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Lincoln City's manager - Peter Jackson
By Nathan Jackson
August 8 2008
Peter Jackson is the current manager of Lincoln City. The charasmatic manager has raised optimism around LN5 and he is a proven manager at this level, also having a winning record of 45.45% whilst in charge of the Imps, can he replicate his record again this season?

Peter Jackson is the current manager of Lincoln City and he has certainly made an impact at Sincil Bank. He has won 45.45% of the games that he has managed for City and has management to transform the atmosphere around the club to one of hope and optimism.

Born in 1961, Jackson started out his footballing career with Bradford City. He went on to make an impressive 278 appearances for the club but his penultimate season ended in disaster. He was the captain of Bradford City on the day of the fire at Valley Parade, almost ironically against Lincoln City. It was supposed to be a day of joy but a fire started in the main stand and 56 fans died. Jackson left Bradford a year later for Newcastle United.

60 appearances for the Magpies saw a return to Bradford for two years in 1988 before joining Huddersfield Town in 1990. The defender went on to become a popular player at Leeds Road, making 155 appearances before leaving for Chester City. 100 appearances in three years was followed by an 8 game spell for Halifax before retiring from professional football.

He was a shock choice to replace Brian Horton as the manager of Huddersfield Town. He helped the Terriers avoided relegation before finishing 10th the following season. He was controversially sacked by Barry Rubery so that Steve Bruce could take up the hot seat at Huddersfield. Skip forward to 2003 and Jackson again returned to Huddersfield, inheriting a squad of just 8 players to work with.

The Terriers were in the hunt for the automatic promotion places nearly all season long before a blip set in at the end of the season. They faced Lincoln City in the Playoffs and in one of the most entertaining Playoff ties in history, Huddersfield progressed 4-3 on aggregate before beating Mansfield on penalties in the final. Two years later and Huddersfield were in the League One Playoffs, losing to Barnsley 3-2 on aggregate after taking a 1-0 lead into the second leg.

Jackson was sacked the following season and was out of football until October 2007, being appointed as Lincoln City manager. Although he didn't get off to the best start, Jackson did eventually start inspiring the Imps and City pulled away from the drop zone, although Jackson himself would miss the final 9 weeks of the season after announcing he had throat-cancer.

He returned to near-full health during the summer of 2008 and is set to lead the Imps on a charge.

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