Lincoln double over Grimsby

Technically, this happened before the Dover game, but as it’s two fixtures I’ve counted it as the end of the season. 2014/15 was the first double we’d done over Grimsby since the seventies and again it established a touch of respect once again.

The first game took place in early September and I can’t forget it as I had a meeting in Northampton. I lived in Cambridge at the time and couldn’t get out of what Howdens called a ‘bored meeting’ (sorry, board meeting). We drove to Northampton, sat and listened to sale rhetoric for an hour, then were forced to go and have a curry. I had no chance of making the game and no signal.

It was only on the way home in a car full of Spurs and Man Utd fans I heard we’d finally done them for the first time in eight years. I had a spring in my step for a day or two after that, at least until we lost 3-2 at home against Bristol Rovers four days later.

The Christmas game as a little different, it was illuminated by Charlee Adams’ wonder goal, but was an occasion that many fans will surely have in their moment of the decade list. Playing in a really fetching light blue we roasted the fish on their own backyard and took a double away to give us real bragging rights. After being pumped by them time and again in the eight years before, I’d like to think they’ve failed to wrestle the pride back from us since.

God bless Hamza Bencherif, Jordan Burrow, Sean Newton, Charlee Adams, Alan Power and of course, Marcus Marshall.