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Retro Lincoln City FC
| KEVIN AUSTIN |
Born: 12th
February 1973 in London.Lincoln
City career: 148 appearances and 1 goal between
August 1996 to May 1999.
Position:
central defender.
International
career: 1 cap for Trinidad & Tobago.
Clubs:
Leyton Orient, Lincoln City, Brentford, Barnsley,
Cambridge United, Kettering Town, Bristol Rovers,
Swansea City and Chesterfield.
Kevin
Austin signed for Lincoln City in August 1996 for
£30,000. Money was scarce at the time, so
Lincoln were reluctant to sign him despite the
then Imps' manager John Beck describing him
"as the final part of the jigsaw." A
public appeal was started but the unexpected
revenue generated from hosting Alan Shearer's
Newcastle United debut, who was then the world's
most expensive player, meant that Lincoln could
sign Austin.
This
should have proved shrewd business for Lincoln
because Bristol City tabled a £400,000 bid for
Austin in October 1998. However, he opted to stay
at Lincoln but during the summer of 1999 he
signed for Barnsley on a free transfer under the
Bosman ruling.
Soon
afterwards, he sustained a bad injury whilst
playing against Lincoln in the League Cup. This
damaged his Barnsley career and when he was
eventually fit, he found himself out of the first
team. He later joined Brentford on loan in
October 2000 before a permanent transfer to
Oxford United fell through. However, 2000 would
prove a memorable year for Austin as he was
capped at international level for Trinidad &
Tobago.
In
July 2001, he left Barnsley by mutual consent and
joined Beck's Cambridge United. Injury continued
to take its toll and he drifted into non-league
football with Kettering Town. However, Bristol
Rovers gave him another chance at the
professional game but he later left to join
Swansea City, where he become a vital member of
Swansea's successful squad.
After
helping Swansea to win promotion and League One
title in 2008, he decided to join Chesterfield to
gain regular first team football.
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| COLIN ALCIDE |
Born: 14th
April 1972 in Huddersfield.Lincoln
City career: 140 appearances and 31 goals,
between December 1995 to March 1999.
Position:
centre-forward.
Clubs:
Emley, Lincoln City, Hull City, York, Cambridge
United, Gainsborough Trinity, Exeter City, TNS
and Ashton United.
Colin
Alcide joined The Imps from little known Emley,
who would later became very well known to Lincoln
City supporters after their shock win over The
Imps in the 1997/98 FA Cup.
John
Beck spotted Alcide and decided that Alcide would
make an ideal target man for his long-ball
tactics that he so favoured. Alcide did indeed
make a good target man as he often flicked on
corners, throw-ins or just caused a general
nuisance in the opposition's penalty area.
His
finishing sometimes let him down but without his
goals and assists during the 1997-98 season,
Lincoln would not have achieved promotion.
Despite this, his Lincoln City career finished on
a sour note after he was transfer listed by John
Reames for rejecting a new contract; a loan move
to Hull City quickly followed. The loan was to be
made permanent as soon as Hull paid the £60,000
transfer fee but Hull continually stalled thereby
forcing Reames to recall Alcide to Lincoln. Hence
with his Imps' career seemingly over, he found
himself not only back at Sincil Bank but gaining
a dramatic first-team recall at Fulham.
There
was to be no happy ending as he failed to score
on that day but his recall to the first team
prompted Hull into action. Within the week, the
cash was paid and Alcide was gone for good. Six
months later, Hull sold Alcide to York City for
£80,000 representing a profit of £20,000 for
Hull, while being another example of Lincoln
selling their players too cheaply.
Alcide
was reunited with Beck in May 2001, when he left
York for Cambridge United in a £30,000 deal. He
stayed at Cambridge United for just one season
before returning to Lincolnshire to sign for
non-league Gainsborough Trinity in 2002. He
absence from the Football League was brief as he
linked up with Exeter City soon afterwards,
although he played just one match for the Devon
club.
At
start of the 2004/05 season Alcide signed for
Welsh League club TNS, making his debut in their
UEFA Cup match against Osters IF. However, this
would prove his only appearance for TNS as Alcide
was reunited with his former Emley manager Gerry
Quinn, whom by now was the manager of Ashton
United; Alcide stayed at Ashton for just one
season, making eight appearances.
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| FRANCIS GREEN |
| Born: 23rd April
1980 in Derby. Position: striker.
Lincoln City
career: 87+(29) appearances and 20 goals between
September 2003 to May 2006.
Clubs: Ilkeston
Town, Peterborough United, Lincoln City, Boston
United, Macclesfield Town and Kettering Town.
Francis Green
became the first player to be bought by Lincoln
City in over two years, when he signed in
September 2003 on a 2½ year contract from
Peterborough United. The £25,000 fee agreed for
Green could have risen depending on whether
Lincoln gained promotion, plus it is also
included a sell-on clause.
The transfer ended
Imps' manager Keith Alexander's 3-month chase for
Green that appeared to have prematurely ended in
summer 2003 when Peterborough's manager Barry Fry
rejected an original £25,000 bid.
Alexander knew of
Green's potential having managed him at their
former club Ilkeston Town, where Green began his
career in August 1997. In March 1998, Alexander
sold him to Peterborough in a £25,000 deal from
Ilkeston. He went on to make 126 appearances for
Peterborough, although half were substitute
appearances; he also scored 16 goals.
Green is both
exciting and frustrating to watch for his team's
supporters. He has blistering pace but he lacks
the goal scoring finish that is expected of a
striker. In November 2005, he made a shock loan
switch to county rivals Boston United where he
stayed for two months.
Upon his return to
Lincoln City, he reclaimed his first team place
and helped guide The Imps to a fourth consecutive
League Two play-off qualification. However,
within 48-hours of Lincoln being eliminated from
the 2005/06 play-offs, he was leaving Lincoln
City for a permanent transfer to Boston United
via the Bosman ruling - although Lincoln City
stated that were releasing him anyway.
Green was unable
to help prevent Boston United from being
relegated from the Football League at the end of
the 2006/07 season. He would then leave Boston
United to join Macclesfield Town. 18-months
later, Green would be reunited with his former
manager Alexander, who joined the Cheshire club
in March 2008.
Under Alexander,
Green's Macclesfield career ended when he was
released in May 2009. Two months later, he joined
Conference National club Kettering Town.
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