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Exeter City 3 Arlesey Town 0. FAT. Saturday 14 February 2004.

Referee: A Hendley

Att: 2541

FA Trophy: Fifth Round.

From the BBC Website

EXETER CITY 3 ARLESEY TOWN 0 Flack (20) Flack (54) Sheldon (86)

Exeter: Bittner, Hiley, Gaia, Todd, Cronin, Devine, Sheldon, Flack, Ampadu, Jeannin, Afful. Subs: Rice, Thomas, Moor, Moxey, Taylor.

Arlesey Town: Patching, Martin Young, Blackett, Tekell, Corbould, Thedosiou, Beevor, Midson, Harding, Gutimore, Mackail-Smith. Subs: Steve Young, Fontenelle, Griggs, Buckland, Pringle.

Two goals from Steve Flack sent Exeter City into the Quarter finals of the F.A. Trophy with a comfortable victory over Arlesey Town. Arlesley were unable to muster any serious threat, their forward play lacking the guile or strength to upset the Exeter defence. Gary Sheldon wrapped up the tie in the final minutes, sending home the healthy 2500 crowd dreaming of cup glory. A pleased Eamonn Dolan spoke to BBC Radio Devon after the game. He said: “As disappointed as I was last week – I’m pleased this week. Not a spectacular game – not a classic game but we really worked hard. “We smothered them and we gave them nothing – and that’s against a team that scored seven goals against Dagenham and Redbridge over two games”, added Dolan. “We’ve had a horrific week this week off the pitch. I’m proud of the way the directors have fought for this club and it was so important that the players do the same today. “We’re in the quarter finals of the F.A. Trophy and we’re one place outside the play off places – all things being equal it could be a very good finish to the season for us.”

Details

Date Time League Season Full Time
February 14, 2004 3:00 pm FA Trophy 2003/04 90'

Ground

St James Park, Exeter

Results

Club1st Half2nd HalfGoalsOutcome
Exeter City123Win
Arlesey Town000Loss

Exeter City

1James Bittner GK Goalkeeper
2Scott Hiley Defender
5Santos Gaia Defender
6Chris Todd Defender
8Glenn Cronin Midfielder
10Sean Devine 21 Forward
11Gareth Sheldon Forward
14Steve Flack Forward
19Kwame Ampadu 4 Midfielder
20Alex Jeannin Defender
22Les Afful 9 Midfielder
17Martin Rice GK Goalkeeper
4Martin Thomas 19 Midfielder
7Andy Taylor Midfielder
9Reinier Moor 22 Forward
21Dean Moxey 10 Defender

Manager: Eamonn Dolan

Yellow Cards
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Red Cards
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Goals
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