Brendan Bradley
Vital Squad Member
Somebody please kill this thread. With fire!
Somebody please kill this thread. With fire!
A long fruitless journey down to Devon, saw The Imps lose by 2 goals (uncanny isn't it) to Exeter in another defeat, this time 1-3 with Stuart Hibberd playing as a makeshift No: 9 in place of the injured Gordon Hobson. We didn't even have enough players to field a substitute, as no doubt Murph felt less inclined to put Stuart Naylor on the bench.
I went to this game. Met Maurice Burton in the pub beforehand - he gave a friend and me complimentary tickets for the game.The 17-year-old Gary Strodder was an unused substitute.
Steve Thompson was also injured, so Gordon Simmonite played alongside Trevor Peake with David Carr at right back.
The 17-year-old Gary Strodder was an unused substitute.
Steve Thompson was also injured, so Gordon Simmonite played alongside Trevor Peake with David Carr at right back.
Is there a right thread for that??
Trust Notty to lower the tone
No comment your honourI notice you haven't denied it.
Going back to the support back in the early eighties finance was one of the biggest reasons for a fall off.
I don't want to use old fashioned clichés but the fact was that the fan mix then was totally different to today. The vast majority of fans were working class not the mix across society they are today. It was the Thatcher years the main employment was engineering factories in Lincoln. Thatchers policies totally decimated the industry in Lincoln.
I know from bitter experience myself , I was made redundant from Bucyrus with a wife and young daughter to feed. There wasn't the aid available then from the state there is now or large redundancy payments to live on. They even threatened to cut my electricity off until my Father god bless him scraped enough together to pay the bill.
Although being a massive imps fan every penny counted and my last thought was going to a match I needed to provide for my family first. I am sure there were plenty more like me.
Bert Bowery played twice as many league games for Lincoln than in the rest of his league career and had a 1 in for 4 goal record for us.
My dad worked at Robeys at the time, a boiler maker. After redundancy, he took a job at Rose Bearings, over Gainsborough way. He also applied for, and got, a job as a prison officer, working at Ranby and then working out a swap with a guy who lived in Retford, to end up at Lincoln nick.
At his interview, one of the interviewers, noting that he wore glasses, asked him about his eyesight. They asked him to remove his glasses and then asked him how many keys the guy was holding in his hands.
"I can see the keys, but can't tell you how many".
"What if an inmate knocks your glasses off?" Asked the interviewer..
"He wouldn't get that far" says my dad.
He got the job.
You could take him out of St Giles, but you couldn't take St Giles out of him...