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The most interesting thing in today's Telegraph is that Jim Broadbent is from Market Rasen

5 August 2014

"There is not time and then spare time. There is only time"

With these wise words in mind, aware of how precious a lunchtime can be, let Middle-Aged Diary keep things brief.

Scunthorpe defender Andrew Boyce is back at Blundell Park, on a month's loan. There is little in his interview for the Telegraph to justify the headline implying a longer deal may appeal to Boyce, but you know that without reading it. You have been reading local newspaper headlines long enough.

The interview does demonstrate that Scott Neilson and Alex Rodman rush in where Boyce fears to tread. "I'm not going to lie, my initial hope was to break into the Scunthorpe side this season, but it hasn't worked out like that so I'm more than happy to be coming back to Grimsby." he says. Try drumming up a controversy on Twitter about that bit of tomorrow's chip wrapping.

Do you need me to tell you that tonight Town travel to Brigg for their last pre-season friendly, the match kicking off at 7.00? Consider yourself told. Do you want me to tell you about our latest quiz, which we sneaked out while no one was looking on Sunday? That's good, because I'm going to tell you anyway.

It is now 46 days since England were eliminated from the World Cup. It is probably 43 days since you last read an article discussing the need to reform funding and improve coaching in this country to generate more home-grown talent. But that's OK. The "most exciting league in the world" starts up again the week after next.