Off to: Lincoln

Mossley's tour of the country continues this Saturday as they make their way to Ashley Avenue, home of Lincoln United for their third successive away game.

Yes, it's a trip to the 'big-ish' city for the Lilywhite's, some of whom are taking the opportunity to spend two days soaking up the sights, sounds and alcohol of the cathedral city. The cathedral itself is probably the biggest tourist attraction Lincoln has to offer, probably even more so now since part of the Da Vinci Code was filmed there. Fingers crossed that the match is a lot less mind numbingly boring than that waste of celluloid and two hours of my life. Or indeed, this preview.

Lincoln also has the first Oxfam charity store to offer customers a personal shopper. So if you can't quite find that jigsaw which has eight missing pieces or an item of clothing with its own peculiar aromatic bouquet, you can now call on the services of someone who's trained to help.

This game will be the second league meeting of the season between the two sides and the third overall. At the beginning of September a reasonably comfortable 2 - 1 win saw United head back to Lincolnshire with three points. Their return to Seel Park seven weeks later for an FA Trophy tie wasn't as happy an occasion for them as Mossley proceeded to hammer five goals past their, at the time, miserly defence; the visitors managing a very late consolation goal in a superb 5 - 1 victory for Mossley.

Lincoln United have been something of an enigma this season. They've picked up some good wins (they recently came away from Burscough with three points) but that's been balanced out by some heavy defeats and an ongoing inability to stick the ball in the back of the net with any regularity - they're currently averaging just 0.8 goals per game in the league.

There form over the last six games has been the very definition of average having won, lost and drawn two games whilst scoring and conceding eight. Mossley on the other hand have managed three points out of the last six games, though those points came against a team in a not to dissimilar position to Lincoln.

Prediction: I know that some of you think it's a load of piffle but as I keep on saying: Mossley, this season, are playing better away from home. And with this in mind I think that Lincoln is a place where Mossley can get back to winning ways.