To praise or to criticise, as part of their team role or to illustrate a wider point about the club – here are a selection of articles that were devoted or centred upon a particular player.
- Mark Bower (May 2009)
- Joe Colbeck (July 2009)
- Barry Conlon (December 2008)
- Omar Daley and Willy Topp (June 2008)
- Tommy Doherty (May 2011)
- Edinho (June 2011)
- Jamie Lawrence (June 2011)
- Luke Medley (June 2008)
- Scott Neilson (August 2010)
- Luke O’Brien (February 2011)
- Zesh Rehman (December 2010)
- Donovan Ricketts (November 2009)
- Peter Thorne (March 2010)
- David Wetherall (March 2008)
On Edinho:
“Edinho’s exoticness blew my impressionable teenage mind. At a time when the Brazilian Ronaldo was the world’s best player, the shaven-headed Edinho was a passable imitation of the gap-toothed genius. His silky skills, his dribbling ability, his fancy flicks – I lapped it all up.”
On Barry Conlon:
“Barry is the type of player who will never be universally liked at this club. He can look ungainly, miss easy chances and launching balls up to him to win and hold up is never going to result in a 100% successful ratio. Yet it is to Conlon’s credit that the number of people who think he’s not good enough to play for this football club has drastically decreased; not just during the last few weeks when he has enjoyed his best run of form and goals in a City shirt, but since the day his signing was announced to underwhelmed supporters.”
On Luke O’Brien:
“Ever since breaking into the first time under Stuart McCall in October 2008, Luke has shown outstanding levels of work-rate and commitment to the cause. He never goes missing in games by shying away from the ball; and he displays a creditable focus on doing the right things for the team and his manager, even if that sometimes goes against the crowd’s wishes. Witnessing the way that the 22-year-old has developed his game and established himself as a key first team player – the Lincoln game was his 100th league start for City – has been one of the few bright spots of City’s time in League Two.”
