City out of one cup and immediately eying another.

Well it makes a change from criticising our own players, the Imps brushed aside Carlisle and we all had an enjoyable evening in front of the TV to see who we got in the third round. It wasn’t Manchester City or Chelsea but pretty much the next best thing, Everton. We now know it’s a Saturday too and eagerly await Everton’s decision as to how many tickets we are allocated. However many it is, we’ll sell them.

Before that, Saturdays game came as a welcome distraction from the petty sniping that had gone on the preceding week and with it a bit of a love in actually as Matts Green and Rhead took to the field from the start and both performed well and were generously received by the decent crowd of 6500. So were John Akinde and Shay McCartan when they replaced them, not that it should be a surprise but after the silly week we had you do start to wonder where some peoples loyalties lie. Maybe the keyboard snipers were not supporters at all, either way it was another very good effort from the home support and they were rewarded with, for me, a very entertaining spectacle.

Everton, like those opponents the year before last seem to conduct themselves admirably, according City equal status with themselves which does them great credit. They can’t be expected to know what sort of support City command on the road but seem happy to accept our word as reliable. It makes a nice change from some of the nonsense we get from our rivals at our level who seem to think they have to build themselves up to counteract what they assume to be their fate at the Imps hand with their holier than thou “they have their way of playing, we have ours" bleatings. Well, all I can say is most of them end up sat on their backsides and they can claim the moral ground as much as they like, it doesn’t do most of them much good.

One things for sure though, City are going to have to replicate the endeavour they showed against Carlisle United and go up a gear again if they are to prevail. They’re capable of it and there can be no slipping up now that Christmas is round the corner if they are to succeed with their aim of League One football next season.

The support, once again is there with Imps followers snapping up all the tickets for Stevenage but there never was much doubt that that would happen and it remains to be seen if the Imps can send them home happy.