Saturday’s impressive 3-0 win at Crawley put Lincoln City eight points clear at the top of League Two and perhaps, more importantly, thirteen points clear of Mansfield in fourth place.
Unbeaten in the league since Boxing Day, the Imps are very close to sealing promotion to the third tier of English football for the first time since 1998, a gap of twenty-one years.
With seven games remaining, it would appear the bookmakers believe it is a case of when and not if the Imps go up. According to the betting comparison website Oddschecker, just five out of twenty-eight bookmakers are still offering odds on the Imps winning promotion.
One of those, William Hill, is offering 1/500, which means you’d have to put £500 on to win a pound.
Lincoln entertain relegation-threatened Macclesfield Town on Saturday and will be looking to extend their unbeaten run in the league to seventeen games and further consolidate their position as league leaders, a position they have held for all but two weeks of the season so far.
Our View
Bookmakers are not often wrong, but one thing Lincoln must guard against is complacency.
The Imps are not over the line yet, and Danny Cowley will be drumming it into his player’s that the only league table that matters is the one at 5 00 pm on Saturday, May 4th.
They have some tough matches ahead, but I fully expect them to be in the top three at the season’s end, whether they will be champions is another question.
