The other night a Lincoln City supporter started the following hashtag on Twitter: #LincolnNonLeagueHorrorStories. The first matches I thought of were Carshalton Athletic away in The FA Trophy when we got beat 3-1 and North Ferriby United at home, also in The FA Trophy, which finished 4-0 to the visitors.
https://twitter.com/samueljoshua90/status/1115715651937689600
Here’s a few of the posts from the thread on 100% Imps:
Scotimp: “Oddly enough, my low points were two wins.
Win number one came at Hyde on the final day of the 2012-13 season. We went into that game needing a win to guarantee safety in the Conference Premier. I remember driving absent-mindedly around the M60 before the game being unable to believe the position we had got ourselves into. We won 5-1 with a terrific hat-trick by Vadaine Oliver, but it was immaterial because Stockport lost at Kidderminster anyway. The point to which we had descended was the dominant thing, and the outlook was very bleak.
Win number two came against Telford at home in October 2014. I arrived at the ground well after two o’clock and the turnstiles were not yet open. There was no one around, tumbleweed was blowing along Sincil Bank and the atmosphere was dead. The atmosphere never picked up during the game either despite two second-half goals from Tomlinson and a Sean Newton penalty. I thought the club was effectively dead, and had completed the journey from former League club to non-league club. The football was terrible, the matchday experience terrible, everything was terrible. Even though we had won, I left the game convinced I would never see City in the FL again. The essence of the club had been lost forever.
Shivers down the spine just thinking about it.”
imps_joe: “One that sticks out to me is the fa trophy game against North Ferriby. I don’t think it was even that late in the competition, but we were doing pretty poorly in the league (as usual) and this seemed like a chance to get a cup run going. I wasn’t the only who thought this either. It was a pretty decent crowd for a cup game (over 2000), but we were all squashed in the Co-op lower. Though North Ferriby were bankrolled at the time and doing well in the league, I thought we would do well. How wrong I was. We were battered and lost 4 0.”
Snats: “Went to Nuneaton in March 2013 when we in real danger of going down. Awful game in an awful stadium became even worse when (a) it started hammering down and (b) Wes York scored a 93rd-minute winner. And I think there might have been trouble after the game too. Things looked very bleak that day.”
"Oddly enough, my low points were two wins.":https://t.co/Ex8CblpuYL#LincolnNonLeagueHorrorStories #ImpsAsOne
— Vital Lincoln City (@VitalLincoln) April 11, 2019
https://www.facebook.com/VitalLincolnCity/posts/2139527599416807
