Memory Match – City Put Five Past Reading
1984/85 is not a season that Lincoln City fans remember with much fondness. It was a season of transition when Colin Murphy’s team of the […]
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Memory Match: Notts County League Cup Clash 1981
City have drawn Notts County in the League Cup for only the third time in our history. The second time we played them was in […]
Looking Back At: 1980/81 (Final Part)
It’s been a mammoth journey of around 20,000 words, but finally, our deep dive on the 1980/81 season is complete. Malcolm Johnson has put a […]
Looking Back At: 1980/81 (Part 5)
Part One: pre-season and August Part Two: September and October Part Three – November and December Part Four – January and February March The Tuesday […]
Looking Back At: 1980/81 (Part 4)
Part One: pre-season and August Part Two: September and October Part Three – November and December January The first Saturday of the year’s scheduled visit […]
Looking Back At: 1980/81 (Part 3)
Part One: pre-season and August Part Two: September and October November Although unable to get to midweek home games at Sincil Bank I continued to […]
Looking Back At: 1980/81 (Part 2)
Part One: pre-season and August September The visit to Swindon for the second leg of the League Cup tie now took place with the home […]
Looking Back At: 1980/81 (Part 1)
In their first season back in Division Four after three years in the third tier Lincoln City in manager Colin Murphy’s first full season as […]
Memory Match: Imps 3-2 Port Vale 1984
As we welcome Port Vale to the Bank this weekend, I thought I’d do another memory match, this time from 1984. There are periods in […]
The Week That Was: March 1986
37 years ago, Lincoln City suffered relegation from what was then the Third Division. It’s a season few remember fondly, one that started with former […]
34 Years and Nothing Has Changed
When I get a spare moment, as I sometimes do on a Sunday around 4 pm, I browse through some old newspapers and see what […]
The Week That Was: May 1982
I’ve come to write this in a rather roundabout way, but I think it’s a story worth telling, more in terms of what I will […]
On This Day: Imps Linked With First Division Striker
I’ve fallen down a wormhole. Now I have access to the British Newspaper Archive; I literally cannot stop perusing old newspapers. There are huge gaps […]
The Week That Was: 1985 – Latchford Under Fire, Manager Under Pressure
The first ‘week that was’ article went down well, so today, I’m going to try another, going back to my birthday week in 1985. There’s […]
Looking Back At: Imps v Wycombe 1988
It seems fitting that we’ve come to the Wycombe game as I’ve come to the end of the newspaper reports I was able to obtain […]
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