bristolimp
Vital Champions League
I accidently found this e-mail a couple of days ago. I had genuinely forgotten that I had ever written it (given the time I sent it, I am not sure how much I had drunk at the time) and needless to say I didn't get a reply. If you want to be frustrated and dejected about our club, perhaps this (from our relegation season 10 years ago) is a better place to start,
Tue 19/10/2010 00:31
To: steve.tilson@redimps.com
Dear Mr. Tilson,
I remember being taken to my first Lincoln match by my father 35 years ago (he died last month).
I was very lucky. Graham Taylor was leading his team to a record breaking season and there was a lot of success to support. However, one of the main reasons those years stick in my mind is that Graham Taylor and leading striker John Ward vistied both my Cub Scout Troop and my School on two different occassions to share their success with a bunch of little kids.
Now, 35 years later, despite having left Lincoln in 1979 and still living 150 miles away, I normally travel to between 6 and 10 away games a season. I have 3 sons and my 6 year old is trying to be a Lincoln fan. My 7 year old supports the town he was born in, Shrewsbury, and I can't blame him for that, but I really don't want either of them to support Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool et al. without at least trying to have some affinity for a reason other than success and peer pressure.
I say that Tom is trying to be a Lincoln fan because I have now taken him to 5 Lincoln games and in 450 minutes of football he has not seen Lincoln score a goal. He has seen us lose to Shrewsbury twice, watched a 0-0 draw at Sincil Bank against Norwich and seen us torn apart 4-0 at Elland Road and 3-0 away at Accrington Stanley. He has every reason to desert to a Premiership Club and I think his only reason for not doing so is that he shares his middle name with my town of birth,
I ask only one thing of you Mr. Tilson: please give my son some reason to continue to support Lincoln City.
I wish you all the best.
Neil
Neil Cole
Telford
i bet the bugger never replied!