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WINTERBOTTOM MUST GO!
Says ALAN HOBY
To me the saddest football news of the week was that Walter Winterbottom is to stay RS manager of the League team.
I would not only have sacked him from that job. I would sack him from having anything to do with selecting England's teams at all.
I don't say this gladly. I say all strategy hon stried the in- it sadly.
divichimlity of natural ball artists,
MY DEMAND IS BASED on the cold, clear evidence of the record-book. This shows that of England's lost 11 internationals, four have been lost, four drawn, and three won.
on
IT 18 BASED
whal happened to England during that horse-laugh tour of the New Weld last Maybelled
by trazi, pulverized by Pera.
Look what happened to Wilf Mannion, Lea Shackleton, and Stan Matthews in their_bryday. Even Matthews was NOT an nú- tomatle choles in the sense that England favourites like Billy Wright and Jimmy Dickinson were.... "Shalk" got only alx cops. į
They said he was no tempera- and mangled by little Mexico. mental and unorthodox. Bul
AND IT IS BASED im
isn't Puskas?
the
bungling and blunders that have Since then the cult of person- been made la every World Cup !atity has vanished from England series I can presll-in 1950, 54 | elevens. It has been killed-a5 and 58.
dead as dried haddock.
Waller Winterbottom is the boss, He dictates the policy. He
WINTERBOTTOM
has the final word. It is he
therefore, who must accept the consequences of complete utter failure.
What England teams need is a stick of dynamite under them- but, in my view, Walter not the man to light the fuse.
Need Busby Type
Winterbottom, who ar an Ex-teacher in a mixture of exxhead and athlete, was never a great footballer him- self-thinagh
played centre half or wing half with Manchester United before the
WAT.
Surely the The two men who have pro- dized the greatest teams in post- war football--Matt Busby and Stan Cullls-were both famous players. They have vast practl- cal experience. They know how to get the absolute best out of tactically and players both psychologically.
example is clear.
Walter Is no doubt a diligent the and Director of Coaching for
Football Association-his other AND SO I SAY IT AGAIN--but he just doesn't strike AND I SAY IT STRAIGHT TO me as having the fire and genius
WALTER'S
HEAVEN'S
WALTER!
FACE: FOR SAKE GO.
to put the England
at the top.
team back
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1959.
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The Royal Army Edurallon Corps Rugby XV, unbeaten since November 1956, carried their long run of successes a stage further when they recently beat the Royal Army Ordnance Corps by 26 points to xix at Blackdown, Hamp. shire.
Photo shows an incident during the game with an RAOC player in pos- RAEC forward. Army News session of the bail, but being tackled by a Service photo.
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In my view, Winterbottom-- and his compliant committee--- have consistently chosen the fer the WTONK positions,
Tactics All Wrong
They have consistently plump- ed for the wrong tactics and strategy against the new-look football from abroad. In the past too they have consistently pick- cd players who were out of form.
П
Take that, disaster of match arsinst these smart
FOUR D. JONES
THE WORLD IS PULL OF CHURCH FELLOWS, WOULD IT BO THE CURTE OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE THAT HA THE ONLY
SANE SHEPHERD IN A FLOCK OF QUARE
FOLK
part-time Swedes.
Like
Waller, I thought this was promising Young England after eleven-but I did my.
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what
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British Tennis Council To Discuss Amateurism And Open Tournaments
London, Nov. 11. Amateurism and open championships are to be discussed when the British Lawn Tennis Council meet in private in London tomorrow, The councillors will have be- ! fore them comments from vari ous tennis organisations, Includ- ing the All-England Club, who with the LTA, stage the Wim- bledon championships.
to
BRITAIN FACES OLYMPIC GAMES SOCCER PROBLEMS
By ARCHIE QUICK
London.
Great Britain's Olympic Games Soccer plans have been seriously hampered by Mike Stacey (Crook Town) and Sandy Kane (Queen's Park) turn- ing professional for Luton Town and Northampton Town. They were the two nominated inside-lefts, and their departure to the paid ranks has left both a gap and a problem.
FA Amateur Manager F. N. S. and Cambridge University was Creek, the former great Corin- taken away from Grange Road thian contre-forward, told me Cambridge. to Eastbourne so that in the qualifying compell-that, on the besutiful Saffrons tort of the Olymple Games (grind, schools could be given which is almost upon Brikaka 18 the opportunity of seeing such players have to be declared aja game. The seward was a fine fortnight before each match-attendance and plenty of Eire and Holland are the other :thusiasm from the boys, yet it countries in Crest Britain's ¦ is still not universally known section-and the defection of that FA conches are available Stacey and Kane meant that he free of cost to any school which would have to find a last minute ¡cores to apply. inside-left against Eire at Brighton on Nov. 21.
A Sad Thought
-
The FA felded a parilen. larly strong eleven of London seniors, and still Cambridge won by 2-1--the Gri Ume again that. A University has besten the FA since the inst War.
Best Varsity Side
In their amateur eleven the FA had Terry Venables (Chel- sea), Bill Meadows (Arsenal) and GeoT Vowden (Nottingham
Win For Light Blues Fort), all of whom have had
For the dust time also
two į Light Blues have
League experience, 50 that makes Cambridge just about the the best University side for years. full They sine trained by Tony
1 la a and thought that Amateur Internationals in re- | Marchi, of the Spuri, and he has wblle other countries are sidence in wing-half George inculcated an Italian style into State-sponsored And sub-Wright, who has played for their play, There were cbrious- dised the Great Britain England and Barnsley, and Patly some future Internation: 15 team will not meet each other Neil, who has played for Eng- here. until they gather from England, Portsmouth and Welver- With Norman Creek way his Jand, Northern Ireland, Seol-hampton Wanderers. In addition fellow-Corinthian A, G. Dog- land and Wales al Victoria they have David Jacobs, a Lon-gart, and they agreed that the Station to go to Brighton andon Youth International, and break-up of that famous club hour or so before the match. would say that the outlook is was due to the fret that they It is sadder still that this not very bright for Oxford in failed to nurs reserve side. should be the case when the the Inter-Varsity match
"We all got old together," they Footbell Association is doing so į Wembley,
sald "and that was that,"
much for the amateur game.
For the Arst time ever the an- nual fixture between the FA
RUGBY RESULTS
11.
London, Nov. Results of today's Rugby and League matches
Rugby Union County Championship Dorset and Wiltshire 13. Bertshire 17.
professionals, making all com- pelllors "registered players," Whatever the outcome, of the Union meeting, there can be no imune- weTE:— diate change in the game's struc- ture. But Britain's official views 001 the controversial amaicur question will be considered, to- gether with those from other countries, by a sub-committee of the International Lawn Tennis Federatiort in Paris next month. The Committee's recom- mendations will then be put
the Annual Tomorrow's Council meeting before
General may also consider a suggestion | Meeting of the International
Poris for the abolition of the dis-body In
next July. - tinction between amateurs and 'Reuter,
The All-England Club recent- ly held a private meeting discuss open championships, and it is believed members favoured the idea of amateurs and professionals being allowed 10 compete together.
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the match with Wales, that the
nilaek needed A GENERAL!
Bul Walter-through some people call loyalty but I label stupidity-stuck to the rome side. With what result? No Haynes. No Finney.. Nemesis, Even more frustrating, it has all happened before ud
Where has Winterbotiem gone wrong? In my view, his basic .coaching techniques and over-
Juste Fontaine Scores Hat-Trick Against Portugal
Paris, Nov. 11.
France beat Portugal 5-3 in ΣΗ "international soccer by A match watched crowd
60,000 of
at Colombos Stadium here today.
Franco led 3-2 at halftime. The game was played at a very fast pace in fine, but chilly weather,
French Insidio-left Juste Fon- taine, who was top scorer in the World Cup in Sweden løst year scored a fine-tricks with goals in the 4th, 34th and 5th minutes.
Right-winger Perro Grillet (11th minute) and inside-right Lalen Muller (23rd minute) were the other French scorets. Two of the Portuguese goals Bebred by Inside left Dvalatou (31st and 73th min- utas) and the other by outsides right Dorninielono Caven (40th minute).
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Odbitro, forward Rayinohá 'Kopa, playing in his lord in- sernational for Frenze, had k Brilliant anatch thoigh he was not among the goal-orETE Router.
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