Match 04
1st September 1965
League Cup 1st Round
Colchester United (a)
WEDNESDAY 1st SEPTEMBER 1965.
FOOTBALL LEAGUE CUP
COLCHESTER 2
Kennon; Forbes, Hall; JonesLaughton, Trevis; Kaye, Aitchison, Stratton, Blackwood, Grice,
EXETER CITY 1
Shearing; Fulton, Peapell; Mitchell, Harvey, Anderson; Welsh, Curtis, McLean, Carter, Ley
Scorers
Colchester Stratton 2
Exeter City Curtis
Attendance 2,928
It was not because they had no Alan Banks in their team that Exeter City were shot out of the Football League Cup (first round), though it would not be fair to say that he was not missed, because Banks's peculiar goal-knack would have come in handy at one time or another. But no one could blame the man who played in Banks's position, the Irishman, Dermot Curtis.
Curtis worked exceptionally hard to prove himself in this, his first game of the season for the City "chiefs." He did everything he could to link up with McLean, and scored a good goal, one that should have turned the game in Exeter's favour. What failed the City was a defence that was labouring in low gear for the first half hour and gave away two goals in sixteen minutes. Both came from bad mistakes. In the eighth minute a ball was floated over from Colchester's left wing, nodded on to the City's far post, and Stratton nipped in to score with a well directed low shot from ten yards. This showed up the slackness in the City's covering, but they did not learn, and eight minutes after the first goal Stratton finished off the same sort of move with a scoring header. Exeter did warm up a bit in the second half and McLean scored but was given offside. Basically it all boils down to the fact that no team can afford to give away two goals as quickly as Exeter did. It put them in almost an impossible position with 70 minutes of the game still to go.
FOOTBALL LEAGUE CUP
COLCHESTER 2
Kennon; Forbes, Hall; JonesLaughton, Trevis; Kaye, Aitchison, Stratton, Blackwood, Grice,
EXETER CITY 1
Shearing; Fulton, Peapell; Mitchell, Harvey, Anderson; Welsh, Curtis, McLean, Carter, Ley
Scorers
Colchester Stratton 2
Exeter City Curtis
Attendance 2,928
It was not because they had no Alan Banks in their team that Exeter City were shot out of the Football League Cup (first round), though it would not be fair to say that he was not missed, because Banks's peculiar goal-knack would have come in handy at one time or another. But no one could blame the man who played in Banks's position, the Irishman, Dermot Curtis.
Curtis worked exceptionally hard to prove himself in this, his first game of the season for the City "chiefs." He did everything he could to link up with McLean, and scored a good goal, one that should have turned the game in Exeter's favour. What failed the City was a defence that was labouring in low gear for the first half hour and gave away two goals in sixteen minutes. Both came from bad mistakes. In the eighth minute a ball was floated over from Colchester's left wing, nodded on to the City's far post, and Stratton nipped in to score with a well directed low shot from ten yards. This showed up the slackness in the City's covering, but they did not learn, and eight minutes after the first goal Stratton finished off the same sort of move with a scoring header. Exeter did warm up a bit in the second half and McLean scored but was given offside. Basically it all boils down to the fact that no team can afford to give away two goals as quickly as Exeter did. It put them in almost an impossible position with 70 minutes of the game still to go.
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