Match 40
March 9th 1965,
Carlisle.(a)
CARLISLE UNITED 2 (Carlin, Large)
EXETER CITY 1 (Curtis)
Tuesday March 9th 1965 at Carlisle.
Carlisle United:- Dean; Neil, Caldwell; McConnell, Passmoor, Harland; Blain, Evans, Large, Carlin, Simpson.
Exeter City:- Shearing; Smyth, Patrick; Mitchell, Harvey, Anderson; Welsh, Carter, Curtis, Hancock, Thorne.
Referee:- Mr E. Norman.
The official result of this game at Brunton Park was Carlisle 2-1 winners against Exeter City. Unofficially, but correctly, it should have been 2-2. For Curtis was given offside when he was off the field and a City goal was disallowed. Carlisle were a goal up in eight minutes, a header by Carlin being too well placed in the top corner for Shearing to reach.
Exeter's goal that never was came 17 minutes later. Welsh cracked a good ball low into the goalmouth and as Curtis dashed in to meet it Dean fell on the shot but fumbled it and could only push the ball away.
Carter was following up and he thumped it into the net, but referee Norman ruled "no goal" and gave Carlisle a free kick one yard from their goal-line.
Most people thought that it was for a foul on the goalkeeper. But afterwards the referee stated that it was for offside.
Yet Curtis, the man against whom the ruling was given, could not have been offside, for he had carried on running and was in the back of the net when Carter kicked the ball in, and therefore off the fieldand in no position to interfere with the play. It is just another of football's "hard luck stories," but it was especially hard on the City, who matched Carlisle in fight and spirit.
EXETER CITY 1 (Curtis)
Tuesday March 9th 1965 at Carlisle.
Carlisle United:- Dean; Neil, Caldwell; McConnell, Passmoor, Harland; Blain, Evans, Large, Carlin, Simpson.
Exeter City:- Shearing; Smyth, Patrick; Mitchell, Harvey, Anderson; Welsh, Carter, Curtis, Hancock, Thorne.
Referee:- Mr E. Norman.
The official result of this game at Brunton Park was Carlisle 2-1 winners against Exeter City. Unofficially, but correctly, it should have been 2-2. For Curtis was given offside when he was off the field and a City goal was disallowed. Carlisle were a goal up in eight minutes, a header by Carlin being too well placed in the top corner for Shearing to reach.
Exeter's goal that never was came 17 minutes later. Welsh cracked a good ball low into the goalmouth and as Curtis dashed in to meet it Dean fell on the shot but fumbled it and could only push the ball away.
Carter was following up and he thumped it into the net, but referee Norman ruled "no goal" and gave Carlisle a free kick one yard from their goal-line.
Most people thought that it was for a foul on the goalkeeper. But afterwards the referee stated that it was for offside.
Yet Curtis, the man against whom the ruling was given, could not have been offside, for he had carried on running and was in the back of the net when Carter kicked the ball in, and therefore off the fieldand in no position to interfere with the play. It is just another of football's "hard luck stories," but it was especially hard on the City, who matched Carlisle in fight and spirit.
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