THIS WAS DIVISION 4 SOCCER AT ITS WORST.

CITY AND COBBLERS BORE 6000 CROWD AT THE PARK.

Easter Monday April 3rd.

Exeter City 1
(Williams penalty)
Northampton Town  3
(Everitt, Edwards, Moran)

Played at St James's Park, attendance 5,903, gate £724.

Exeter City: Jones; Whitnall and MacDonald; Mitchell, Grant, and Harvey; Gordon, Rees, Williams, Carter, and Dale.

Northampton Town:- Coe; Phillips and Claypole; Branston, Gale, and Mills; Everitt, Brown, Edwards, Moran, and Lines.

Referee:- Mr G.W.Thorpe.
Linesmen: Messrs R.J.Ingram and S.A.Hibbs.

There was no resemblance whatever between Exeter City's team today and the City side which beat York on Saturday, yet it was exactly the same line-up and therefore capable of exactly the same sort of football. Exeter started with a few attacks that sliced up the tall Cobblers defence and took the lead with a penalty in the 11th minute. Four minutes later after a dreadful defensive mix-up in the Exeter goalmouth Everitt equalised, and from then on the game started to die an unnatural death.

Both sides tried to get a midfield grip that would command the game and neither was capable of doing it. In the second half the City could not even pass the ball from one man to another accurately over the space of a few yards. And Northampton's only saving grace was that they moved a little faster, made slightly fewer mistakes, and scored three goals. Altogether it was the very worst kind of Division 4 soccer, and the crowd of nearly six thousand could have been nothing else than well and truly bored, long before the end of it.