125 years years ago today, a meeting was called at the Monson Arms Hotel in Lincoln when it was decided to establish a new football club...

Here's how the Lincolnshire Chronicle reported the aforementioned meeting, with the following being published on June 28th 1884 and sandwiched between articles on a meeting of the creditors of a farmer in Boston and news on members of St Swithins Juvenile Parochial Branch having tea...

At a meeting called by S. Bainbridge, Esq. J.P., and Mr. W. Mortimer at the Monson Arms Hotel, on Thursday evening, there was a tolerably large attendance of persons interested in football.

Mr Sharpley Bainbridge was voted to the chair. After some discussion it was decided to establish a club, to be called the "City Football Club."

The following players gave in their names as willing to join the club:- Messrs. Trafford, Mason, White, Bowen, Morton, O. Barrett, K. A. Cousans, Tweed (Lindum), Thorpe, Harrison, Strawson, Andrews, Doncaster, Delaney, C. H. Newsum, Cannon, D. Clarke, Finnigan, E. Teesdale (Rovers), Smalley, Coupland and Brown (St. Nicholas).

The meeting was adjourned until next Thursday night, at eight o'clock, when a committee of management of the club will be appointed, rules adopted, and the subscription decided upon.