Lincoln:1 U's:3 - Cups half full and cups half empty

A little while back, I asked my, ahem, army of Twitter followers whether they could think of a better nickname for our manager than Lingy.

My favourite response was the suggestion from @chrisozz that "If he were a wrestler I think he'd be called The Linguist."

This seems particularly apt given some of the things Martin Ling comes out with. After all, the best nicknames are often the most ironic.

"Today [Sunday's game at Lincoln] was another banana skin and we came through it with flying colours," announced our leader, taking the english language and pushing it through the mangle a couple more times for good measure. "It's a difficult place to come and you have to come and do the job and do it right and we did that today."

It was always going to be an uphill struggle for Lincoln without the presence of the legendary Terry Fleming, who dropped out of the match because playing against United would have been too emotional for him he had a prior engagement. Had the gold-toothed schemer been on the pitch, flopping his rubbish long throws into the box at every opportunity, the outcome could have been far different.

Although by the sounds of things we were below par again, I think that Sunday's match was always going to be a no-win situation for United - if you lose it's massively embarrassing, and if you win you always think you should have beaten such lowly opposition more convincingly. Nevertheless, [cliche]the main thing is that we're through to the next round[/cliche], and have a winnable looking game on the horizon against Blue Square North side Ilkeston.

Meanwhile the Villagers have come up with a cunning plan to make up for the lack of Cup income - a hastily arranged glamour friendly with, er, Peterborough reserves. Sounds like a sure-fire money spinner to me, I hope Cambridgeshire Police have been informed about the massive crowd that will no doubt be in attendance.

Presumably Steve Y'Know will also continue hawking Lanre Oyebanjo round to all and sundry: "He will go somewhere in the January window I would imagine, so we’ve got to do what’s best for us and for Lanre," a not-at-all-desparate sounding Y'Know told the CN last week after P*sh agreed to take the right back on trial. Methinks a long hard winter could be in prospect at The Glassworld