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Everybody's dying but I'm still alive

6 February 2014

Right, let's get through this. I'm supposed to be on strike.

Today your original/regular Diary has found another of those 'person x offers opinion y' stories which aren't really stories because person x would never offer the opposite of opinion y in a million years. The Southport manager John 'Accrington Stanley' Coleman says his team, who travel to Blundell Park this weekend, won't be afraid of playing the Mariners! If you ever find an interview in which a football manager says his team can't sleep at night because they're approaching their next match with such paralytic, pant-staining terror, get back to me. Otherwise let's move on.

There's also a thing about Fentydome II (as we surely need to start calling the Peakes Parkway distraction). Apparently it can't be built on the site of Western School. When I say "apparently", I mean "John Shelton Fenty says". Now it wasn't so long ago that apparently the club, in trying to find a place for a new stadium, had scoured North East Lincolnshire to within a nasal vowel of its life, and the only suitable place was Great Coates. Funny how that turned out to be untrue, wasn't it? Pinch of salt? No, I'll take a handful, thanks.

And finally today, if you're as fed up as I am about this fixture congestion kerfuffle, here's a summary. The man from the Conference says they can't end the season later because Wembley. He doesn't say why they can't start it earlier or use a more suitable stadium for the play-off final instead. Town fans are allowed to be rude when they talk to the man from the Conference on Twitter, but he's not allowed to be rude back. Clear? Good.

That's about it then. I think we've got all the rearranged fixtures on the fixture page, but if you wouldn't mind just having a look to check, that'd be lovely. Thanks. See ya!