Northampton 2-1 Imps 2011
This is another one of those games where we might ask ‘what if’. What if we hadn’t let in a late leveller? Well, we would have drawn the game which would have left us level on points with Barnet at the end of the season. Could it have been a turning point in our battle against the drop? Absolutely. It didn’t end a winning run, nor start a losing one, but it did cost us a vital point. Who knows what might have happened, to be fair relegation was maybe the best thing to happen to us, so it might even be a good thing.
Look away now if you’re easily scared – the Imps team that afternoon was Anyon, Anderson, Watts, Hone, Hoyte, Kerr, O’Keefe, Howell, Facey, Hutchinson and Grimes. Paul Green, Mustafa Carayol and Albert Jarrett came off the bench.
On the field, The Cobblers took the lead when Billy McKay scored after Abdul Osman flicked on a long throw. We did hit back, Josh O’Keefe smashing a 30-yard drive past the keeper in what was probably his finest City moment. Sadly, as the clock wound down, we folded like a freshly washed bedsheet. John Johnson (someone have a word with his parents) found himself in a bit of space and fired in a 25-yard winner with two minutes left. Heartbreak, but not the worst we were to face that season.
“I felt we dominated proceedings but it’s disappointing to concede in the last two minutes,” Tilson said after the game.
“It was a good strike by the lad but I felt we could have cleared our lines better. If we show that passion to the end of the season then we’ll be OK but we have to perform like that week in, week out to climb the table.”
Spoiler – we didn’t.
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