Matchday at the Bank is a wonderful thing for Lincoln City supporters, and in many ways, it never changes.
You can meet your mates on the High Street, albeit in a decreasing number of pubs. You’ll moan about team selection, discuss the last match, and still cheer goals and shout at the referee.
However, matchdays have changed, certainly over my 40 years watching the club. This article looks at 12 things you just don’t see at Sincil Bank anymore, which used to be a staple of the experience.
As it’s a nostalgia piece, I haven’t included some of the things I know we don’t see for the better, such as open racism, smoking in the stands and toilets an inch deep in urine. Some things are best left back in the eighties.
(Please note – this article contains three AI images)
1. Deciding to go on the day
I like knowing where I’m going to sit at Sincil Bank, but there was something lovely about getting up on a Saturday morning and asking, ‘Shall we go and watch Lincoln today?’ You could wander down, pay cash at the gate and stand wherever you liked. Wherever you liked, of course, usually meant precisely the same spot you’d stood in the week before.
Mine was at the wall at the Railway End, just to the goalkeeper’s right, where I could rest my chin on the top. I remember Dad getting rained off work one Saturday, so we decided we’d go and get soaked watching Lincoln instead. We got there and somebody was in my spot. I had to stand further along the wall, which, to a kid who’d already decided that particular bit of concrete was his, was an outrage.
Today, at home at least, your seat is secure, as long as you bought it in February, or at the very least, three weeks before kick-off.
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