2009/10 – 3 PPG (season average 1.09)
Okay, we only played once, but you have to hand it to Chris Sutton, he did Christmas well! I haven’t counted the cup game against Bolton on January 2nd, so the only game within the time frame was our 2-1 win against Chesterfield, when Jack ‘Lad’ Lester missed a penalty.
That was our only league game between December 12th (lost 3-1 to Rochdale) and January 16th (beat Barnet 2-1).
2008/09 – 1.33 PPG (season average 1.28)
Another bad one for Jacko. This time, we started well with a 1-0 win on December 20th against Notts County.
Boxing Day brought a 0-0 draw with Bradford City, almost as uninspiring as our 3-2 defeat against Luton Town on 28th December.
2007/08 – 0.25 PPG (season average 1.26)
What a difference a year makes. Peter Jackson was in situ, but the results were poor in 2007.
Darlington (4-0), Bradford City (2-1) and Grimsby (1-0) all beat us, before we salvaged a point against Bury on New Year’s Day thanks to Louis Dodds.
2006/07 – 2.25 PPG (season average 1.61)
Schoey’s collapse hadn’t quite started, and Christmas 2006 was one to cheer. Amoo set Christmas on fire on the 23rd with a brace at Peterborough, before Stallard and Hughes downed Boston on Boxing Day. Hughes then gave us a 1-0 win against Wycombe on 30th, before defeat at Macclesfield on January 2nd.
We wo one of the next five.
2005/06 – 0.75 PPG (season average 1.43)
Keith’s last Christmas in charge of the Imps was his worst. We took three points from four games in a season where we were pushed into the play-offs, rather than climbing in.
We drew 0-0 with Boston on Boxing Day, before Grimsby stuffed us like a turkey, 3-0. A 2-2 New Year’s Eve draw with Darlington and 0-0 January 2nd draw against Mansfield saw us stumble into 2006.