The many failings of the football club I support, summed up in one match.

I don't often write about football on this blog but yesterday pissed me off. Lincoln City could only draw 0-0 with Carshalton Athletic, a team that are two divisions below the Imps.

To sum that up in a quote, I am going to use one from the TV show "Dead Like Me." (a TV show I would highly recommend by the way)

"I don't like saying this in this hallowed place, but this is fucking inadequate!" : Rube Sofer, played by Mandy Pitinkin (right),

It takes a lot to piss me off these days, I'm far more laid back than I used to be but I am truly disgusted with my football club at the moment. I learned to accept a while ago that we're not very good, but even I never imagined we would struggle to even have a shot against a poor team. It was truly ridiculous.


I'm not sure what pissed me off the most about the performance.

• Everytime one of our players got the ball they just stopped. This isn't fucking netball, you can move with the ball once you receive it.
• When we broke two-on-one, three-on-two, etc, we wouldn't try and take advantage, we would always effectively stop and wait for the defence to get back in place.
• Set pieces. I don't know why Lincoln fans bother getting excited when we win a set piece.......when John Nutter takes a set piece, it always hits the first defender. No point winning set pieces if you're just going to waste them.
• Getting into the box and not playing balls across goal first time around, instead stopping, cutting back onto their other foot (ridiculously not even their prefered foot) and then playing a piss poor pass straight to a defender.
• The inability to complete a pass to someone who is more than five yards away.
• The lack of having a shot, even when the chance was available.
• Having all that possession and doing precisely fuck all with it.
• Players just giving up and not chasing down.

That's a brief summary of some of the things I hate about not only this game, but about Lincoln in general at these days, but then David Holdsworth did one of the most idiotic things I have ever seen in my time at Lincoln.

We're facing a team two divisions below us at home, we're struggling break them down with 2 strikers on the pitch......so what the fuck does he do? He takes one of the two strikers off and goes 4-5-fucking-1, one of the worst formations in football. It shows a lack of ambition, especially against a side who provided fuck all quality throughout the game themselves. 4-5-1 is one of those formations that basically symbolises you have given up hope of winning the game. You won't concede many goals but you won't score many either. It's a formation which means that it's very hard to get anything out of the game if you go behind.

It's not helped by having a revolving door policy, especially when most coming in are not better than those that are already here. Robson made his debut in the Carshalton game and kept playing balls into the box with precisely fuck all power on them, meaning they were easily cleared. He's no better than Tony Sinclair, and as Keith Alexander (RIP) always said, there's no point bringing in players that aren't better than what you already have.

Keith would also give a player a decent chance to make an impression before getting rid of him, Holdsworth seems to only give some one game before deciding he doesn't want them. Give them a chance, David.

I'm looking at the squad and although changes were forced becuase of the financial situation, how many players can I look at in the current general starting XI and say they are better than the player they've replaced? Not many. Conal Platt is better than Gavin McCallum, but other than that I don't think a single player out there that Holdsworth has bought to the club is better than the player they have replaced.

Following this football club is becoming more tedious by the minute and going to games it becoming more like a chore.