SWINDON V SOUTHAMPTON

8th October 1986

Copy from Paul Plowman from the Swindon Town programme of 8th October 2016.

Facing a three-goal first leg deficit against top flight
Saints, Town started off like a train. They forced
four corners in the first six minutes – on their way
to an impressive tally of 16 on the night. It took the
visitors 87 minutes to force their only one!
Swindon should have pulled a goal back just 17
minutes tn after Mark Wright had upended big Dave
Bamber in the box. Chris Kamara ‘s penalty was
placed wide of Shilton, but unfortunately also wide of
the upright.
Kamara beat the keeper again on the half hour when
his fierce shot went closer than the spot kick, but
glanced off the same post to safety,
At half-time, Lou Macari switched from the usual 4-3-
3 to a 6. -2 -4 formation, Centre-back Tim Parkin had to
go off with a rib injury, Dave Hockaday plugging the
gap and Bryan Wade coming on up front.
However it was more of the same from Town,

with Kamara stinging Shilton’s palms in the opening
minute of the half before the England keeper clawed
away a Bamber effort just after the hour: A minute
later. Wade was denied when his shot was deflected
past Shilton, but Gerry Forrest cleared off the Line,
With twenty minutes to go, the visitors had another
amazing escape, Shilton was beaten again when
a Bamber header thudded against the bar. The ball
rebounding to Wade who smashed it back in, only to
see it rebound off the legs of the fortunate Forrest
once more,

But the Town tidal wave just kept coming towards
Shilton, who somehow got a touch on a shot from
Bamber from point blank range three minutes later,
Steve White came on for Peter Coyne with ten
minutes left, and it was soon his turn to terrorise the
Saints defence and his shot on the run flew past the
keeper, only to thump against the underside of the
bar and clear,
The visitors· only effort of note came just prior to that
when Colin Clarke forced Fraser Digby to save,
It was said that the Town stopper had so little to do he
should have been charged for admission! Lou Macai
summed up the night’s events by calling it ‘a nill-nill
annihilation’ .
STFC: Digby, Ramsey, Hockaday, Kamara , Parkin
{Wade}, Calderwood. Jones. Gilligan. Coyne {White}
Bamber, Barnard
ATT, 9,453

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