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GOALKEEPERS
In total 118
players (excluding Fred
Jones and Jack
Bryan who were stand-in outfield players) have started a
Football League game for us in goal whilst two others have made an
appearance as a substitute but never started a game.
A total of 17 players
only played one game in goal and they met with varying fortunes from Joseph
Dixon and Ray
Bell who kept a clean sheet to John
Hart, John
Hammond, Pat
Jeavons and Simon
Brown who all conceded five and poor Brian
Burden whose one appearance saw us lose 7-0
at Leeds
United in April 1961, our last away game to date in the top half
of the Football League.
The two who appeared as a substitute without starting a
game were Matthew
Ghent who replaced Alan
Marriott at Carlisle
United on December
2nd 2000 (Ghent did start an FA Cup tie the following week) and Darren
Horrigan who also replaced Marriott at half-time in the home
game with Southend
United on March
16th 2002. Both replacements kept clean sheets.
In total, 53 'keepers
have played less than 10 Football League games for us whilst to date
only 10 have kept goal in more than
100 League games.
Those 10 are as follows:
Player's Name
Apps
GC
CS
351
414
106
309
446
97
251
329
76
233
302
67
198
197
72
157
281
27
131
166
55
131
179
32
127
213
37
117
151
31
* GC - Goals Conceded ; CS - Clean Sheets Of the 'keepers who have played more than 10 League games only Eric McManus (13 goals conceded in 21 games at an average of one goal every 145.38 minutes) and Ian Bowling (58 goals conceded in 59 games at an average of one goal every 91.55 minutes) have a better record than David Felgate's one goal every 90.21 minutes. On average we have let a goal in every 70 minutes in Football League games. The worst records of those who have played 10 or more League games belong to Evan Roberts (70 goals in 23 games at an average of one every 29.43 minutes), who was our 'keeper in the 11-3 record defeat at Manchester City on March 23rd 1895 and Charles Blakey who let in 80 goals in 30 games, one every 33.75 minutes. A total of 34 'keepers, meanwhile, have failed to keep at least one Football League clean sheet - the following are the only ones to have played more than five matches, though:
Although no player has yet to score for the Imps in the Football League whilst playing in goal, Peter Grotier got his name on the scoresheet on three occasions in Lincolnshire Senior Cup matches. Grotier scored penalties against Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe United in 1976/77 whilst he was also on target the following season in a 1-1 draw with Scunthorpe. The most goalkeepers featuring in the League during the same season for City has been four, which has occurred on eight occasions. The most recent of these came in 2000/01 when Alan Marriott (30 apps), Chris Day (14), Tony Bullock (two) and Matthew Ghent (one as sub), donned the keeper's jersey. The last time four different players started the same season was in 1985/86 - the quartet being Stuart Naylor (20 apps), Trevor Swinburne (18), Dean Greygoose (six) and Alan Judge (two). Finally, Steve Sherwood was the first substitute goalkeeper to be used when he replaced the injured Andy Leaning in a 1-0 win at Wigan Athletic on April 1st 1995. |
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