tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14754078197895751622011-11-27T23:46:49.101ZA blog about life in the lower divisions of the Football League in England, written by a Lincoln City fan.Jonny Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635080498040513100noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475407819789575162.post-29713534505199185492011-08-07T17:51:00.006+01:002011-08-07T19:47:44.567+01:00

I've been a fan of Lincoln City since attending my first match at home to Cardiff City back in 1985. We lost 4-0 and I was instantly hooked! Here is a list of my favourite Imps matches over the years I have been supporting them! Lincoln 5 - 3 Scunthorpe UnitedLeague 2 play-off semi-final, 1st leg, 10th May, 2003An amazing match in which Imps raced into a 3-1 lead but were then pegged back to 3-3

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2002/2003 marked the return of Keith Alexander's second managerial spell at Lincoln City. At the start of the season Lincoln had just come out of administration and had only a handful of players on the books at the club. Alexander worked miracles and put together a team that started out as clear relegation favourites but finished in the play-offs final at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff.The

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Even before the 2002/2003 season began, Lincoln City FC fans were unsure whether they were still going to have a club. Having finished the previous season only just escaping relegation finishing in 22nd place and then going into administration, they were called to a court hearing on 5th August 2002. Fortunately on the eve of the hearing a rescue package was put together and Lincoln continued to

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Lincoln City enjoyed a great start to the 2009/10 campaign by picking up 3 points and a clean sheet against a battling Barnet team at Sincil Bank yesterday.The first half was won by Barnet in terms of chances and some fine saves from Lincoln City's goalkeeper Rob Burch kept the scores goalless at halftime.Peter Jackson's team talk helped inspire the Imps to a one nil victory with the only goal of

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Just where will Lincoln Ciy finish for the 2009/10 season? Here is a small list of some predictions:The Guardian: Mid tableThe BBC: Maybe could reach the play-offsTeam Talk: Won't feature in the movers or shakersSoccer Lens: Not even a mentionTeletext: 13th placeNotts County Mad: 15th positionSo, pretty much written off before the season begins but it's better being the underdog as less is

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Lincoln City has recently become a breeding ground for young talent. A whole crop of talented youngsters are becoming members of the current first team squad. First teamers such as Danny Hone, Nathan Adams, Andrew Hutchinson, Kern Miller, Lenell John-Lewis, Shane Clarke are all products of the Lincoln City Centre of Excellence. Others coming through include Luca Colman-Carr and Graham

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Lincoln City held Hungarian top flight team Ferencváros to a goalless draw at Sincil Bank last night in front of 1,221 fans. It was a useful workout for the Imps who fielded their four summer signings and also a couple of trialists.All four of the new signings, Richard Butcher, Joe Heath (6 month loan), Jamie Clarke and Chris Fagan had steady games. Joe Heath had a great game at left back and has

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Lincoln City's pre-season got under way last week when the squad travelled over to Germany and the plan was to play two fixtures. The first against an army team was called off after the Lincoln City management thought the pitch was a bit on the dangerous side. The second match arranged was against lower league German team TuS Celle FC. Although the Imps lost 1-0 it was a solid workout for them

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The 1987/88 season was the season I became a regular at Sincil Bank. I had become hooked and needed my regular fix. I only attended home games as dad didn't go to away games and I wasn't old enough to go on my own I had to make do with just the home ones. What a season to become addicted to Lincoln City though - we had just become the first team to get relegated out of the Football League, under

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Rumours are rife this morning that Dany N'Guessan is all set to sign for Leicester City, who have won the League 1 Championship this season. It is believed they have offered Dany a 3 year contract andit is thought the deal is set to be finalised as soon as possible.There have been numerous clubs following N'Guessan since January with clubs such as Hull City, Wigan Athletic, West Brom, Sheffield

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Yesterday, May 11th, was the 24th year since the Bradford Fire disaster. A memorial service was held in Bradford, which was held in Centenary Square, Bradford and hosted by Bradford's Lord Mayor. A minute's silence to remember those who died was held at 11am.54 Bradford City and 2 Lincoln City fans tragically died after the fire which started during the Bradford v Lincoln match. It was later

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Lincoln City have released 7 players from their squad with effect from the end of the season. The released (not so magnificent seven) players are Ayden Duffy, Frank Sinclair, Owain Warlow, Gary King, Martin Pembleton, Geoff Horsfield and Ben Wright.The release of these players also comes at the time when the club have announced there will be a reduction in Peter Jackson's player budget for the

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This was a typical David v Goliath encounter. Lincoln City were struggling in 15th place in Division 3 (currently League 2) and Manchester City were in the top ten of the division currently known as the Championship. It was the first leg of the second round of the Coca Cola Cup and I had a ticket for the terrace area of the Stacey West End. As an adult I paid only £8 for my ticket. An absolute

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City’s most internationally capped is Gareth McAuley. Gareth joined Lincoln City in 2004 from Coleraine of Northern Ireland and after a very solid first season for the Imps was called up by Northern Ireland to play a friendly against Germany at Windsor Park on the 4th June 2005. McAuley started the game on the bench but was finally brought on for his international debut in the 70th minute,

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Ryan Amoo joined Lincoln City in the summer of 2006 as one of the first signings under the new management regime of John Schofield and John Deehan. Deehan already knew about Amoo from when they were both at Northampton Town and had obviously seen enough potential in the player to make Lincoln give him a trial, even though he'd been ploughing up the non-league circuit for a year. The trial was a

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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

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At the end of September of this year Lincoln City manager Peter Jackson agreed to an extension of his current managerial contract. The Imps had had an indifferent start to the season and were languishing near the bottom of League Two at the time Jackson was offered the new contract by the Imps board.What was bizarre about this situation was Jacko himself allegedly stated that he'd only sign the

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It has been a good 6 months since I last posted on this blog. However, not wanting to make any excuses I have been extremely busy with work.After a summer involving lots of hype from Lincoln City manager Peter Jackson, the expectations to say the least were quite high for most Lincoln City Fans. During the summer months Jacko had dipped into the transfer market and signed his 'fantastic seven' -

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by Cathedral ImpI have supported the mighty lads in red and white vertical stripes since 1985 when the first match I witnessed was a 4-0 home thrashing by Cardiff City, but never have I known us suffer so many thrashings over the period of 12/13 months as recently. Who am I discussing? Lincoln City, of course. The disinterested reader now clicks on another web page.Last November after a 1-0 win

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by Cathedral ImpSo, it would appear that Fabio Capello has chosen his man. Step forward Rio Ferdinand. Seriously I feel let down by this choice. Here we have a man who is already idolised by his young fans, but who was banned from football for nearly a year for missing a drugs test. Capello has his ideas for what he wants from his captain. Good behaviour off the pitch is one of the conditions for

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