 0-0 draw with Macedonia the other night, and then brought back off again near the end with some sort of injury. Aswad Thomas, meanwhile, experienced the unfamiliar taste of defeat as England C lost 1-0 to their counterparts from Turkey. I might have got some of this wrong because it's getting late and I've been to the pub for lunch. It all got a bit tricky when I heard Elding was signing for the league champions.