WEDNESDAY 9th APRIL 1969.

PLUMBER JOHN HITS TWO.

EXETER CITY 5 YORK CITY O

Shearing; Smyth, Blain; Parker, Newman, Curtis; Corr, Binney, Wingate, Mitten, Pleat

Scorers:
Exeter Mitten 2, Wingate 2, Binney.

Attendance: 5,083,

It will be business as usual for Exeter City amateur centre forward John Wingate. He will be back at his plumbing job tomorrow, but in this game he found two leaks in the York City defence, for he scored his first League goals in City's runaway victory, Wingate scored twice in the last 12 minutes, The St James' Park faithful stood and applauded, John Newman raced almost the full length of the pitch to congratulate him, his first goals in 10 consecutive appearances, The game started poorly with scrappy football being produced by both sides. Once Exeter had scored they stamped their authority on the game and moved much more fluently, York were not a good side and Exeter were hardly troubled. Indeed City could have won by a bigger margin Wingate, Dave Pleat and John Corr all missed good chances, The first of City's goals came in the 32nd minute when John Mitten scored with a superb volley from about 15 yards. They had to wait until the 55th minute for the next goal and again it was Mitten with a penalty, after a shot from Graham Parker had been handled, In the 78th minute a Pleat pass was headed into the net by Wingate and seven minutes later he scored again after receiving a pass from Corr, Three minutes from the end a Pleat-Corr combination ended with Fred Binney scoring witha fine header.

Match Summary 

This was the stuff to give the troops! But what a contrast between the first half and the second! Before the interval the City looked as poor as the visitors and we thought we were in for a dull evening. It was not until John Mitten hit a fine goal with a full volley in the 33rd minute that some of the gloom was lifted and even then we had no idea what lay in store. We were a much livelier combination after the interval and with York unable to make any impression on our rearguard it was obvious that we had bagged both points when John Mitten got our second goal from the penalty spot after 50 minutes. But instead of resting on their laurels as so many Exeter teams have done in the past when two goals ahead, this side really went to town, improving all the way along the line, until John Wingate got the biggest cheer of the evening by breaking his "duck" and get ting his first League goal. Within a few minutes he had scored his second, and with the visitors completely shattered Fred Binney nipped in to make it five.