Lee Thorpe
If you’re a City fan of a certain vintage, you have to admire Lee Thorpe. He seemed to win our leading scorer award every season for a while, but struggled to impress in a series of ever-increasingly bad Lincoln sides.
He scored 66 times in over 220 outings for the Imps, an impressive tally given the fact he often ploughed a lone furrow up front. he was a typical lower league striker, robust and aggressive but never one to shirk his responsibility.
Not only did Thorpe do well scoring goals for City, but he also enjoyed scoring against us. He netted against the Imps whilst playing for Leyton Orient, Bristol Rovers and Darlington.
It was his goal that prompted the sacking of Peter Jackson in September 2009, so even seven years after leaving the club he was still doing us a service.
Not only that, he was also booked against us playing for Rochdale and Torquay and miraculously faced us three times in 2004/05 (twice with Bristol Rovers, once with Swansea) and didn’t score or get booked in all three matches.
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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