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Sunday, 12 September 2021

City dismantle Cambridge United. Not surprised were you?

 

If the powers that be had the same mindset as, say Germany, the A15 from the Humber Bridge to Peterborough would be either a motorway or at least a dual carriageway, and the A1 through the county would be the A1(M).

As it is, as evidenced by the recent traffic mayhem in the city the government regards Lincoln, insofar as it has any idea we exist at all, as a small town in the countryside so the journey to Cambridge, instead of a short hop down the Eastern side of the land becomes something of a trek but nevertheless that didn’t deter a four figure number climbing aboard our tractors, combine harvesters and rotavators to the lovely city of Cambridge where our heroes threw off their early season torpor and proceeded to rough up the locals to the tune of five-one with, it has to be said a fair degree of panache.

Where did that come from I hear you say or maybe you didn’t as the signs have been there for all to see or rather all to hear because the big Apple has been telling us that the team would come good round about now.

Which does rather make the angst and despondency somewhat misplaced. As recently as a couple of weeks ago I was asked by a friend if I thought the Imps would avoid relegation this season. I can honestly say that notion never entered my head.

In fact all the signs that City were getting their act together was in evidence at the Papa Johns game which I know some of you don’t attend but we did and were treated to quite a display albeit featuring the sort of defensive lapse which suggested that the Imps hadn’t quite turned the corner but there was a hint at least that point wasn’t too far away.

So are we about to enter the autumn with something like a head of steam? Well we’ll soon find out but at least in the meantime those that were at Cambridge, and that didn’t include me, were treated to what I have heard was possibly City’s best away performance ever. All I can say is if it was better than MK Dons just before securing promotion from League Two it will have been some spectacle. The bits I did see, the goals basically, meant Tuesdays visit of Rotherham can’t come soon enough and lets hope City continue in the same vein.

Hopefully then club will be able to field stronger line ups from now on, not that the teams put out were weak particularly but City have struggled for consistency hitherto and disappointed us to a certain extent but we can’t say we weren’t warned that this was going to be the case because we were.

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