Really don't know whether I have the will to carry on following the Imps at the moment. After last night I do wonder whether we're all wasting our time but we've got a new man in charge and he seems very determined. There haven't been many highs over the years but many many lows of which getting kicked out of the FA Cup before it had even begun has to be the nadir. I tried to make light of it but depression took over in my take of the game.
City down and definitely out.
In a new low to Lincoln City’s desperate FA Cup record the club crashed out of the annual competition before it had properly begun, to an Alfreton Town team who thoroughly deserved to go through to meet Carlisle United in the first round proper.
Manager David Holdsworth must be mightily pleased he only has to suffer this pantomime until the season ends but will have seen for himself the enormity of the task ahead if he is to save the club from a second relegation. You do wonder how far this unhappy club will have to sink before signs of a heartbeat are heard again.
Yesterday your correspondent suggested that the decision to close the Stacey West Stand was a mistake and this provoked a furious debate and no, this writer is not a Stacey Wester by the way but who can say whatever was saved by not allowing fans behind the goal was good value compared to the loss of the game. Obviously it can not be argued that having no supporters in the stand caused the team to lose but it wouldn’t have done any harm to have a few of our more raucous element a few feet from the Alfreton keeper to remind him he was not in the peaceful environs of the Impact Arena. What does a gateman get paid by the way? Not the £12500 now lost to the club, not to mention the subsequent share of the gate for a game against a League One outfit.
City, in case you were fortunate enough not to witness it, were undone by a woefully inadequate header from Adam Watts, aided and abetted by a young goalkeeper rooted to the spot, the poor lad having to pick the ball out of the net from a penalty for the second time in a couple of days, he was lucky to see only yellow for his troubles, but there were plenty of opportunities for City to be over the horizon before this having taken the lead from a really crisp header from Sam Smith from Gavin McCallums equally fine cross. Having said that City’s goal came after a long period of Alfreton possession and they went on to dominate the game.
Holdsworth had to hear his first home game end to a chorus of boos, his honeymoon over as quickly as the Imps cup run. Who knows where this will all end? On last nights evidence it could be in tears. Again.
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