Lincoln City have announced that they will play Arsenal in a pre-season friendly at Sincil Bank on 20 July.

The match will form part of the Imps' 125th anniversary celebrations.

As Woolwich Arsenal the Gunners were the first Football League visitors to Sincil Bank in September 1895, after Lincoln moved there from John O'Gaunts.

Chairman Steff Wright told BBC Radio Lincolnshire: "As part of our celebrations we wanted an appropriate line-up for our pre-season."

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