Reaction to Macclesfield game

By Nathan Jackson
April 19 2005

A collection on random snippets from various sources in reaction to City's win over Macclesfield. Some quotes include the art of hoofball, a complete performance and enough chances to win 3 games.

The Times - National Newspaper.

IF DIRECT FOOTBALL IS AN art, Macclesfield Town painted a worthless masterpiece on Saturday. They arrived at Sincil Bank a point and a place above their hosts and left two points and a place below them and with the car park behind the main stand littered with match balls.

Keith Alexander - Lincoln Manager

“It was an almost complete performance, so let the other managers keep talking and we’ll keep doing the business, everybody goes on about us being a long-ball team, but they kept pumping balls forward.”

Brian Horton - Macclesfield Manager

“We had enough chances to win two or three games and I am astonished that once again we have come away with nothing, at the beginning of the season we were killing our opponents but we are not punishing them at the moment. That is as well as we have played away from home all season and I am sure that we will make the play-offs — at least.”

Howard Eaton - Lincoln fan

Todays game dragged on abit I felt, Macclesfield were not a top 7 side, they were very poor and it felt very easy for us. It was really good to get the 3 points.

"Distracted" - Macclesfield fan

If we had just scored one of our early chances the final score could have been very different. I agree with the person who said that the first goal in this game was always going to be crucial. Our players seemed to drop their heads after Lincoln's first goal.