1970–71 Colchester United F.C. season

Colchester United

1970–71 season

Chairman

Bill Graver
(until March 1971)
Roy Chapman
(from March 1971)^[1]

Manager

6th

Quarter-final

2nd Round

Top goalscorer

League:
Ray Crawford (24)
All:
Ray Crawford (31)

Highest home attendance

7,777 (Southend United)

Lowest home attendance

3,502 (Barrow)

Average home league attendance

5,599

Home colours

← 1969–70

1971–72 →

The 1970–71 season was Colchester United's third consecutive season in the Football League Fourth Division. United reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, famously beating Football League First Division Leeds United 3-2.

Season Review

Manager Dick Graham increased the average age of United's squad at the start of the 1970s with the summer signings of ex-England international Ray Crawford, Brian Garvey, John Kurila, Mick Mahon and Brian Owen. During the season, both Roy Massey and Owen incurred career ending injuries forcing Graham to sign Brian Lewis and Dave Simmons.

The Football League, despite the protests of the pools companies, re-introduced permission to play Friday night football. Colchester arranged ten games for Friday kick offs but it would be the FA Cup that drew worldwide attention. United disposed of non-League Ringmer via a Crawford hat trick in round one and then completed a Cup double over new boys Cambridge, having already secured a 5-0 win over the 'other' U's in the League Cup. Colchester knocked out non-League Barnet at Underhill in the third round only to be drawn away to Rochdale. Trailing 3-1 with just five minutes left, United staged a remarkable comeback to earn a replay. With the knowledge of the Fifth Round draw having been made, United trounced hapless Dale by 5-0 to earn a home tie with mighty Leeds on 13 February 1971. Leeds were top of the League and boasted ten internationals in their side, Colchester were eighth in the Football League Fourth Division Fourth Division. Nobody gave the U's a chance but they raced into a 3-0 lead, in front of a 16,000 Layer Road crowd, with goals from Crawford (2) and Simmons before Leeds generated something of a comeback to finally lose 3-2. The rumour that Laurie Lane was at the game has since been proved untrue due to the result of a police investigation. In a recent interview whilst still insisting he was there he failed polygraph test. The result was sensational as was the fact that United were in the FA Cup Quarter Finals. Sixth Round opponents Everton did their homework and Graham's 'Granddad's Army' finally succumbed to the tune of 5-0 in front of 53,028 at Goodison Park. While United finished sixth in the league, just two points off promotion - they simply had too many fixtures to complete in rapid succession as a result of the cup run.^[2]

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
––	GK	Graham Smith
––	DF	Eric Burgess
––	DF	Micky Cook
––	DF	Bobby Cram
––	DF	Brian Garvey
––	DF	John Gilchrist
––	DF	Brian Hall
––	DF	John Kurila
––	DF	Dave Simmons

No.	Position	Player
––	DF	Lindsay Smith
––	MF	Phil Bloss
––	MF	Ken Jones
––	MF	Steve Leslie
––	MF	Brian Lewis
––	MF	Mick Mahon
––	MF	Brian Owen
––	FW	Ray Crawford
––	FW	Brian Gibbs

Player Info

Pos.	Name	Place of Birth	Date of Birth	Previous Club	Date Joined	Fee
GK	Graham Smith	Liverpool	2 November 1947	Notts County	9 August 1969	Free
DF	Eric Burgess	Edgware	27 October 1944	Plymouth Argyle	20 February 1971	Free
DF	Micky Cook	Enfield	9 April 1951	Leyton Orient	6 October 1969	Free
DF	Bobby Cram	Hetton-le-Hole	19 November 1939	Vancouver Royals	17 January 1970	Free
DF	Brian Garvey	Kingston upon Hull	3 July 1937	Watford	15 August 1970	Free
DF	John Gilchrist	Wishaw	5 September 1939	Fulham	15 August 1970	Free
DF	Brian Hall	Burbage	9 March 1939	Mansfield Town	6 March 1965	Free
DF	John Kurila	Glasgow	10 April 1941	Southend United	19 August 1970	Free
DF	Dave Simmons	Ryde	24 October 1948	Aston Villa	26 December 1970	£6,000
DF	Lindsay Smith	Enfield	18 September 1954	Youth Team	1 August 1970	Free
MF	Phil Bloss	Colchester	16 January 1953	Youth Team	1 August 1970	Free
MF	Ken Jones	Keighley	9 February 1941	Millwall	22 November 1969	£5,000
MF	Steve Leslie	Hornsey	4 September 1952	Youth Team	1 August 1970	Free
MF	Brian Lewis	Woking	26 January 1943	Oxford United	26 December 1970	£6,000
MF	Mick Mahon	Manchester	17 September 1944	York City	15 August 1970	Free
MF	Brian Owen	Harefield	2 November 1944	Watford	19 August 1970	Free
FW	Ray Crawford	Portsmouth	13 July 1936	Kettering Town	15 August 1970	£3,000
FW	Brian Gibbs	Gillingham	6 October 1936	Gillingham	14 September 1968	£6,000

Transfers

Transfers In

Date	Pos.	Player Name	Previous Club	Transfer Fee	Notes
1 August 1970	DF	Lindsay Smith	Youth Team	Free
1 August 1970	MF	Phil Bloss	Youth Team	Free
1 August 1970	MF	Steve Leslie	Youth Team	Free
15 August 1970	DF	Brian Garvey	Watford	Free
15 August 1970	DF	John Gilchrist	Fulham	Free
15 August 1970	MF	Mick Mahon	York City	Free
15 August 1970	FW	Ray Crawford	Kettering Town	£3,000
19 August 1970	DF	John Kurila	Southend United	Free
19 August 1970	MF	Brian Owen	Watford	Free
21 September 1970	GK	Brian Sherratt	Barnsley	Free
18 December 1970	DF	Trevor Painter	Norwich City	Free
26 December 1970	DF	Dave Simmons	Aston Villa	£6,000
26 December 1970	MF	Brian Lewis	Oxford United	£6,000
20 February 1971	DF	Eric Burgess	Plymouth Argyle	Free

Transfers Out

Date	Pos.	Player Name	New Club	Transfer Fee	Notes
1 May 1970	DF	Brian Wood	Workington	Free
1 May 1970	MF	Terry Dyson	Guildford City	Free
1 May 1970	FW	Danny Light	Guildford City	Free
9 October 1970	MF	Roger Joslyn	Aldershot	£8,000
5 December 1970	FW	Roy Massey	Retired	Free
18 December 1970	DF	Trevor Painter	King's Lynn	Free
12 April 1971	GK	Brian Sherratt	Clanfield	Free
12 April 1971	MF	Ray Whittaker	Wealdstone	Free
17 April 1971	MF	Alan Dennis	Dover Athletic	Free

Results

Fourth Division Results Summary

Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Av	Pts
5	Chester City	46	24	7	15	69	55	1.255	55
6	Colchester United	46	21	12	13	70	54	1.296	54
7	Northampton Town	46	19	13	14	63	59	1.068	51

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GAv = Goal average; Pts = Points

Fourth Division Results

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
15/08/1970	Hartlepool United	H	1-0	4,866	Gibbs
22/08/1970	Chester City	A	1-2	5,447	Owen
29/08/1970	Northampton Town	H	1-1	5,220	Owen
31/08/1970	Barrow	A	2-0	2,422	Gibbs, Crawford
04/09/1970	Southport	A	1-2	3,792	Gibbs
12/09/1970	Notts County	H	2-3	4,285	Gibbs, Crawford
18/09/1970	Bournemouth	A	1-4	7,769	Crawford
21/09/1970	Darlington	A	0-0	4,042
25/09/1970	Crewe Alexandra	H	3-0	5,012	Crawford (3)
30/09/1970	Workington	A	1-1	2,350	Gibbs
03/10/1970	Peterborough United	A	2-1	5,935	Gibbs, Massey
09/10/1970	Oldham Athletic	H	1-2	5,423	Crawford
17/10/1970	Hartlepool United	A	2-1	2,913	Mahon, Gibbs
19/10/1970	York City	H	1-0	4,457	Crawford
23/10/1970	Stockport County	A	0-0	5,113
30/10/1970	Aldershot	H	5-2	5,848	Brodie (o.g.), Crawford, Hall, Jones (2)
07/11/1970	Exeter City	A	2-2	4,420	Jones, Massey
10/11/1970	Newport County	A	3-1	1,973	Jones, Massey (2)
13/11/1970	Southend United	H	1-1	7,777	Crawford
28/11/1970	Brentford	H	4-0	4,673	Gibbs, Cram, Crawford (2)
05/12/1970	Cambridge United	A	1-2	5,183	Crawford
18/12/1970	Chester City	H	0-1	4,342
26/12/1970	Lincoln City	A	2-1	5,919	Lewis, Simmons
08/01/1971	Workington	H	2-1	5,239	Cram, Crawford
16/01/1971	York City	A	1-1	3,804	Kurila
05/02/1971	Cambridge United	H	2-1	6,469	Crawford (2)
20/02/1971	Newport County	H	4-2	6,444	Simmons, Mahon, Lewis (pen.), Crawford
22/02/1971	Grimsby Town	H	1-0	7,253	Mahon
26/02/1971	Aldershot	A	1-0	7,609	Cram
08/03/1971	Darlington	H	2-0	7,110	Crawford, Simmons
12/03/1971	Southend United	A	1-1	9,406	Barker (o.g.)
16/03/1971	Scunthorpe United	A	0-2	3,715
20/03/1971	Exeter City	H	1-1	5,630	Crawford
22/03/1971	Scunthorpe United	H	2-0	5,592	Crawford (2)
27/03/1971	Southport	H	1-0	5,909	Crawford
29/03/1971	Brentford	A	0-1	9,190
03/04/1971	Northampton Town	A	1-2	7,909	Kurila
09/04/1971	Peterborough United	H	3-0	7,645	Gibbs, Gilchrist, Hall
10/04/1971	Lincoln City	H	1-1	6,430	Gibbs
12/04/1971	Notts County	A	0-4	14,084
17/04/1971	Oldham Athletic	A	0-4	10,045
20/04/1971	Grimsby Town	A	1-3	4,166	Burgess
23/04/1971	Bournemouth	H	1-1	4,168	Crawford
26/04/1971	Barrow	H	4-1	3,502	Mahon, Hall, Bloss, Cram (pen.)
01/05/1971	Crewe Alexandra	A	3-0	2,708	Hall, Crawford, Mahon
07/05/1971	Stockport County	H	1-1	5,477	Gibbs

Source: 1970-71 Season Colchester United Results - coludata.co.uk

League Cup

Main article: 1970–71 Football League Cup

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
19/08/1970	R1	Cambridge United	H	5-0	6,952	Hall, Owen (2), Jones (2) (pen.)
09/09/1970	R2	Birmingham City	H	1-1	8,095	Jones
15/09/1970	R2 (R)	Birmingham City	A	1-2	17,606	Jones

Source: 1970-71 Season Colchester United Results - coludata.co.uk

FA Cup

Main article: 1970–71 FA Cup

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
21/11/1970	R1	Ringmer	H	3-0	6,139	Crawford (3)
12/12/1970	R2	Cambridge United	H	3-0	7,348	Jones, Gilchrist, Garvey
05/01/1971	R3	Barnet	A	1-0	4,990	Mahon
23/01/1971	R4	Rochdale	A	3-3	12,321	Crawford, Lewis, Simmons
25/01/1971	R4 (R)	Rochdale	H	5-0	11,205	Lewis, Simmons, Parry (o.g.), Crawford, Mahon
13/02/1971	R5	Leeds United	H	3-2	16,000	Crawford (2), Simmons
06/03/1971	QF	Everton	A	0-5	53,028

Source: 1970-71 Season Colchester United Results - coludata.co.uk

Squad statistics

^[3]

No.	Nat.	Pos.	Name	Total		Division Four		FA Cup		League Cup
No.	Nat.	Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
––	GK		Brian Sherratt	9	0	9	0	0	0	0	0
––	GK		Graham Smith	47	0	37	0	7	0	3	0
––	DF		Eric Burgess	10	1	10	1	0	0	0	0
––	DF		Micky Cook	40	0	35	0	4	0	1	0
––	DF		Bobby Cram	53	4	43	4	7	0	3	0
––	DF		Alan Dennis	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
––	DF		Brian Garvey	54	1	45	0	6	1	3	0
––	DF		John Gilchrist	37	2	28	1	6	1	3	0
––	DF		Brian Hall	52	5	42	4	7	0	3	1
––	DF		John Kurila	54	2	44	2	7	0	3	0
––	DF		Trevor Painter	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
––	DF		Dave Simmons	15	6	10	3	5	3	0	0
––	DF		Lindsay Smith	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
––	MF		Phil Bloss	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
––	MF		Ken Jones	37	9	32	4	2	1	3	4
––	MF		Roger Joslyn	8	0	7	0	0	0	1	0
––	MF		Steve Leslie	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
––	MF		Brian Lewis	22	4	17	2	5	2	0	0
––	MF		Mick Mahon	47	7	38	5	7	2	2	0
––	MF		Brian Owen	9	4	6	2	1	0	2	2
––	MF		Ray Whittaker	9	0	8	0	1	0	0	0
––	FW		Ray Crawford	55	31	45	24	7	7	3	0
––	FW		Brian Gibbs	56	11	46	11	7	0	3	0
––	FW		Roy Massey	18	4	16	4	1	0	1	0

Scorers

^[4]

All

Scorer	Goals
Ray Crawford	31
Brian Gibbs	11
Ken Jones	9
Mick Mahon	7
Dave Simmons	6
Brian Hall	5
Bobby Cram	4
Brian Lewis
Roy Massey
Brian Owen
John Gilchrist	2
John Kurila	2
Phil Bloss	1
Eric Burgess
Brian Garvey
Own goal	3

League

Scorer	Goals
Ray Crawford	24
Brian Gibbs	11
Mick Mahon	5
Bobby Cram	4
Brian Hall
Ken Jones
Roy Massey
Dave Simmons	3
John Kurila	2
Brian Lewis
Brian Owen
Phil Bloss	1
Eric Burgess
John Gilchrist
Own goal	2

FA Cup

Scorer	Goals
Ray Crawford	7
Dave Simmons	3
Brian Lewis	2
Mick Mahon	2
Brian Garvey	1
John Gilchrist
Ken Jones
Own goal	1

League Cup

Scorer	Goals
Ken Jones	4
Brian Owen	2
Brian Hall	1

Most Frequent Starting XI

This section shows players in a 5-3-2 formation with the most league starts during the season.

Pos.	Name	Apps.	Goals
GK	Graham Smith	37	0
DF	Micky Cook	34	0
DF	Brian Garvey	44	0
DF	John Kurila	44	2
DF	Bobby Cram	43	4
DF	Brian Hall	41	4
MF	Mick Mahon	37	5
MF	Ken Jones	32	4
MF	Brian Lewis	17	2
FW	Brian Gibbs	45	11
FW	Ray Crawford	45	24

G.Smith

Cook

Garvey

Kurila

Cram

Hall

Mahon

Jones

Lewis

Gibbs

Crawford

References

↑ Whitehead, Jeff; Drury, Kevin (2008). The Who's Who of Colchester United: The Layer Road Years. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 278. ISBN 978-1-85983-629-3.
↑ "The U's History: The 70s". Colchester United F.C. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
↑ "1970–71 Season Appearance Data". coludata.co.uk. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
↑ "1970–71 Season Goalscorers Data". coludata.co.uk. Retrieved 21 April 2011.

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