Lincoln City
Football League bloggers round-up #1 - January 14th 2011
Every fortnight during 2011, The Seventy Two will round up the best football writing about clubs in the Championship, League One and League Two on other blogs across the world wide web. The first of these regular round-ups features posts from Magic Spongers, A United View, The Real FA Cup, European Football Weekends and The Two Unfortunates.
The aim with future round-ups will be to feature more club-specific blogs so …
An afternoon in with Jeff
A man sits at a desk. Dominating that desk, paper. Surrounding his feet, scrunched up paper. He clutches the hair behind each temple and slowly twists it to form a tricorne. If he smoked, he’d be doing so in a furiously repetitive manner. If he drank, he would be necking back whisky. Whisky and coffee. Whisky, coffee, cigarettes and writer’s block.
Time passes and the twelfth hour strikes. Inspiration came …
Old school the way forward for Imps
In the first of an as-it-happens series looking at the circumstances of changes at managerial level this season, Mike Holden ponders the best route to League Two survival - and beyond - for Lincoln.
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Right from day one, you couldn’t escape the impression that this was a marriage of convenience rather than heavenly match for all the right reasons, so it comes as no surprise to learn that Chris …
Iron and Imps hope to exert the Lincs effect
Three years ago, Lincolnshire boasted four Football League representatives. Following Grimsby Town’s relegation from League Two in May, that number is now just two. Boston United were first to fall back in 2007 and the Pilgrims have since endured a turbulent period, including two enforced demotions for financial reasons.
However, Boston celebrated promotion back to the Blue Square North this summer and Grimsby now sit just a division above them. …