Cut These Friendlies A
Says STANLEY. MATTHEWS
I think the Football League Gates, are gelling, poor-only
are right in trying to ent14,000 down on trips abroad by English clubs.
There have been top many of them lately and you can expect a closer watch In the future.
It has always puzzled me why mory of these games-on Sun- days have been allowed in the past.
Why should the League allow clubs to play Sunday games on the Continent but ban Sunday play in England? It is not consistent.
I hope we never adopt in England the Continental practice of big games on Sundays,
Off The Rails While they are thinking of cutting down trips abroad, the League should also pay attention to the increase in floodill games, Are we not going off the rally in
this mad scramble to get in as much football es we can through the week?
I think the lights are a wonderful innovation. When they were first switched on crowds rushed through the turn atles. It became a goldmine.
But the gold is running out the novelty is wearing off.
naw Newcastle play Hearts in Edinburgh In
rld- week--but the rush to 1x up floodlit friendiles, and exhibi
one goes on.
lights costs quite a bit of cash I know that stating flood-
and clubs have got to get it back through the Turnstiles, but it is being overdone.
Crowd-Pullers
Give me the lights every time for mid-wock League and Cup games. They will still draw the crowds, just like any big game.
There were 47,000 nt
for Goodison
midweek gume with Everton, and Bury had their best gate of the season when they met Bishop Auckland In the Cup replay-both under lights,
our
Manchester United drew 00,000 for their European Cup game with Dukla,
The lights can also be useful for delaying the Saturday kick- off to three o'clock, so that more fans can get to the game.
But, as matry clubs are find- ing out, they must produce the goods to get the crowds.
Usc lights with discretion, otherwise the bored crowds will put those are lights right out.
-(London Express Service).
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He Will Live Down That Tag Of "Another Stanley Matthews"
Says TOM FINNEY
For years soccer fans have been saying that there will never be
another Stanley Matthews.
They are right. But I'm happy to say that English football has now produced the nearest thing to Stanley Matthews we are over likely to see-Bryan Douglas of Blackburn.`
I think Bryan is good enough to live down the unwanted tag of "a second Matthews." He will, I predict, make his own way as "Bryan Douglas the First of Blackburn."
I know how Bryan must feel when the sportswriters dub him another Matthews. Immediately after the war I was faced with the same sort of publicity, despite the fact that Stan and I are completely different in style.
I had heard a lot about Bryan ; ed this trick from his old days Douglas because Blackburn is as an aside forward. Douglas very close to Preston. I knew can use either foot and he can from all reports what a good shoot. player he was, Now I have been able to study England's latest soccer sensation at close | quarters.
No Imitation
pads.
Roger Byrne, of Man- chester United and England, and his teammate, Jackle Blanch- flower, have also tried this method.
Frank O'Farrell, Preston wing- half, has played at times with- out pads; and Don Revie, the Sunderland and England ́stor, has also said that he might try the idea.
I think it is a great thing for football that we can English produce another ball-playing right winger who, without being Matthews, is still in the Mat thews style.
And don't think I am joining that Stan Mat- Make mistake. Douglas in the chorus
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Many footballers believe that Not on your rescinutes Stan Matthews closely thews is finished.
much use Toally, in many respects. He is, like life. I am merely saying that pads are not Slan, f natural ball player. England has found another fine because most of the kicka you Like Stan he doem't get rid of right-winger--and good luck to Ect are on the side of the logs. the ball just for the sake of it. Bryan Douglas for having thet is also argued that they are not much use in games against He is always trying to create courage to play in the way he Continental teams who do not openings either by beating his does, at a time when so many tackle so fercely as our lads. man or by pulling a defender unthinking fans are shouting for out of the middle.
wingers to get rid of the ball. The idea of playing without Douglas only docs that when peds is that it gives players he is sure to part with it to good greater freedom, and they can that's the way the move more quickly without the effect--and game should be played!
weight on their legs.
Like Matthews, his favourite trick is to feint to come inside the back, and then swoop away outside
down the touchline.
the back
In many ways he looks like Molthews in the way he does beat his man. But Byran Dou- gles is a footballer in his own right, not just a pale imitation of Stan,
ke the way Douglas comes Inside the back at times to vary why its play; he has o strvirt of suddenly darting across the feld into in open space for o shot at goal. Maybe he inherit-
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Shinguard Shindig wear pads
A big talking point in soccer these days is: should shinguards be worn or are they unnecessary?
Many players now feel that they should, like the Continental footballers, shed shinguards and ap lighten their weight.
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I don't share this view at all. because I feel I need them.
Plenty of Kicks
As ค centre-forward I've found I get plenty of kicks on the shins, The chap who is tackling does not always have to woy so much about this. He kicks out at the ball-and if the ball has been passed-bong! you take on the shin,
I don'i suggest this-is al- ways a foul. It's just a quea- tion of playing hard and taking! the knocks. I've had plenty of bruises and skin broken on my shins, even with pad protection.
Many players get knocks on the shins in practice matches where one does not normolly wear pads. These are pure ac- cidents, and yet a player con get a really nasty knock,
The modern pads weigh no more than two to three ounces, so I don't see how they can slow down a player very much once he has got used to wearing them.
4 don't wish to appear a cissy, but despite arguments about streamlining players, I still wear shin pads and I will continue to so long as I play.
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