I'm not actually certain that he played a competitive game for us......if so it was only one or two.
My recollections are that he came with a good reputation & did quite well for us pre-season, but that he had an injury which he wasn't recovered from & came to the conclusion that he couldn't carry on playing.
This may be wildly inaccurate!
The Cult will reveal all later today!
Brian,
Details of this character's transitory tenure at Moss Lane have proved difficult to unearth.
He arrived during the 1997/98 pre-season, in the wake of our first relegation from the Conference.
I have a record of him wearing the No. 7 shirt for Alty in a 3-0 friendly defeat against a Manchester United XI at Moss Lane on Friday, 8th August 1997, during which he was replaced by the diminutive Steve Carroll.
Incidentally, the Old Trafford team's line-up on that particular evening included Danny Higginbotham; Ben Thornley and a certain
Michael Twiss.
Lampkin definitely never registered an appearance for Alty in a competitive fixture.
I have been unable to establish the reason(s) for his departure but I suspect that your theory is correct.