EXETER CITY'S FAILING STILL REMAINS.

GOOD MIDFIELD PLAY OFFSET BY LACK OF FINISH.

Tuesday September 6th 1960.

DONCASTER ROVERS  2 (Leighton 2) EXETER CITY (Harrison) 1

Played at Belle-vue, attendance 5,121.

Doncaster Rovers:- Nimmo; Makepeace and Curtis; Haigh, Lunn, and Staton; Fernie, Leighton, Chappell, Broadbent, and Walker.

Exeter City:- Lobbett; Whitnall and MacDonald; Mitchell, Harvey, and Thompson; Harrison, Rees, Bennett, Wilkinson, and Dale.

Referee: Mr A.W.Sparling of Grimsby.

Doncaster Rovers had a tremendous fight on their hands to secure their first victory of the season, and Exeter came very near to gaining the spoils. Indeed, the City deserved at least a point, and they might have won both if their attack had known how to apply finish to impressive mid-field play. When Leighton scored his second goal, in the 44th minute, the home team, for reasons best known to themselves, decided, and wrongly, that defence was the best form of attack, and at the time when it was vitally necessary for them to make an all-out effort to add to their slender lead of 2-1 to make victory certain. The crowd therefore had to watch the sorry spectacle of no fewer than three home forwards in their own penalty area trying to stem the continuous City attacks which often built up from the full back positions. It was touch and go till the end but once again Exeter lost the points through their inability to finish.