1: Con Moulson 0 PPG
Anyone who has perused the articles Malcolm Johnson writes for the site will have read about Cornelius Moulson, an Eire international who made 88 pre-war appearances for the club. As a player, he served diligently, but his record as a manager was embarrassing to say the least. Malcom, who puts it far more eloquently than I, says:
“City now embarked upon one of the lowest points in their history. The Directors, with their team selecting having put City into a worse position than when they began decided now to turn to a professional. Con Moulson had been amongst City’s greatest-ever players, winning 3 international caps for Eire in the 1930s but now aged 58 he had been out of the game for over 20 years and was working as a machinist at Ruston & Hornsby.
Moulson’s first game in charge failed to stop the rot, with a 2-0 home defeat to next-to-bottom Bradford City.
Maurice Burton was particularly scathing as Moulson had declared the team would adopt a 3-3-4 formation but according to MB, this “…rapidly became something of the order of 7-3-0 as Bradford City took command”, describing it as “one of the poorest exhibitions put on by a Lincoln side for many years”. Moulson declared: “some players did not do as I told them. I have a lethargically-minded team, and this is my urgent problem”, going on to say he would be a hard taskmaster in training.”
This went on for eight matches, none of which brought a win. Nor a draw. The club did tempt Roy Chapman back to the fold though, a coup at the time, and he went on to replace the beleaguered Moulson, only to also find himself on this list 55 years later.
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