No Thanks – David Graham

Scottish born Graham was a huge disappointment at City, but if he’d come good, he could have been massive for us.

He started out at Glasgow Rangers before making his name scoring 47 times in 120 games for Torquay United. His form earned him a £215,000 move to Wigan Athletic, who he helped fire to the Premier League before a £250,000 move to Sheff Weds in August of 2005.

His time at Hillsborough wasn’t a happy one. He was blocked from going on a pre-season tour of the USA for a ‘minor police incident’ several years before. At the end of 2007, he was sent out on loan to bottom of the league Torquay after a serious breach of club discipline by manager Brian Laws. His Wednesday career was over.

He then turned up at Gillingham for half a season looking half the player he had when first at Torquay. He scored three times for The Gills in 16 appearances before being released in January. After six months out of the game, he arrived as one of Peter Jackson’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ singings that were meant to fire us to promotion. With the arrival of scoring sensation Adrian Patulea, he found his first-team appearances limited to just nine, with two starts.

His last game for Lincoln was in a 5-1 against Accrington, unfortunately for Graham he was replaced at half time by Patulea who duly scored twice. Graham was released at the end of his six-month spell. Graham had shown glimpses of his quality when on the pitch but he just didn’t get enough game time. He never looked like getting close to being fit and on match days could have been mistaken for a scruffy looking fan in the pub. Very few Imps fans mourned his departure. After Lincoln, he drifted into non-league with Ilkeston and three separate spells with the worlds oldest club Sheffield FC.