3: John Pickering 0.75 PPG
Taking over from a club legend cannot be easy, and Lincoln City in 1985/86 was not a great place to be. Sadly, just months after the Bradford Fire, the club’s focus was not on the playing squad, and that proved to be the downfall of Pickering and of Lincoln. Pickering had been Colin Murphy’s assistant since 1981 and had worked with some great Lincoln players, but he couldn’t make the step up to management.
He recruited Bob Latchford, hoping for goals, but didn’t get many. The team didn’t play too badly in the early stages of the season, reaching sixth in October, but plummeted badly after that. Three defeats in cup competitions help to push Pickering above Daniel and Clarke, with the former not playing a cup match and the latter getting one of his three wins in the cup.
Pickering oversaw a 7-0 defeat at Derb,y and when Cardiff, later relegated with us, beat us 4-0, his time was up. 10 defeats in 11 matches meant he lost 14 of his 24 in charge.
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