Getting nervous? Don’t, just look at the league table.

On the face of it, Lincoln City dropped points against an unlikely opponent yesterday at Sincil Bank. I don’t know why any of us were surprised. Macclesfield are battling for their league lives. Despite dropping to the foot of the table, they probably enjoyed their day at the summit as City, not for the first time found themselves scrabbling for a point against a side revelling in their discomfort.

It didn’t look as if the Imps were in for any kind of frustration at the start as they quickly clicked into gear moving the ball about like, well like champions. City looked like taking the lead any moment only to find a goalkeeper in inspired form pulling off two magnificent saves to deny the Imps the lead. It was no standard league two stopper keeping the Imps at bay though. Kieran O’Hara is a name I think we’ll see in the future, not necessarily for his present club Manchester United but I’m sure that’s not the last we’ll hear of him.

Of course, there’s the enigma of football at league two level. We may think of Macclesfield as a footballing backwater but with Manchester and Liverpool just down the road, to name but two football hotspots, there’s no shortage of players looking to get out from the premierships massive rosters to get some game time.

Anyway, back to business and, despite another bump in the road our heroes now find themselves within a hairsbreadth of league one football next season. As I commented before, whilst City would be happy for the season to end tomorrow the others need ten, maybe fifteen games to haul City in. There are just six games left, seven for Bury. What of Bury I hear you ask? Well, their previous inexorable rise was stopped in their tracks yesterday. The new dark horses coming up on the rails are Tranmere but they are thirteen points behind the Imps who continue to amass points at an average of two per game. As we all know, points mean prizes and I don’t mean second or third.

City have a tough run in, that’s for sure but included in the remaining games are MK Dons, next up away, and Tranmere, at home. The beauty of City’s present position is that a draw against either of those opponents effectively delivers a knock out blow and as we know whilst City don’t always win they rarely lose so strap in, it’s going to be exciting.

It’s not often we have a genuine superstar in the away dugout at Sincil Bank so how did Sol Campbell do, has he got what it takes to be a manager? On this evidence very much so I’d say. Of course he couldn’t have started from a less advantaged position at Macc and may not be able to save their league lives but he was animated and enthusiastic, identified one of City’s main goal threats, which is more than some of our own supporters can, and put the shackles on him. Oh and, as the ladies in our party repeatedly reminded me he’s dapper. Very dapper. Note to self. Well tailored jacket, pressed trousers and polished shoes. Not that difficult is it, why don’t I look like that?

See you all at Milton Keynes.