SATURDAY 22nd MARCH 1969.

BINNEY SKIPS IN TO GIVE EXETER THE POINTS.

BRENTFORD 0.

Phillips; Jones, Renwick; Richardson, Gelson, Nelmes; Dobson, Ross, Terry, Fenton, Mansley.

EXETER CITY 1
Shearing; Smyth, Blain; Parker, Sharples, Newman; Pleat, Binney, Wingate, Curtis,
Whatling.

Scorer
Exeter : Binney.

Attendance: 5,240,

A goal after just an hours play earned Exeter City two badly needed points at BrentfordCity had spent the entire first half defending desparately and giving away an astonishing 20 corners in the process But they somehow always managed to look dangerous in their spasmodic attacksThe goal was scored by Fred Binney following a long pass into the Brentford penalty area, City nearly went two goals up when a tremendous kick by Dermot Curtis hit a post from 30 yards. Binney had the ball in the net again after 75 minutes, the referee gave a goal but then changed his mind when a linesman signalled that the player had handled, City had begun the match in a very generous wood, presenting Brentford with a net full of chances which the London club failked to snap up.. Only once did Brentford look like scoring and that was from an indirect free kick from 12 yards, The entire City team lined up on the goalline and the kick was headed over the bar by Graham Parker, Minutes later John Wingate rounded Brentford's goalkeeper and pushed the ball against the base of the post,
Match Summary 

Thanks to the strength of our rear guard, which had to withstand a great deal of Brentford pressure, and to the opportunism of Fred Binney who scored our goal, we obtained what was only our third win in the last 11 visits to Brentford. Fred Binney got his goal in the 65th minute when he moved in position to accept a free-kick from John Newman and then drew the Brentford goalkeeper before shooting in. David Pleat also had the ball in the Brentford net but this one was disallowed. John Wingate hit the framework with one of his efforts, but our scoring chances were few and far between, while Brent ford were dictating the mid-field play for long periods.

SUNDAY 23rd MARCH 1969.

A KEEN CITY SUPPORTER.

Meet a man who has missed only three first team matches at St James' Park in just over 20 years, He is 42 year old Russell Ham of College Avenue, Exeter. Since 1948 he has been a regular City supporter and up until just a week ago he had an even better record. Because two of those three missed games were against Newport County 10 days ago, and Wrexham, His other miss was when City beat Aldershot thanks to a Graham Rees goal several seasons ago,

FRED BINNEY TOO HOT TO HOLD.

What now for 'Bang-em In Binney? Young Fred's five league goals in a week have set the City supporters talking, Exeter should have bought Binney from Torquay not begged him on loan, This could have been possible a few weeks ago when United vere conditioned to selling the striker who had scored 64 goals for the reserves without ever making an impression on his occasional appearance in the League side. Torquay might have taken something under £2,000 on a hire purchase arrangement to suit Exeter's convenience, Alas that is not the case now, The more often eager Fred scores in his tireless chase of every ball in sight, the higher his value must come. That is a cold hard fact of life, So it seems that City have missed' the Binney, boat, unless they can raise a lot of money to buy their new favourite At the rate he is going Fred will have as big an Exeter fan club as Ted Calland of yesteryear.