Marconi Instruments Reserves 3 Sun Sports Reserves 3              1968/69             HCL Div One

Mystery of a missing lens!

Football is often held up for injuries or loss of the ball, but it is rare for two teams to stop play and with spectators search for a missing contact lens.
This is exactly what happened at the Marconi Instruments' ground in Wednesday's Herts County League Division One match when one of the Marconi Reserves' players told the referee he had lost a lens.
Play was held up for four minutes while everyone searched without success.
The lens was eventually found - and picked up intact at the end of the match by the man who lost it!
As for the game, Sun looked set to take two points and so complete a double when they led 3-1.
Marconi, however, responded to the challenge and forced a draw.
Marconi's late arrival shortened the game to 40 minutes each way.
After 16 minutes Sun took the lead when Peter Nicholson converted with a low shot.
Just before the interval Tony Fowler equalised for Marconi.
Two goals from Don Blackett enabled Sun to take a commanding lead, but Fowler and Tony Long - the latter direct from a corner two minutes from time  - levelled the score.
The hold up for the "contact lens mystery" was during the second half.