Wycombe and Lincoln quotes - Talk

Following Saturday’s 2-2 draw at Adams Park, I had a chat with several players from the both camps as well as the managers.

Goalscorer Mustapha Carayol, 20, filled me in on his background and aspirations after the game and said:

“My family left Gambia to live in Paris when I was six. My mum was taking her Masters in French and is now a translator. She’s a smart lady and one of many intellectuals in my family, but I’m just happy playing football.”

And Carayol is keen to play for his country of birth and gain international experience, he revealed:

“Gambia have already asked me to play for them, but the club weren’t given the 14 days notice they needed. I’d be honoured to be asked again and if we can build on the way we’ve started under the new gaffer here, they might give me another chance.”

Full back Gavin Hoyte – brother of Boro defender Justin and son of British sprinter Wendy – found himself making the loan move from Arsenal to Lincoln on Friday and explained:

“As I live in London it was pointless going up to Lincoln and then coming down again on the coach, so I was told to get to Wycombe for one o’clock which is the first time I met any of my team mates. They are a great bunch of lads though and made me feel part of the team straight away.”

Lincoln’s new boss Steve Tilson was pleased with the point – the second in to games since he took over from Chris Sutton – and said:

“It was a very open game from two teams trying to win it to be honest. Even once we’d scored the second goal I felt that we probably looked the side who could go on and win it. It was a good game of football.

I spoke to Brushy (coach Paul Brush) and said that the pleasing thing for me was that we are labeled as a side who don’t score many goals – which is true – but we’ve gone and scored two goals away from home and probably could have scored three or four.

It was the worst start possible. Away from home against a decent side you want to keep the first ten minutes as tight as possible and so to go 1-0 down wasn’t the greatest of starts. To be fair to the lads though they showed character and spirit to get us back into the game.”

Wycome goalscorer Kevin Betsy has asked for the home fans to stick with the team. He said:

“When things go against us we all need to pull together. I know it can be frustrating for the fans, but we need them with us.”

Boss Gary Waddock said:

“We have done really well away from home but at the moment it is just not happening for us at home," said Waddock. "We have got to be better at breaking teams down because teams come here with a game plan. "As a home side the emphasis is on us but I am confident it will turn for us here because we want this to be a difficult place to come to. But credit where credit is due, we must give credit to Lincoln. We have done well to get a point and you must never underestimate a point.

"First half we did reasonably well, we scored an early goal but in the second half that was nowhere near what we were looking for. We could have quite easily come away from this with a 3-2 defeat. Our back four dropped too deep and we weren't able to get close enough to them in the middle of the park and the game got stretched and we let them back into the game."