5 of the best for Lincoln City

Friday night gave Lincoln City their first win since the end of October and since Peter Jackson won the Manager of the Month award for October.

The Imps ran out 5-1 victors having been trailing 1-0 at halftime. Jackson made all three of his substitutions at half time, taking off David Graham, Lennel John-Lewis and Stefan Oakes. Jackson also changed the formation from the ineffective 4-3-3 to a more conventional 4-4-2. The lads must've had one almighty kick up the backside at halftime as they tried to make amends for a truly shocking first half display. All the substitutes had a hand in the goals. Adrian Petulea scored two, Ben Wright scored one and the energetic Sam Mullarkey had a had in a couple of the goals. Aaron Brown and Lee Frecklington scored City's other goals.

The result was an amazing turnaround from a team that has struggled to find the back of the net just lately. Lincoln had scored just one in their previous five league games.

Chesterfield 1 Lincoln City 5, April 1992.

You need to go back 16 and a half years in order to find the last time when Lincoln City completed such a significant turnaround from losing at halftime. Trailing 1-0 at Saltergate, City hit back in the second half through Tony Lormor, Sean Dunphy, David Puttnam, Matt Carmichael and Jason Kabia. This result was in the middle of a run that saw City win their last 7 league games of the season and also finish the season with just one defeat in their last 17 league games. We still only managed to finish in 10th place that season.

The 7 game winning running consisted of the following results:
A Scunthorpe 2-0
H Carlisle Utd 1-0
H Maidstone Utd 1-0
A Chesterfield 5-1
H Hereford Utd 3-0
A Halifax Town 4-1
H Blackpool 2-0

Our twice former manager Keith Alexander scored in the 4-1 win at Halifax and we managed to stop Blackpool from gaining promotion by beating them on the last day of the season with two Matt Carmichael penalties.

The 1991-92 season was also of particular sad note for Aldershot FC fans as this was to prove their final season in the Football League as they folded due to serious financial problems. Aldershot Town have since been reborn and still play at the Recreation Ground where Aldershot used to play. Lincoln City were to play the last Football League game at Aldershot on 14th March, 1992 in which City won 3-0. All Aldershot's records for this season were expunged.

Lincoln City's next match is away to local rivals Notts County on the 20th December.