Exeter City 1 Derby County 3. 

Wednesday 22 September 1993.

Referee: Roger Milford

Att: 5634

Football League Cup 2nd round 1st leg.

Exeter City lose 3-1 at the Park to Derby County in the second round, first leg of the Coca Cola Cup before an attendance of 5,634. Stuart Storer nets a superb goal for the Grecians in the first half, as the team more than hold their own against a Derby side containing several players worth over A £1 million each.

A large scale pitch invasion takes place at the end of the game by angry fans demonstrating their support for manager Alan Ball and the Freddie Starr takeover.

City team: Fox, Minett, Robinson, Bailey, Daniels, Whiston, Storer, Coughlin, Jepson, Ross, Wigley (Worthington).

Derby team: Taylor, Charles, Forsyth, Kuhl, Short, Wassall, Pembridge, Williams, Kitson, Gabbiadini, Simpson.

2nd Match Report from Express and Echo 

Rams have last laugh

CITY 1 DERBY 3

The Coca-Cola Cup

ALAN BALL admitted he'll be haunted by the goals that are set to end Exeter City's dreams of a lengthy Coca-Cola Cup run at the second round stage. Defensive errors allowed visiting big- spenders Derby County to carry a 3-1 lead into the second leg of the tie at the Baseball Ground in a fortnight. And all after Ball's outfit, who had boasted a five-match unbeaten run, had dominated the opening third of the contest and seized the initiative through Stuart Storer's stunning 13th minute strike.
"We were awful in the second-half," grimaced Ball. "We made basic mistakes and were rightly punished for them.

"We were the better side for the first half an hour, went 1-0 up and should have gone fur- ther in front. Then we gave away a silly goal goals like that were haunting me a few weeks ago."

Paul Kitson capitalised to level just before the interval, another rearguard mishap allowed Paul Simpson to thrust the Division 1 visitors into the driving seat and Marco Gabbiadini gratefully took advan- tage of further Exeter benevolence late on. "I was very disappointed with my back four," admitted Ball. "We have given our- selves a mountain to climb.'