Odd things happened in this slightly crazy, over-heated FA Cup tie, and although Aylesbury came through all right - and should have won by a far greater margin - it was not a victory we could be satisfied about. The first three of United's four goals were inadvertently scored for them by Marlow defenders.
Wrapped up together these happenings made the game qualify for the believe-it-or-not column:
1. Three goals of the match total of six were own goals all given away by Marlow
2. Race, Marlow's pivot, was a three-goal man with little honour. He scored twice for Aylesbury and once for his own side.
3. Two balls went flat.
Apart from the freakish nature of the game, there were one or two regrettable incidents that showed the accent was too much on spirit instead of sportsmanship. But the way in which United crashed into attack in the opening stages gave us visions of a Marlow massacre.
United became two up after 13 minutes. It looked now 100-1 against Marlow. But they were far from done for. They jolted United by reducing the arrears straight away. Their forwards swooped on Aylesbury's goal almost in line and centre-forward Chubb headed past Lightfoot from a right-wing lob. That gave Marlow the heart to become a team of fanatical fighters. Play swung quickly from goal to goal with both defences showing uncertainty and shakiness.
Near to half time Marlow were awarded a free-kick a yard or two outside Aylesbury's penalty area, which did nothing. Four minutes after the restart a terrific shot from Wegrzyk ricocheted into the net off Race. For the rest of the game United punched holes in Marlow's defence, but fantastically failed to take their opportunities. It seemed as if they were missing at the rate of one a minute.
But though Marlow were in a whirl they never ceased to hit back hard. Chubb made a golden chance for his right-winger but was frittered away. Marlow never had another opportunity of squaring matters. Eric Wells made sure of Aylesbury going into the next round by scoring Aylesbury's fourth after 76 minutes, with a neat carpet drive.
As the game was fading out Wegrzyk beat man after man in a solo attempt to increase United's lead but the dribble broke down just as he was about to shoot.
Winning was the Aylesbury player deserving of a special mention. He was consistently good all through and kept cool and composed when blood was running hot.
Taken from the Bucks Herald Sep 8th 1950
