City v Stoke
March 9th 1967 

Friendly at St James's Park, floodlights, kick off 7.30. There was only one disappointment connected with this friendly game in which Exeter City made a draw with one of the leading teams in the First Division, and that was the attendance, only a crowd of just below 4,000 bothering to turn up. But it was a cold, blustery night, with an ever-present threat of rain. The Stoke side included some famous names of football, including the one of Maurice Setters, the man who started his professional career with the Grecians 13 years ago. He was made captain for this match, and played his part in a clever Stoke side that kept the crowd happy with their fine football.

Exeter City: Snout; Enbury, Ley; Wilkinson, Harford, Thompson; Keeley, Elliott, Ryan, Blain, Godfrey.

Stoke City: Shardlow; Palmer, Skeels; Setters, Bloor, Allen; Vernon, Eastham, Dobing, Mahoney, Burrows.

The Potteries team, who wore the old Exeter City colours of red and white stripes and navy shorts, played some clever moves on the rain soaked pitch, and Eastham, the English international, demonstrated some of his delicate footwork, even when it seemed impossible to find a way through the packed Exeter defence.

Vernon scored the first goal of the match when he flicked the ball neatly past Smout from Eastham's pin-point pass. Keeley levelled the score from the penalty spot after Setters had pushed Godfrey in the back.

Burrows in the second half put Stoke ahead, following a defensive mistake by Harford, but Elliott during a spell of good football by Exeter got the City's second equaliser.

Exeter City 2 Stoke City 2.