@lincolncityfc.bsky.social have now beaten Doncaster Rovers 30 times at home in the Football League. They join Stockport on 30 defeats here with only Hartlepool (33) and Darlington (31) having lost more at Sincil Bank in the FL. See the image for trivia about opposition own goals in the FL for City

Remembering the 17 Lincoln City players who have died on military service

14 made a first team appearance, nine in the Football League, one in the Midland League and four in war time competitions whilst three were professionals but hadn't yet appeared in the first team.

Most of the previous Thursday games have been played on Christmas, Boxing or New Years day

With @lincolncityfc.bsky.social finally being picked for the awful Thursday night 8pm slot by Sky it will be the 60th time the Imps have played a 1st team League/Play Off/ Cup (exc Lincs Cup) game on Thursday and just the 10th (from times traced) that we will kick off at 8pm or later.

Player welfare is, rightly, number one priority in 2025 but it hasn't always been so with numerous instances in the past where the treatment of injured players seems incredible today. November 5th 1927 was one such occasion for Len Hill the @lincolncityfc.bsky.social goalkeeper.

The 28 in order by goals conceded per minute are David Felgate, Ian Bowling, Josh Vickers, George Wickens, Rob Burch, George Moulson, Peter Grotier, Mark Wallington, Alf Webb, Jimmy Jones, Dan McPhail, Barry Richardson, Jack Kendall, Arthur Jepson, Alan Marriott, John Kennedy, John Vaughan, William Sissons, Alf Buist, Mike Pollitt, Len Hill, Mitch Downie, Terry Carling, Jerry Lowery, Tom Fern, Bill Heath, Bob Graves and James Saunders

George Wickens reached 50 Football League starts for @lincolncityfc.bsky.social and fittingly marked the small milestone with a clean sheet. He joins a select group of 28 Imps to have started a FL regular season match in goal on at least 50 occasions. Names on ALT
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2nd defeat in London on our last visit, unless we get a Cup tie in the capital, this season for @lincolncityfc.bsky.social City's record in London isn't great with both the win and loss % being considerably different in visits to London compared to the average in all Football League away games

As this account is dedicated to @lincolncityfc.bsky.social you can probably guess the 3rd! It is another trivia piece regarding the Imps. I claim no credit for the research as it is from The English Football Record Facebook group which features all kinds of obscure facts and figures.

If at the end of a season you have scored the fewest goals in the division you will most likely have finished nearer the bottom than the top. 6th in the table is the highest any team scoring the least goals has finished and it has happened 3 times in the FL Derby 1901/02 and Watford 1949/50 are 2

Pleased to have been involved with this project. On sale Saturday from the Red Imps Community Trust pod Hopefully the first of many issues

The away draw in the FA Cup means @lincolncityfc.bsky.social face five consecutive away games after this Saturday's visit of Stevenage. The club record is seven consecutive away games which has happened on two previous occasions.

2/2 All but 2 have been since 1998 maybe because players are fitter or because referees now add more time on? In contrast Tranmere Rovers scored inside 60 seconds at Sincil Bank in 1963/64 and won 1-0 for the quickest opposition winning goal at Lincoln in the Football League

1/2 Kevin McDonald's winning goal for Exeter City @lincolncityfc.bsky.social was the 7100th FL goal scored against the Imps. City have played 2372 home FL games and lost just 12 to a last minute winner (from goal times traced) with McDonald's being the latest time traced.

Happy Lincolnshire Day

Winning the Lincolnshire Cup was one of the main motives behind the formation of @lincolncityfc.bsky.social in 1884 and three years later City won the cup for the first time beating Grimsby Town 2-0 in a replay at Gainsborough Trinity's Northolme ground.

@lincolncityfc.bsky.social 3-0 win at Peterborough was the club's biggest ever at London Road. It came 18 years 278 days since City's last win there. A long time but compared to some gaps between away wins not long at all! Records are for Football League matches only
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Tonight sees @lincolncityfc.bsky.social play Chelsea for the first time in a senior competitive match since 1911 City are producing a programme for the match so hopefully it will include some historical content on the few previous meetings between the two clubs. If not a brief history is below

Some trivia from yesterday's excellent @lincolncityfc.bsky.social 3-1 victory against Luton Town

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Just the 31st Football League meeting between @lincolncityfc.bsky.social and @lutontown.co.uk today. In 4741 previous FL games Lincoln have had just one 8-1 win, one 9-3 defeat and five 4-4 draws. Luton have been the opponents on three of those occasions!

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@lincolncityfc.bsky.social 1-0 win at Burton saw Adam Jackson make his 200th Football League start (136 for Lincoln, 28 for Hartlepool, 36 for Barnsley) and Sonny Bradley become the latest Imp to score for City on their birthday

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OTD in 1927 @lincolncityfc.bsky.social all time record goalscorer Andy Graver was born in Craghead, County Durham. Sold to Leicester in 1954 for a club record fee received of £27000 he returned a year later for a club record fee paid of £14000! He died in 2014

Whilst James Collins 200th EFL goal rightly got all the headlines it wasn't the only milestone reached at Sincil Bank yesterday as @lincolncityfc.bsky.social also reached one with the 2-2 draw. Details below along with a couple of other bits of trivia

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2/2 Nine of those have played for @lincolncityfc.bsky.social in the Football League at some point in their career. The all-time record scorer Arthur Rowley (433 goals) played once for City during WW2. He scored a hat trick!

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1/2 By scoring his 200th Football League goal James Collins has joined the select band of 129 players to have reached that milestone (in Football League and Premier League) since 1888.

Sad to see Lincoln City Women’s first game of the season on Sunday has been postponed. No reason given but lack of players as they were advertising as recently as Tuesday for them would seem the likely reason.

the clubs oldest surviving player 96 year old Roy Killin has been traced in Canada. The 10 players believed to be the current 10 oldest are shown. Missing from previous lists are Ken Bracewell and Alf Jones both of whom are believed to have sadly passed away without being recognised.

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After the sad news last week regarding the passing of Ron Harbertson and Steve Thompson it's nice to be able to bring some better news regarding former @lincolncityfc.bsky.social players Thanks to the help of Canadian soccer experts Christian Hesle (thecnsl.com) and Les Jones

Busy day for incomings but first chance I've had to recognise a departing Imp's career. Possibly a move that took many by surprise as it hadn't been splashed all over social media for days. A throwback to the days when you only found out about moves in the Echo!
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Another sad loss to the @lincolncityfc.bsky.social family. I was very lucky to spend time in his company at Sincil Bank and at various away games when we bumped into each other at services. City Legend Full Stop

Sad to hear of the passing of Ron Harbertson Signed from Darlington in March 1958 with City manager Bill Anderson scaling the walls at Feethams in the early hours of Saturday morning to retrieve his boots so he could make his debut that afternoon at Anfield!

@lincolncityfc.bsky.social have scored 19 away Football League goals reportedly inside the first 60 seconds. The ten quickest where the actual second the goal was scored was reported in the press, usually the Lincolnshire Echo, are below but in most cases cannot be accurately confirmed.

60 years ago today @lincolncityfc.bsky.social made the clubs 1st Football League substitution when Roy Chapman replaced Bunny Larkin at half time in a 2-0 Division 4 win at Darlington

All figures below relate to regular FL season games only