Saturday 6th April 1968 and Banbury United were away to Canterbury City in a Southern League Division One game, picking up two points with a 2-0 win which moved them into fourth place in the table.

Banbury went ahead five minutes before half time when Colin Holder ran onto a headed pass from Tony Jacques and cracked an unstoppable shot home from close range. Twenty minutes after the interval it was Jacques again who set up the second goal when he fed the ball through to Robin Scott and the winger met the ball on the run and smashed it home.

Banbury United: Dave McArthur, Jim Cassidy, Roger Darvell, Bob Haynes, Paddy Page, Peter Svenson, Richie Ward, Robin Scott, Tony Jacques, Colin Holder, Ray Buckley. Sub: Brian Knight.

Banbury United finished the season in seventh place, just three points adrift of a promotion place to the Premier Division.

Photo shows United’s first goalscorer that afternoon Colin Holder. In a two-year spell with Banbury, Colin made 123 appearances and scored 26 goals. If you think 123 appearances is too many for just two seasons and is a mistake, note in the two seasons Colin was at Banbury the club competed in the Midland Floodlit Cup midweek league which gave them around 16 extra games a season!!

Colin would return to Banbury as manager in December 1989 with the club in deep trouble and looking like certainties for relegation from the Southern League. Fortunes improved under Colin’s tenure but it would be to no avail as a final day defeat at home to King’s Lynn condemned United to relegation to the Hellenic League. Colin remained as manager in United’s first season of Hellenic League football until quitting in February 1991 when severe financial constraints made it unfeasible for him to continue to travel to Banbury from his Staffordshire home. Remarkably over 20 years after his last appearance for Banbury United, Colin would in November 1990, at the age of 46, play as a sweeper in a Daventry Charity Cup game against Higham Town at the Spencer Stadium!!