About theimps.ka : A brief history

Theimps.ka (previously known as theimps.tk) is an unofficial website dedicated to Lincoln City Football Club (for the purposes of this section, we'll refer to it by the name is was called at the time). Lincoln City are a football club that are currently in the Blue Square Premier division English football's fifth tier. The website is currently run by Nathan Jackson. Nathan had run the website since it's opening in 2003.

After a slow start with the site getting little over 1,000 hits a month, the site suddenly boomed when it was syndicated onto national websites such as Newsnow and it now averages over 15,000 hits a day. The message board suddenly kicked into action and went from a new message once every 4 or 5 days to an average at one point of a message every 15 seconds.

Several features were added including the Ground Guide and a editorial called "Bournemouth to Bournemouth," a story of Nathan's final 5 weeks of the 2002/3 season.

In March 2006 theimps.tk was voted as the Site of the Month, the first time since the website started and it turned out that we would also be the final website to win this award.

In 2006 Nathan expanded the site to include a Youtube channel that followed his experiences on away games following the Imps. These videos didn't start as they were initially hoped and hits were very low. Over time the videos have grown in popularity and now Nathan gets recognised in places he's never visited, somewhere he's not overly keen on.

In April 2007 the videos were given national coverage by Zoo Magazine as they were featured as a part of the build up to the Playoffs. They highlighted a trip to Bristol Rovers that Nathan had just taken part in. The weekend saw Nathan travel down for the weekend with Ben Grundy and Mark Lovely to celebrate the latter's birthday. However, a fight between Ben and Mark resulted in the three getting ejected from the hotel.

In 2008 the website entered it's 5th year and in that time Nathan has been helped on a semi-regular basis by other people who have wrote articles and have been in the videos.

Due to Keith Alexander's death in March 2010, the website changed it's name to theimps.ka as a tribute to the popular manager.

Theimps.ka is always on the look out for new contributors to the website and Nathan will read any article that is sent. Please note that not all requests can't be accepted but if you're more than welcome to try.

If you wish to get in contact with Nathan then he can be contacted at bestfriendsbecomestrangers@hotmail.co.uk and put why you are contacting Nathan in the subject, for example if you want to write articles for the site then put something like "Possibility of Writing Articles?" in the subject line. All emails that arrive with "No Subject" will be ignored and deleted.

However, Nathan stresses that is not an invitation to add him to MSN, email him for unimportant issues or look him up on social networking websites such as Myspace or Facebook. If you do any of the above more times than is appropriate then he will block your email address from contacting him.

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