Famous Sports Stars
I Have Met
TOMMY LAWTON By Archie Quick
THE CHINA MAIL,- - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1956. :
WHY DO THEY SAY THAT
I AM A MISFIT?
Asks STANLEY MATTHEWS
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I give up. The Stanley, Matthews knockers are out and about again," They are saying I am Anished... that I have lost my speed that I don't fit in with the rest of the England team, and that my only value these days ią, as a soccer enter- talner.
What do they think I am a sporting Danny Kaye?
Let me say here and now that I pay football because I love the game, because It is my career - and 1 always play to win. The entertainment part is purely in- cidental.
Never before have there been 60 many filmous footballer playing outsi:Je the League. Attraclid by just as good antary and bonus for part-time ense In the ployment, plus Read jobs in
Tugree that there should bejen. So we scrubbed our care- harguin, they
"Have gone 1 ro place for a footballer of 41 | fully rehearsed scheme, droves The past two years, In an England team planned for See what I mean about the particularly
Southern the future. the
state of the
dictating an Midland Leagues. There 13
But I also believe and the
team tactles? little doubt that combined sido | selectors obviously bolleve it 100
two organisations that you pick a team these would give a Third Division re- The inatch for which
eleven a run
selected. presentative their money, un probably beat th.cm.
frum
Perhaps the curren!
thers
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greatest of all non-Leaguers in Tommy Lawton, one of the few players who is a legend during his active career.
Such is the Lawton magic that he has inken Town
irum 13
a prou-
à
1
to with, they
game
say I am losing my Well, 1 cam still fast #t is enough over those vital first 20
yards-and that is all
As for my being 100 difficult to play with, Kiat i bewilder my wn inside men, of course II is unfrtie,
The allegation 1 # réflerijon end the
Inside many great men I have had. I Tate them
gch highly over 12 Faree mẫu they couiun't play with ine.
t
an told mal I like the ball Well, wich winger doesn't?
Souther League position,
0 a proud, unbeaten icadurship. with Brst-time Championship more than a
So for a i can see, I ain ubliity Moreover, although dikult only because i am con
ageing a little these days untly maked by
OPPONENĖS. he has still contrived 13 goals That I as Leve
one of the in as many matches.
What is hazards of my game for years. more he has the loyalty of his players and that
hat is quite a fent
for men who are embittered by roll-success in the League can often be most difficult to con-
THE QUICK PASS
You see, the #usies ball for an inside forward to give is the qiber pass to his wing man,
The job becomes haider when the winger la crowly
watebo
trol. They see their hopes dashed, they are only under the manager's eye on Saturdays. Yel when I met a group of Ketter with La tuk-buck
Midland gall-most on his toes.
ing players u
per.
way station platform the other day they were full of the praises of Lawton,
A BIG RIVAL Quie
compelling notally, so inuch so that when the England team were on tour of the Continent it was always Tomince Lawton" the natives howed for more than "Staalre Matthews"
Tommee F Dey ARhough he always had
big rival
the glamour stakes in Frank Sw. It.
Much water has passed under The bridge aner Tammy was an office boy in Burnley after being woood away from his na- tive Balton.
He played League
standing
the years have
But my inside parlares over avertorsing inat.
sound ways of i have never asked for the ball in a certam way and we all played logviber zich one objeet - 10 see kang- land; or club through to viewry.
The team plan should always com betore the reputaTİON uf always be dictated any player. Tucties musl by the run
of pay.
can recall one gume where the two wingers -- and 1 was one of them were cut right
out of the game, But I can't squeat, I could only stand und ina,vel at the brittany strategy of Kutch Carter.
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way against Wales. Carter football when he was sixteen
thm wolaxiur tootball general, years old, sad was in the First
realised admost at the kick-off Division with Everton when he
that the way to win was down was seventeen, There he mode
the middle. So down the mid- his one, und like his great die went the ball.
"Dixie" Dean De- predecessor Kime a wizard heading the bali.
Despite the War gap when he was a member of a great Army
side, he elected tional "caps",
Toterna- He afterwards
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| player needs.
any
It has been a great shrill to play with to many great inside sights over the years,
If I have to name my favour
they are the Immortal Raich Carter, the Wur Man- nion, and my old brilliant club Stan mate
Blackpool,
Mortensen.
And anal word for Willie Hall, that grand little player who scored five gools in succes- tion for Engand against Ireland in 1938.
THE TRUTH-BY HIS PARTNERS
Blanley Mortensen-Støn Malliews never gives Instruc-
lons as to how he
ball.
WnDis
the
When frst teamed up with hum he told
"You me: play your own gaine, Stan, and Pn in with you."
Raich Carter-1 wish 1 could play with him now. Whal wing we would make! I think Stan is better to play with now than ever before.
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And if he was a Mile diMcult to malets in the old days, well, after all. be wis Matthews,
Stanley
Wilf Mannion Pinying with Matthews is an education, Ninety minutes with him is worth a pot of gold,
When
y་་་ give Stun The ball you are templed to stand and admire, to be amused at the way he bamboozles his rivals.
You have to forget that and be ready for that perfect puss, You must turn his genius lo good account,
Ernie Taylor-I've played with Stan for five years. We've That way we suw what Was
drawn never
A common up probably the
greatest inside-
plan of action--we just at in ail tine. Forward display Carter,,
together, Lawn and Mannion
I give him the ball and then cemoralised Wales
their
into position, I know *1 own. They didn'ı need the wingests.
get the pass properly
On
moved from Chelsea, to Notts The winning of the game was more Important than any
Courdy, to
to Brentford and there
he became a manager.
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The
prayer's feelings or reputation.
moves totalled £87,000 In Of course I can play with any transfer money sult he war | mside man-and other players
done with, and came back can play with me.
not
to the game as A player with We haven't done so badly ut Arsenal. Undrubtedly, the War that, We lost only 17 of the and Third Division football games have played with with Notts County prevented his with England over the past 22 wieming dozens of "es". Hv years, wan.UZ 50 of them.
could hive rivalled Wright, Surely nubatly in his right Finney and Matthews In this mixt
thinks that
team-
respect. Now the Lawton story especially an England has reached obscure Kettering.
go on to the field without talking Will it end there?
over tactics.
1.
Answers To Sports Quiz
Four.
2. Tossing the caber.
3. Not less than 3 feet.
4. The English Cup.
១.
(a) Wembley,
(e) Ashes.
d. For each end.
7. Henley, 1829,
B. Emil Zatopek.
(b) Stroke,
9. C.B. Fry in 1001, and Don
Bradman, 1938-8 seasons.
LITTLE IDEAS Many times 1 have been room-mate with my inside man before internationals and we have worked qui little idres... sometimes they worked, some- times they didn't.
remember once trying
ruiz
1 Act
2 Dress
and
al
the right time. Stan con still dominate any game,
(London Express Service).
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9 Fare this
a move with Wilf Mannion and
Billy Wright.
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wag to be 1 dofence-
and wrecking plan, worked hard to perfect it. But wo never tried il out during the Home. Why?
Simply because all three of us realised
field that on the Fun
10. Heavyweight, heavyweight, the
heavyweight,
weight.
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of play made and bantam scheme us?less another method
WERK-END
I'D LOVE SOME NEW CURTAINS
i was doing very nicely,
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