THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1959.
MORE SIDES LIKE FOREST NEEDED Whats Best in Kowloon?
And More Managers These Stupid £50,000
Like Billy
Walker
By TOM FINNEY
(Of Preston North End and England)
The young Scot John Quigley soars high above two Aston Villa defenders, lands perfectly balanced and calmly volleys the ball into the net. After 61 years of waiting, Nottingham Forest are through to Wembley.
In the stands, grey-haired manager Billy Walker permits himself a small smile of triumph. Certainly no one could begrudge him that.
For this has been one of the purely average players Into
There great achievements of post-war top-rankingside. football. The one-time Aston istme very real talent in the Villa and England idol has built Forest ranks.
up a team of ball-playing brlista Scottish cap?
without
ally
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1
spending
Eprres,
He has rolled entirely on his player's own judgment of enpabilities and proved himself uncannily right, time and lime ngain.
1s
do
Wembley-and not just because they were one of my original selections,
But because football badly needs the example of Hues on ball that put the recent control.
Come to think of it, it could By with A fow Walkers,
more
Centre-ball Bob McKinlay, for example, is a man 1 have always admired. We have had several duels and I can assure you no one passes this craggy Scot easily.
He has picked up men whom other clubs had dabelled as mis- mo
It certainly wouldn't surprise made # double this Year at
its and furned them into top-| appearance
Une performers; he has trans-] Wembley, for I hear he is being formed unknowns ifta stars,
Success secret
closely watched by the Scottish selrotors.
But although there is An-
1 remember talking to doubted skill to the Forest Forcal's Scofflali international team, ft took a m of Billy left-back Joe McDonald eartier Walker's calibre to recognise H. this season and being very int-Just why could he sce when pressed with his enthusiasm
others were so blind?
Last me I'd met him he'd Firstly, 3ly Walker has the been playing in the Sunderland advantage of having been A
sltu IMUTVE
Some of
Inside- the very fine ball-playing erities were describing him as o forward himself. I never saw I hove man who hadn't quite made the him play myself, but grade. Today he is one of the heard men ke Charles Buchan best full-backs in football. praise him highly.
I asked him what brought about the change and he said: "Now I'm allowed to play foot- ball the way it should be pinged, under a manager who belleves in me."
Basic remedy
Secondly, he has been wise
reallse that true enough to success can never be bought, -
And thirdly, he knows that basle remedy for club faith in la players is Infections succtrs is happiness. His advice and everyone who ever kicked to would-be managers never a ball knows the importance of elinges: confidence.
That is one of the secrets of Billy Walker's
His the success.
The Joe McDonald story is echoed right through the Forest side.
There is Roy Dwight, never in real success as Fulbam's centre- forward.
Spotted on TV
Billy Walker watched him un television when he played against Manchester United ini last year's semi-final and im mediately realised his possi ties as a goal-scorin High- winger. Today, Dwight is the highest scoring right-winger in the Lengue.
Another player whom. he sensed was being ployed out of position was Billy Cray, the former Chelsea and Burnley winger. Today at inside-left, Gray is a threat to any side.
thd
Jeff Whitefoot, never happy with lunchester United Grimsby, now looks very good as Forest's right-half.
In goal, the Ex-Chelsea reserve keeper Chick Thomson shows acrobatic skill. And over on the left wing, Stewart Imlach the man Derby didn't want
is in the running for a Scottish .cap.
imagine the signing. which must have give Bly Walker the greatest Entisfaction. was that of John Quigley. He discovered him quite by...ar-, eldent while on a scouting trip. to Scotland.
Very proud
The game he had been plan- ning to watch was cancelled, so he went along to watch a Scot- 115h junior side. Quigley was in the side.. One look was enough to convince Walker that this was a player he needed,
day
The transfer fee? £500. To- could probably managers
offer 40 times that sum and still have their bids turned down.
Billy. Walker musi feel very proud as these men Justify his Wembley, faith by reaching after battling their way along
the toughest road of all.
I am not suggesting, of course,
that he has moulded a bunch of
"Always keep your word. Trout your players right and they will treat you right." I am led that nilly Walker and his
have reached. men
FOUR D. JONES
OFF THE CUFF
BILLY
Greece are planning to improve their own Jeague standards by 17- porting foreign players.
WRIGHT"A has Just wife, Joy, bullt a nuperb cabinet for ber husband's caps and shirts... souvenira of 99 games for England.
explain NETTO is currently rated the shutest right-half in Europe by Continental experts.
★ Russian
The Scots are now quite confident that MATT BUSBY who re- tired DU their Leam months manager several
350-will change his mind
and be at Wembley on April it for their vital elush with England.
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THE MOOOO TRIBE/~ BIT GOIN, PARTNER, BEFORE BLAST VER CUT OF THIS, WORLD IM GONNA ADUNT TEN, AN' THEN
LL BLAST-GIT GOIN'
JAN
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ARE YOU LOST ?
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HIMSELF.
Football Gambles
By STANLEY MATTHEWS
Mel Charles, the Swansea play-anywhere star, is a great footballer — one of the best in the four home countries-but I maintain that no player is worth anything like the £40,000 to £50,000 that has been asked for him. At that figure he is too much of a gamble.
klculous.
This increasing pay-out le It must be halted before some club makes the whole system tareleni by de- tanding £100,000 for a star.
Don't think that is impossible, I will come unless our Soccer
man, but the main reason for the celling prices is the dearth ni kreat players.
Let us bring back sanity to Soccer by developing person- ality players, allowing boys to So scarce is the personality increase their own individual player these days that his box-
skill and ing the Soccer office appert makes him an at-market with ball players who rulers and club bosses come to would even go willingly into
tractive proposition. Seme clubs will attract the crowds.
their senses.
of
Few Great Stars We are losing all sense vr.lues, Once a player shows that he has two talented feet, plus a Sorcer brain, his price becomes fantastic.
I know that most 'clubs would sonner pay a big transfer fee then give it to the income tax
Jockey Still Grand National Semi-Conscious
the red" to get him.
the
One-Sided
Remember this....the most with footballer the man
I wonder what would happen if some of the old stars were playing! Would there be enough the £50,000 tag hanging round money in the game to buy them? his neck like a millstone-can receive from these fantastic Old-Time Transfers muster fees in £300! Mel, in fact, can get only a £20 sign- ng fuc—because he asked for
une-sided What an absurdly business this transfer system
a move.
Think back to some of those old-ilme transfera and compare them with today's values. Derby County pold Manchester City £0,500 for Peter Doherty.
What would be the price 10-15 day if the red-haired Bristol City manager was tricking them dawn the middle?
Alex James, probably the greatest inside-forward of all time and the mainspring of that wonder Arsenal team, cost Liverpool, March 23. £9,000 when he left Preston. I Peter Major, 33-year-old reckon he would cost something Jockey
injured last Saturday, like £80,000 now. in the
National Grand
And it would be a lucky club, Siceplechase at Aintree, Indeed, that signed such a-brit- Liverpool, WAS
semi-ant performer as Raich Car- conselous in hospital here to- ter for a paltry £7,000! day and seriously f
In the old days, every team In His wife was staying at his the country had its quota of bedside.
outstanding artists. knocked Eternal fell.-
Mnjor Wis when his horse China Mail Special.
RUGBY RESULTS
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Landon, March 23. Results of Rugby matches played in Britain today were:
RUGBY UNION Torquay, Bridgend 3. Pontypool 20, Neath 6. SUGBY LEAGUE Wakefield Trinity U, Bramley 11.--Kculer.
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AT THEM SMOKE CIGNALS, AND THEY ANT MOGOCS- THEM THAQIS KLAMATH
INJUNS - WERE HEMMED
IN THIS PESKY GANYON
WITH RED MEN BOTH SIDES,
MUST
BE LOST
WHERE IS
YOUR HOME ?
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DON'T KNOW
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NOT
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THEM,
WELL NOW VER
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WE HEAR WAR WHOOPS
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THINK OF SUNYTHIN", REAL FAST...
WELL THEN, WHERE IS
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I DON'T
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I can remember one match before the war when Everton played Aston Villa. There were 13 Internationals on the field and the other nine players were all household names,
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