Lincoln City see red as they brush aside Bantams.

 

I was thinking about the teams City have played and beaten this season, Crewe, Scunthorpe, Oxford and Bradford. They’ve all spent quite a bit of time above us in the football pyramid, now things have evened out.

 

I used to look at some clubs North Ferriby, Rushden and Diamonds being two examples and wonder, why do people put money into these sort of clubs to hoist them up to a position they could never reach themselves when they could invest in a club down on its luck that could nevertheless give a lot more bang for the investors buck once they got going. Can you see where I’m going with this?

 

Oxford are a perhaps more extreme example that you need quite a good memory to recall but they made it all the way to the top division on the back of the interest of a very dodgy character called Robert Maxwell who may well have gone to prison had he not jumped off the back of his luxury yacht one dark night. Once he went Oxford commenced the painful descent all the way down and out of the league. I saw them play Arsenal at their dilapidated Manor Ground, sloping pitch and all. They moved to a sparkling new stadium in anticipation of a bright new future and that move coincided with their demise, relatively speaking.

 

I’m probably going on a bit too much here but, as we all know City did eventually find an, in many ways strange benefactor but probably no more strange than some clubs you could mention currently balanced on the top of unlikely tidal waves of cash provided by over ambitious chairmen.

 

Enough, I hear you say. When I submitted my work to an editor he’d have said where on earth is this going I’d imagine and where we are headed is to make the probably inevitable point that City did find a benefactor, did provide a lot of bang for Clive’s buck and, this being Lincoln City all is not entirely rosy in that after this marvellous start, drawing certainly the biggest side in England at the moment, one of the biggest in Europe, not that we’d have seen that many of the superstars, in fact we won’t be seeing any of them, not in the flesh we won’t.

 

Oh the irony of it. We’ve pitted ourselves against few of the top sides over the years and certainly not one of Liverpool’s standing and we will be sat at home.

 

Another thing my editor didn’t like me doing is changing the subject in the middle of an article but I’m going to in order to make the point that, since the Cowleys departure City have adopted a totally different business plan, one that I really wanted to believe in but wasn’t sure I did. Last season saw the departure of, for us, some really big names, Shacks, Eard’s, Bozzie, Freck. Could our kids step into their shoes? After all, you don’t win anything with kids. Well, so far so good.