We’re raising money for the Bradford Burns Unit this month and our target is £500.00. There are many ways you can help us reach this target. One of those ways is to have a go at our quizzes because they generate page views. Once you have had a go, share your results on Social Media, increasing the reach and page views!
If you haven’t already had a go at the quizzes, they can be found here: Quiz No.1, Quiz No.2, Quiz No.3, Quiz No.4, Quiz No.5, Quiz No.6 and Quiz No.7. I know the answers for Quiz No.4 are available below, but if you haven’t had a go, don’t read the answers and give it a go!
1. Which Lincoln City manager won the most full international caps as a player?
a) David Herd
b) Willie Bell
c) Allan Clarke
d) Con Moulson
Clarke won 19 caps, scoring a creditable 10 goals in what was generally a poor England side. To the surprise of many, Herd won just 5 caps (3 goals) between 1958 and 1961; bizarrely, he never won a cap during his entire time at Manchester United despite scoring 145 goals in 265 appearances for them. Bell won his 2 caps in June 1966 against Portugal and Brazil, who were warming up for the World Cup Finals. Moulson is the only one of the four to have won caps whilst actually playing for Lincoln, appearing in two games against Hungary and Luxembourg in May 1936 before joining Notts County where he won his other three caps (five in total).
2. What is Walter Ponting’s unique claim to Lincoln City fame?
a) He scored a hat-trick that was expunged the following week
b) He missed three penalties in one match
c) He scored in each of his first six games for the club
d) He scored four goals in a match and was never picked again
Ponting scored his hat-trick in the 4-3 Third Division North win over Gateshead on 2 September 1939. War was declared on Germany the very next day, and all official football activities were suspended indefinitely on 8 September with the three matches played declared null and void. It proved to be his last match in professional football – like many players whose careers were interrupted by hostilities, he never returned to football after the war.
3. Which is the odd band out?
a) The Who
b) The Animals
c) Small Faces
d) The Yardbirds
We are talking about the Lincoln Pop Festival, which took place at Sincil Bank on 30 May 1966. The Animals were the only band of the four not to appear, although Alan Price did perform with the Alan Price Set. Despite having a great line up, the event was poorly supported and lost money.
4. What was the significance of Lee Angol’s goal at Southport in the final game of the 2016-17 championship season?
a) It meant that he had scored in every game he had started
b) It was City’s 51st away goal of the season, a new club record
c) The point it earned took City to 100 points for the season
d) It made him the highest-scoring loan player in the club’s history
The goal took Lincoln past the previous record of 50, set in 1975-76. More pertinently, the soft goal conceded late on by the less than competent Ross Etheridge meant that City missed the magical 100 points.
5. From which club did Chris Sutton disastrously sign Adam Watts, Matthew Saunders, Joe Anderson and Michael Uwezu?
a) Millwall
b) Queens Park Rangers
c) Fulham
d) Aston Villa
I bet Fulham still have a good laugh about that today. Similar to buying a job lot of faulty knives from Delboy.
6. Which teenage starlet was sold to Liverpool, scored twice on his First Division debut against Grimsby at Anfield, and never scored again for any team?
a) Fred Panther
b) Billy Egerton
c) Tom Burlison
d) Ted Savage
Right-half Savage had a great start to his football career with the Imps, making his debut at 17, and playing exactly 100 games before being sold to Liverpool for £2,750 on 5 May 1931 at the age of 19. He made his Liverpool debut against Grimsby on 26 September 1931 playing at inside-left, and scored in the 66th and 82nd minutes of a 4-0 win. Liverpool converted him to a defender after that, and he would make a total of 105 appearances for them before being sold to Manchester United in December 1937. He went straight into United’s side on New Year’s Day 1938 for the 2-2 draw at Newcastle, and stayed in the side for five matches before losing his place as United won promotion back to the First Division. Failing to appear again for United, he joined Third Division North strugglers Wrexham on a free transfer on 18 November 1938 before the war ended his career. He never scored again after that brace against Grimsby. Ted continued to live in Anfield until he died in his sleep on 30 January 1964 at the age of 51.
In case you are wondering, £2,750 in 1931 is worth around £190,000 today.
7. Which player holds the club record for appearances in a season by a goalkeeper?
a) Paul Farman
b) Alan Marriott
c) David Felgate
d) Peter Grotier
Farman’s 58 appearances in 2016-17 left him practically unable to kick the ball. Felgate held the record previously with 57 in 1982-83. The most appearances made by Marriott in a season was 54 in 2003-04, and Grotier 54 in 1974-75.
8. What did striker John Irving become the first Lincoln City player to do during the Second Division game at Grimsby Town on 10 November 1894?
a) To play as an emergency goalkeeper
b) To score a hat-trick away from home
c) To be sent off in a league match
d) To be substituted
Irving was sent off along with Grimsby’s Tom Frith during the Second Division game at Blundell Park, the first City player to be sent off in a Football League match. Grimsby won the game 3-0 to move into third place, while City dropped to third from bottom.
9. In which season did Lincoln City score their record number of league goals?
a) 1975-76
b) 1951-52
c) 1931-32
d) 2016-17
They scored 121 in 1951-52, 111 in 1975-76, 106 in 1931-32, and ‘only’ 83 in 2016-17.
10. Why did seven thousand Lincoln supporters travel to Grimsby on 9 October 1948?
a) City were top of the Second Division with Grimsby a point behind
b) Admission was free as part of the 1948 London Olympics
c) To see record signing Jock Dodds make his debut
d) To see new manager Bill Anderson’s first game
Dodds was an astonishing signing. A full Scottish international, he famously scored a hat-trick against England in April 1942, and had scored a First Division hat-trick for Everton against Preston just a few weeks before joining Lincoln. He eventually scored well over 400 goals in his career including an incredible 230 in wartime football for Blackpool, Manchester United, Fulham and West Ham. Curiously, he had spent a short spell at Lincoln in 1934 after leaving Huddersfield, but Sheffield United snapped him up before he could make an appearance for us. What might have been, had he stayed with us at that point.
The fee of £6,000 is equivalent to £220,000 today, a huge investment by Lincoln at the time. Dodds was probably the greatest player ever to wear City’s colours – no wonder 7,000 risked an afternoon at the Grimsby midden to see him play.
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