Lincoln City are on the verge of a return to the Football League, but thirty years ago they were not so lucky.
When the Football League announced a series of structural reforms in the game during April 1986, one particular innovation appeared to be long overdue. Out went the antiquated re-election system that would decide whether a club remained in Division Four, the days of the "old boys network" thankfully at an end. In came automatic promotion and relegation between the Fourth Division and the GM Vauxhall Conference, with the champions of the latter replacing the team finishing rock bottom in the Football League.
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Thursday 20 April 2017
1986/87: Division Four relegation battle
by
Mirab Poetry
on
12:05
Torquay United
Labels:
1986-87,
1987,
Burnley,
football,
Fourth Division,
Jim McNichol,
Lincoln City,
relegation,
Scarborough,
Torquay United
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