Slough Town
1
O'Sullivan
Sutton United
0
FA Amateur Cup
Attendance: 2100
Slough Town are now 180 minutes from Wembley, thanks to a first-minute goal from Micky O'Sullivan in their Amateur Cup tie against Sutton United on Saturday. This marked the 32nd successive game in which Town have remained unbeaten, a wonderful record. The crowd was 2,000 plus, but the extremely blustery conditions prevented much good football being played by either side. Slough were always on top and in the second half, with the gale to help them, dominated play.
With Roger Day still unfit Tommy Lawrence played the same side as scored six goals against Windsor and Eton the previous week, which meant a place could not be found for Terry Reardon.
It was in the back division that Slough were again at their strongest. The crowd of 2,100 had not completely assembled when Slough went into the lead. Turl, who is fast becoming one of the best right backs in the amateur game, made a run down the field and crossed the ball into a forest of legs. It missed them all and found O'Sullivan unmarked to push home the easiest of chances.
Apart from a Sutton corner donated by a very casual D'Arcy in the 10th minute Slough did all the pressing but could not get through the final Sutton defensive barrier. The Sutton defenders gave no quarter and after a particularly nasty incident in the 20th minute left back Mears went into the book for a foul on Reid. Two minutes after this a very good low cross from Amos was cleared off the line by Peck for a corner but after that the first half produced little in the way of scoring chances.
The persistent Slough pressure caused still more hard tackling from the visitors' defence and Peck was booked by the very efficient Mr Bent for another in a series of fouls on Ritchie.
Slough started the second half in a rush and within minutes a wild scramble in the Sutton goalmouth ended when Thomas somehow turned the ball around for a corner. In the 61st Woffinden had the easiest of chances to equalise but fired straight at a well-positioned Wolstenholme. Four minutes later Amos was unlucky when he put in a fine shot on the turn that was saved by Thomas.
Within a minute Amos raced through after a loose ball, beat Thomas to it, but could not control the ball quickly enough and the Sutton keeper managed to throw himself back into the line of the shot to put the ball out for another corner.
With Roger Day still unfit Tommy Lawrence played the same side as scored six goals against Windsor and Eton the previous week, which meant a place could not be found for Terry Reardon.
It was in the back division that Slough were again at their strongest. The crowd of 2,100 had not completely assembled when Slough went into the lead. Turl, who is fast becoming one of the best right backs in the amateur game, made a run down the field and crossed the ball into a forest of legs. It missed them all and found O'Sullivan unmarked to push home the easiest of chances.
Apart from a Sutton corner donated by a very casual D'Arcy in the 10th minute Slough did all the pressing but could not get through the final Sutton defensive barrier. The Sutton defenders gave no quarter and after a particularly nasty incident in the 20th minute left back Mears went into the book for a foul on Reid. Two minutes after this a very good low cross from Amos was cleared off the line by Peck for a corner but after that the first half produced little in the way of scoring chances.
The persistent Slough pressure caused still more hard tackling from the visitors' defence and Peck was booked by the very efficient Mr Bent for another in a series of fouls on Ritchie.
Slough started the second half in a rush and within minutes a wild scramble in the Sutton goalmouth ended when Thomas somehow turned the ball around for a corner. In the 61st Woffinden had the easiest of chances to equalise but fired straight at a well-positioned Wolstenholme. Four minutes later Amos was unlucky when he put in a fine shot on the turn that was saved by Thomas.
Within a minute Amos raced through after a loose ball, beat Thomas to it, but could not control the ball quickly enough and the Sutton keeper managed to throw himself back into the line of the shot to put the ball out for another corner.
Slough Town Lineup
- 1 Ian Wolstenholme
- 2 Tim Turl
- 3 Ray Eaton
- 4 Keith Mead
- 5 Alf DArcy
- 6 Peter Cruse
- 7 Micky OSullivan
- 8 John Ritchie
- 9 Ian Reid
- 10 Tony Amos
- 11 Ray Hill