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another goal. At the other end Minehead’s John<br />
Macey also had a busy evening in goal and<br />
produced two finger tip saves to keep out headers<br />
from Jack Bentley and John Davies.<br />
Too often the quick tackling of<br />
Minehead’s midfield hustled Telford into errors<br />
which took them out of their stride as a side which<br />
seemingly needed more time to play their game.<br />
The number of times that Telford’s Bentley and<br />
World Cup star Geoff Hurst were caught off-side<br />
underlined the home team’s sharper reading of<br />
a fast match.<br />
For Telford Fred Kemp was put through<br />
by Hurst in the first half, but his shot cannoned<br />
off Macey’s body as the home keeper came off<br />
his line. Fifteen minutes from the end Telford’s<br />
second half substitute Ken Draycott missed a<br />
great chance for an equaliser when he ballooned<br />
the ball over the Minehead crossbar with only<br />
Macey to beat.<br />
With this success which took Minehead<br />
into the top half of the Southern League table it<br />
was another good all round performance with the<br />
quick-silver Jenkins again stealing the honours<br />
with his devastating change of pace. Twice in the<br />
final moments he went near to scoring from long<br />
runs.<br />
Attendance - 592<br />
SHAKY<br />
MINEHEAD<br />
HOLD ON IN CUP<br />
FALMOUTH TOWN 1 MINEHEAD 1<br />
Minehead must tighten up at the back if<br />
they are to win Monday evening’s replay and<br />
march into the first round proper for the second<br />
time in the club’s history.<br />
Their defence crumbled in the last 25<br />
minutes of Saturday’s tie and only poor finishing<br />
let them off the hook. Until Stuart Brace scored<br />
Falmouth’s spectacular equaliser in the 65th<br />
minute Bob Boyd’s defence was cool and well<br />
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Bobby Brown whose goal<br />
opened the scoring in he FA Cup<br />
4th Qual Round tie at Falmouth.<br />
organised and looked capable of holding out<br />
comfortably. Falmouth’s Joe Scott was then<br />
off target with free headers and the same<br />
player shot wide from a defence splitting<br />
through ball from Paul Horrocks. Norman<br />
Ashe and Richard Francis also found their way<br />
through a hitherto solid Minehead rearguard<br />
and suddenly goalkeeper John Macey was a<br />
busy man.<br />
The first half saw the same pattern<br />
only in reverse with Minehead’s Andy Leitch<br />
a tower of strength, causing Falmouth<br />
enormous problems in the air. Jimmy Jenkins<br />
complemented Leitch well on the ground, but<br />
both faded from the game in the second half.<br />
In midfield Bobby Brown, Brian Durbin and<br />
Micky Burns played stylishly in the first half,<br />
but they also surrendered their supremacy<br />
later.<br />
Minehead emphasised their early<br />
supremacy with a goal by captain Bobby<br />
Brown, who headed home a Derek Bryant<br />
cross after 21 minutes. The winners of<br />
Monday’s replay will play Fourth Division<br />
Swansea in the First Round Proper.
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