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v Gillingham, 20 April 1974 [2] Lowest home attendance: 3,460 v Bradford City, 1 December 1973 [3] Average home league attendance: 5,601 [4] Biggest win: 4–0 v Torquay United, 19 September 1973 v Chester, 14 November 1973 v Bradford City, 1 December 1973: Biggest defeat: 1–4 v Gillingham, 8 December 1973
This tragedy would also spell the end of Millar's Colchester career when he left to return to Scotland in early 1962. This coincided with a poor run of form and the club slipped to third in the table. On the back of a 4–1 Boxing Day defeat to Bradford City, Colchester set their record club victory in the return fixture at Layer Road on 30 ...
Record league win: Colchester United 9–1 Bradford City, Fourth Division, 30 December 1961 [42] [43] Record cup win: Colchester United 9–1 Leamington , FA Cup 1st Round, 5 November 2005 [ 43 ] [ 44 ]
Colchester's form drastically improved, earning 33 points from a possible 42 to propel up the table into fourth position and the promotion places. However, after a poor Easter period, earning just two points against promotion-rivals Bradford City , Halifax Town and Swansea Town saw the U's slip back into sixth place and four points short of ...
Colchester fell to their first league defeat of the season on 31 August to a table-topping Leyton Orient side. Each of the goals scored in the 2–1 win for the O's came from players that had played for both clubs. Ex-Colchester player Kevin Lisbie scored the winner after former U's loanee Dave Mooney had opened the scoring in the 13th-minute ...
A £25,000 outlay brought forward John Lyons to Layer Road who promptly scored on his debut as Colchester thrashed promotion rivals Sheffield United 5–2 in front of the Match of the Day cameras. However, a host of injuries and suspensions in the latter stages of the season saw Colchester drop down the table, and as such the board requested ...
Colchester United : Bradford: 15:00 BST: Walker 7 ' Oduor 45' Platt 45+5 ' Pattison 58' Report: Taylor 9' 57 ' Dallison 40 ' Stadium: Valley Parade Attendance: 17,177
On 27 March, Colchester were beaten 2–1 at home by Bradford City. The visitors took a tenth-minute lead, before Frank Nouble struck three minutes before half-time to level the scores. Andy Cook handed the Bantams all three points with a goal in the 58th-minute.