Michael Skubala has suggested we could be looking at the best Lincoln City team ever, after a season of outstanding achievements.
The Imps have been crowned champions of League One with two matches to spare, securing the title by winning at Doncaster Rovers in midweek. They secured promotion as early as Easter Monday and have beaten a club record by going 13 away matches unbeaten.
Direct comparison with the heroes of 1952 or 1976 isn’t possible, as the game is very different, but to achieve what we have in the current landscape is unbelievable, and it isn’t just the fact we’ve won the title, but the amnner in which it has been done.
“I think we could be looking at probably the greatest Lincoln City team ever, this group,” Michael said to BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s Michael Hortin.
“What they’ve done, how they’ve done it, and how we support them, they just keep knocking everything out of the park. We set up challenges, and they go again.
“When you’ve got such an amazing group of players to work with, that pushes you and drives you to keep supporting them and keep giving them the best, whether it’s on the training pitch, psychologically, whatever that needs.
“When you’ve got such a good group, you just want to give them everything so they can go and do it.”
While always coming across as calm and measured in his interviews, Michael admitted the last few weeks have been ‘pressured’ as the club moved closer to the title, given the desire within the coaching staff for the players to have it on their CV.
“In some ways, the last three weeks for myself have been really pressured because I want them to get the title because they deserve it.
“You don’t get everything you want, I said that to them this morning, you get everything you earn. I think we’ve earned it in such a good way. Wednesday was a really nice emotional release.
“The pleasing thing was how well we played in that game. It wasn’t just getting over the line. It wasn’t just scrapping a draw and not playing very well.
“After the promotion, to go Leyton Orient away, Stevenage away where they need points, and then into Doncaster, fifth form in the league over the last ten games, it’s just such a pleasing thing to do it that way.”
There are just two matches left this season, the penultimate game of the campaign this weekend against Wycombe Wanderers, before a trip to relegated Port Vale on the final day of the season. If City avoid defeat in those games, then another record will fall – the longest unbeaten run in League One.
One more win will also see City climb to 100 points, a feat not achieved since the change to a three-point-per-win system in the early eighties.
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