 The following season started well but results tailed off and the team came 10th in Division Three.Wheeler had been booked just once during his 16-year playing career, but on 6 December 1969 in an FA Cup tie at home to Lincoln City he fell foul of the FA during a touchline outburst.Wheeler was fined £35 and censured and instead had a direct telephone line installed between his seat in the stand and the bench.