Sad News for City

16th February 2008

It has been a busy week at Sincil Bank but one news story sadly towers over the rest.

On Thursday, Imps' boss Peter Jackson revealed that he has been diagnosed with throat cancer. Fortunately, there is a 98% chance of survival with this cancer. Already, Jackson has declared that he is strong enough to fight the disease. The Forgotten Imp would like to wish him all the best.

Jackson's treatment for his cancer means that he will have to take around seven weeks off work. This is four weeks for treatment plus another two or three weeks to recover from the treatment.

Taking Jackson's place will be Iffy Onuora and Grant Brown, who next month will take charge of team affairs until Jackson returns to work. Obviously Brown needs no introduction but Onuora does, for he is a new face at Sincil Bank. Onuora was, on Tuesday, named as the new assistant-manager of Lincoln City FC. He knows Jackson well, as they were together at Huddersfield Town.

Tuesday was a good day for Lincoln City, who recorded their biggest win of the season, away at Accrington Stanley. The match ended 3-0 to Lincoln with goals - all rather scrappy admittedly - from Mark Stallard, Ben Wright and Lee Beevers. Right from the 6th minute when Stallard scored, Lincoln were always in control although Accrington did have a couple of good spells of play.

Moving on to Saturday (today) and Lincoln entertained fellow relegation strugglers Macclesfield Town in another six-pointer of a fixture. Macclesfield started the brighter of the two sides and were rewarded in 7th minute when Gareth Evans converted Terry Dunfield's cross past Imps' goalkeeper Alan Marriott. Lincoln had several chances to even the scores before the first half drew to a close - alas, Macclesfield goalkeeper Jonny Brain made a couple of excellent saves to deny City players. At the other end, Marriott pulled off two fine saves to keep Macclesfield's lead to just one goal. However, in the 39th minute, Brain was injured and had to be replaced by Tommy Lee.

Lee had little to do for the first half of the second half, as Lincoln contrived to shoot either high or wide. That though changed in the 71st minute when a free-kick towards the Macclesfield goal eventually fell to Lenell John-Lewis who scored. John-Lewis was instrumental ten minutes later when he collected the ball from a throw-in before passing to Jamie Forrester, who made it 2-1 to Lincoln. Lenell John-Lewis completed a man-of-the-match performance when he set-up Dany N'Guessan in injury time to leave the final score as a 3-1 victory to Lincoln City.

Meanwhile, Imps' defender Jack Cotton has left the club by mutual consent.

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