A few years ago Burnley were in less exotic company, playing Grimsby Town at Blundell Park in Division One. On the 29th October 2002, Grimsby won 6-5 and 8 different players scored goals in this match.
The score went (with Grimsby first) as follows:1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 6-5 Final whistle! I have tried to find a Lincoln City match played on this date but I gave up wading through a century and more fixtures on the 11 v 11 website. Why Lincoln City? It's for a friend.
Lincoln City, formed in 1884 (see below) celebrated their first game by beating locals Sleaford 9-1, on October 4th. In 1886-7 they won the Lincolnshire Senior Cup, a competition they have won 38 times, most recently in 2013-14. They were founder members of the Midland League in 1889-90, when the club was originally known as Lincoln Rovers.
They played an FA Cup Round One tie on November 1st 1884 away at Hull City, winning 1-5. The Imps then ventured on to a Second Round tie, when they got a bye; in Rd 3 they lost to Grimsby 1-0 away on January 3rd 1885.
By Round Four, the Grimsby Town team met the Old Carthusians (old boys of Charterhouse School in Godalming) who at the time, were one of the successful amateur teams playing better football than many of the emrging professional clubs.
Prior to meeting Grimsby, the OCs had been through Rd 1 v Acton away (1-7), in Rd 2 home to Marlow (5-3), then another bye in Rd 3. They then met Grimsby in Rd 4 winning 3-0, then went away to Chatham in Rd 5, winning 0-3, Church (from Shropshire) in Rd 6, an away win 0-3, meeting their match in the Semi-finals against the professionals of Blackburn Rovers, who beat them 5-1 on a neutral ground.
Rovers beat Queen's Park of Glasgow in the March 29th FA Cup final, 2-0 at The Oval (14,000 watched). The Scottish FA eventually banned their teams from playing in the English Cup.
Lincoln's best performance in the FA Cup was a quarter-final berth in 2016-17 and a Trophy Semi-final in 2016-17 too.
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