WOOSNAN IS KEY TO ORIENT HOPES
Says HAROLD PALMER
If patience is a virtue, Leyton Orient supporters may have to be a very virtuous crowd this soccer. They had to be content with "consolidation" last season. I do not see how they can expect any more from the same players in the coming season.
There was never much doubt that they would hold their place in the Second Division last season. That was satisfactory enough. After all, they had wanted 27 years to get back to the grade in which they had last appeared as Clapton Orient.
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1957.
Full-back Bond Can Bring What Best in Kowloon
Goals To West Ham
John Bond, bly high-spirited
right-back, is being specially groomed for the "Score-mere- goals"
By BERNARD JOY
and Preston centre forward Eddie Lewis, who has last 101b, in training.
plan which West Ham put their tiger on the vital | United five devised for their Second weakness, Division promotion bid,
They
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Three more future profes clonala hove been signed na ground einft boys in face of strong opposition from other clubs, Derek Woodley of Isle- worth, Colin Brooks of Totten- hom both schoolboy inter- nationals and Bobby Keelch, also of Tottenham.
More promising then these at the moment 10 20-year-old Johnny Cartwright, who working in the office.
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As usual, there are plenty of able reserves competing for first team places. No competition is greater than for the outside. right position where you can take your choice from three dif- forent type-Billy Darc, the converted centre-forward with
eye for chances in the or the younger band of pro- middle, Mike Grice, fast, direct fessionals the one most likely and moody, and Doug Wragg, a to force an early entry into the
of goals. subtle shoulder-swaying maker league side is stropping goal- keoper Brian Rhodes of Ben- feet. He may soon displace experienced Ernie Gregory and Scot Bob Wylde,
West Ham believe it was not poor shooting but the lack of
NEW ROLE Drilling in the new tactics is clear cut openings which caused the low goals total last season
ar essentint a part of the pre- - the fourth lowest in
slason preparation na the
£ call dition training. division.
Skipper Melcolin Allison nos openings by a rapid counter- nim tu create more
a large part, not only attack from
but also in his new u defensive tactician 11 position, Bond therefore {s role of left-half, where he can being urged to quicken up his as his ball sail to greater ad- distribution and to abandon the vantage than in the middle.
West Ham mude overlizes for casual manner which slows up Huddersfeld clearances from the goalmouth,
centre forward The rest of the team are being geared to entry on the momen- tum so that rapid strikes made before opponents recover. If Bont modifies his style and hia colleagues dovetail I forecast two things will happen. West Good team-work
will explains plenty of chances
regnin for ecntre-
the First their success, and cam-work forward Tom Johnston, who
Division pince they lost 25 years will have to be the way
ago. und Flond well become tos goal-minded As his t-England's right back. Orient's salvation this season, tricic in the triat game Indi-
caled.
Yet the brightest feature was the success of their reserves. They finished third of the 32 clubs in the Football Combination, ahead of Arsenal Luton and Charlton.
Here aurely was sound insurance for the future. Yet how many of those reserves really seemed ready for League football? I would any very few.
A stand that looks like add- ing up to a £10,000 bill means big fees for players are out of the question, although one or two new defenders will have to be signed.
Obviously clubs making transfer advances. to Orlent are. Wasting their time. There are only 24 professionals at Leyton, plun three an National Service, and amongit there are four goalkeepers Southend wonted
I anw the reserves show the first team forwards how to get goals in this week's trisi Bame Ometally the score was Blaes 3, Reds 3. But the Arst team blies were two down to the reserves nt, one time, and Werti only saved by the second half recovery against what could be called the third tean.
There are
promising SODIC youngsters coming along. The 10-year-old Dennis Sorrell, from. the ground staff, was in no way overawed by his rst leste mp senlur football at right-half in the trial.
1 was also impressed by solld young buck from Car- shalton, Alas Extles and Ronald Foster, aggressive
19- year-old inside-left,
So perhaps the outlook. not en din for "acting mah- ager" Les Gore, who left Aloe Stocke's old chair vacant as he discussed the club p: Ospeels with me. Move over, Mr Gote. That seat is yours.
Fram
Dave Hickson before he was transferred Their new inetles will probably back lo Everton, show that another sharp-shooter
In sot needed,
Two seasons ago lanky John Dick scored 20 "B" goals from Inside-left. Last
he gathered a meagre eight,
season
Although Dare was in the first team at practice, Grice is likely Czecho-Slovakian tour in May to succeed hlm. During the he at last
revealed the form which made West Haun
10,000 lo Colchester for him. pny and manager Tea Fenton told him, "From now on that's how you are going to play for us." NEW BOYS I am optimistic about West |
He will be approaching, the Twenty-one of the 29 pro- Hom's prospects, For years higher total in this campaign tesalonals ars Upton Park-pro- they have been on the fringe of and there will be more goals, duced und cost only a
£10 promotion, and now they have too, from former Manchester í slzaing-on fee each,
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By ALAN HOBY
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Bert Trautmann, former Ger- man prisoner of war paratroop- er and Britain's greatest goal- keeper,
just won the toughest Aght of his career- against Injury and the sort of diabolical -luck which hits man only once in a lifetime,
Leg McDowall, Manchester City's manager, Bald recently: "In our match with the Dutch team Anschede the other day Trautmann was back his best.
"He seemed to have ell his former confidence and power.
But what a fight-back against titanic odds it has been.
Remember how he rose to be England's
top roalkeeper ... how his terobatie saves ard eagle swoops tilted the fans from Sunderland in Stamford
Bridge how he became the Arst foreigner to be elected "Footballer of the Year'?
TRAGEDY
Remember how, with honours heaping upon him, izgedy..sud- denty stuck at vccer's cat- man?
He broke his neck-diving at the feel of Birmingham's Inside- left, Peter Murphy, 13 minutes from the end of the 1958 Cup Final at Wembley.
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Worse was to come. weeks later he lost his son, John Michael, in a car accident.
This was a crushing blow. Yet, even then, fale hcd
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As soon as he started train- Ing-and playing again Jost seczon the whispers begun.... "Trautmann is finished" sald the know-alts. "He will never play first-class football again." Yet how little did they know their men.
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Slowly, and at first, tainly, Troutmann nudged him- self back towards the target of his former greatness,
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