Where are they now... Ryan Amoo

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 success for Amoo and he subsequently signed a one year contract.

The 2006/2007 season saw Amoo make 35 league starts. His moment in the spotlight undoubtably came in the clash with Peterborough United at London Road where two Amoo goals saw the Imps win by two goals to one and maintain their challenge at the top of League Two. Ex Imps Simon Yeo and Peter Gain combined to score the only goal for the Posh.

However, although Amoo was considered to be one of the best crossers of the ball at the club fans were constantly on his back claiming he was not good enough. At the start of the 2007/2008 season Schofield even started playing Amoo at right back and he really looked like a fish out of water. Come October 2007 when Schofield and Deehan were eventually relieved of their duties and were replaced by Peter Jackson as manager, Amoo never really had much of a look in anymore and was eventually released from his contract by mutual consent at the end of the 2007/2008 season. His last game for Lincoln City came against Bury in January of 2008.

Before joining Lincoln City, Amoo was involved in a six month relationship with Jade Goody.

In total, Ryan Amoo made 52 appearances for the Imps, 11 as substitute, scoring 3 goals.

So where is he now?

Ryan Amoo can now be found putting on the shirt for Midland Alliance league team Barwell in front of crowds of less than 100. It is a far cry from his glory days with Lincoln City...

13 months of suffering

by Cathedral Imp

I 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 at Swindon Town put us top of League 2 we could have been forgiven for thinking that years of stagnating in the Football League's basement division were finally going to be behind us. However, we didn't manage to score more than two league goals in a game for the rest of the season and a 4-1 home thrashing by Hereford United was the start of many poor results. This season has seen us concede 4 or more goals on 9 separate occasions. In October we changed our manager, getting rid of John Schofield and bringing in a man with experience at this level in Peter Jackson. His immediate aim was to save the Imps from relegation. That appears to have been successful now.

However, Peter's biggest battle is currently away from football when about 6 weeks ago he was diagnosed with throat cancer. Obviously my best wishes are with him for a full and speedy recovery. Temporarily in charge of the Imps now is Iffy Onuora and since being in charge he has overseen six games, three of these being heavy thrashings.

So is it the player's fault or the manager's? Certainly Peter managed to get the best out of the players before leaving for his cancer treatment, as we went on a great run of results, getting seven wins in nine games. Let's hope that on Peter's return he can get the lads to return to winning ways and hopefully mount a reasonable charge for promotion next season.