In-form Colchester United clocked up their biggest ever win at Ninian Park and mathematically ensured Division Two football at Layer Road again next season.

The U's were in sizzling form in front of goal and might have won by a bigger margin, despite spending a large period of the game fending off severe pressure from the big spending promotion chasing Welshmen.

Karl Duguid shot the Essex side into a fourth minute lead and Kemal Izzet followed suit early in the second half.

By the time teenage enigma Dean Morgan crashed in a stunning third with 17 minutes still to play more than half the 12,633 crowd had streamed out of the ground.

Published Monday, April 21, 2003

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