Joe Allon
How many times will I write about Super / Goofy Joe Allon?
It’s one of my overriding memories as an Imps’ fan. When Joe Allon signed, it felt to some fans like Christmas had arrived early, think Lincoln suddenly picking up Alfie May. The difference was that Allon had played for Chelsea in the top flight.
The opening home game of the season, we were out in force, the fans behind the goal proclaiming him to be ‘Super, Super Joe, Super, Super Joe…’
He played five times for City, once as a sub. He never looked like scoring.
On November 1st, he scored at Sincil Bank, earning his new side, Hartlepool, a 1-1 draw. To make matters worse, he bagged twice as they beat us 3-0 in the reverse fixture at the end of the season.
You can’t leave out TT in 1983. The Newport game in a prolonged torrent of rain, me and my old man leaving at half time, (the first and last time) I ever left a game early. I was only thirteen and had no choice! The wheels had come off Murph’s first mission and TT had come back to haunt us! The team and squad disembarked soon afterwards going on to play at higher levels. Your dad could have populated a half a page on this after you had removed the swear words from the whole page.
No Kevin Ellison?
I was at Telford when Perry came on as sub and scored twice, having been happily chatting with all and sundry during the HT ‘warm up’. Nice bloke, in a band, I thought he was the bees knees, a key component as Tilson returned the Imps to their rightful place in the EFL.
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