1996

Winger Worrell Sterling put pen to paper on an Imps deal on July 4th 1996, likely to a backdrop of Born Slippy, Three Lions, Killing Me Softly, The Day We Caught The Train, Oh Yeah, and Something for the Weekend (both the Divine Comedy and Super Furry Animals), all of which were in the charts.

Sterling had been a stalwart for Peterborough, Watford, and Bristol Rovers, and he looked like a solid acquisition on paper. He wasn’t – he played 21 times, often from the bench, and failed to score a goal, before leaving the club a year later.

Beck had four Dutch trialists as well. They didn’t sign for us, and having Googled them, they didn’t seem to do much else in football either.