That’s entertainment.

How good was that? It’s early days of course and City will face much sterner tests than that provided by Accrington Stanley but in terms of an opening day win, that’ll do for me.

Apart from the sheer joy of having a now consistently good team to follow, finally after all these years, mainly of torment it’s fascinating to see the gradual progression of the Imps from, appropriately enough for a club from Lincolnshire, purveyors of fairly agricultural football to a considerably more polished product. That we are able to witness this progression is down to our great good fortune in having all our stars in alignment at the moment bringing good quality people into the boardroom, much needed cash in the form of investment and the right people at the football end of the operation who are content, we must say for the moment, to remain with us to see where their talents will take our club. On yesterdays evidence there’s much more to come.

Accrington Stanley were, I was going to say touted but that would be unfair, lets say Stanley have become known for good passing football which is very easy on the eye. City of course have had to deflect the barbs of those clubs and those managers, mentioning no names but we all know who they are, who think they are the true believers and the guardians of footballs soul. Well no one witnessing that performance could accuse City of playing biff bang football, far from it.

The usual progression for one of the lesser lights of the football firmament which of course we are, would be that our management team, after a little success, would be spirited away to ply their trade at a supposedly bigger club, say, for the sake of argument, a Peterborough United or a Doncaster Rovers where in due course they would again be enticed by, I don’t know, a Norwich City or Sheffield Wednesday. That this hasn’t happened is down to the fact that the club is able to match, for the moment, the ambitions of the Cowleys who clearly are more interested in leaving the club in a vastly and hopefully permanently enhanced situation than making a fast buck. All of a sudden those clubs who may think they look down on us, because they have generally been at a higher level and better off must watch as we gradually catch them up and, who knows, may overtake them and then it will be ourselves doing the preening. Hurrah for that.

As to the match I don’t think there was anyone who was less than good. Cian Bolger took my eye as did Bozzy and the new players slotted in as if this was their second season with the Imps rather than the beginning of their tenure with us. There was a real panache about City as they set about getting off to the perfect start. It wasn’t perfect of course but it very much met with my approval.