Tudor Corinthians 0 Sun Sports 3 1970/71 Herts Intermediate Cup
Two goal spell KO's Tudors
Weakened Tudor Corinthians were no match for a well drilled Sun Sports side in Saturday's Herts Intermediate Cup tie at Baldwins Lane.
Two goals in two minutes virtually put paid to Tudors who, apart from a few short spells in the second half, were completely out of touch and lacking in determination.
In the first half especially, the home side. who crushed Sun 4-1 in a league match this season, seemed unable to forage or scheme with any cohesion or aggression despite the promptings of Mike Benning and Mick Conroy.
For Sun the menacing Graham Seabrook and Neil Hartburn posed a constant threat to Tudor's defence.
Winger Hartburn had an early exit from the game.
He fell in a tackle in the 33rd minute and was taken to hospital with a suspected broken shoulder - but only after he had been prominent in giving Sun a 2-0 lead.
Sun's opening goal came after 15 minutes and began with an unintentional sliced ball from Ken Littleboy among the right wing to Hartburn.
The winger crossed a high ball into the area where Seabrook headed home a perfect goal.
Two minutes later, Sun struck again with Hartburn again in the picture.
He picked up a loose ball on the right, cut inside a hesitant Corinthians defence and swept the ball into the top corner of the net.
After this reversal, Tudors seemed unable to get into the game and rarely threatened the strong tackling Sun defence.
The visitors stormed into the second half and with constant pressure forced a third goal.
It came when Les Wickenden was forced into a hasty clearance cum-back-pass to his goalkeeper Roger Beament, who could only palm the ball into the net.
Shortly after this, Dave Price substituted for Trevor Clements and within the space of 10 minutes had sent more dangerous crosses into the Sun penalty area than had been seen in the entire match.
But Sun were in no mood to give away late consolation goals.
Sun Sports: T Devereux, J Low, R Rooney, T Evident, K Littleboy, M Robinson, N Hartburn, P Savina, G Seabrook, D Keen, C Brown, Substitute: B Johnson
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