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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1961.
Incredible 'Posh' aim for promotion
In its unpredictability and its big dipper ups-and-downs, the great game of Soccer is like no other sport in the world. It can warm the heart or chill the blood. It can lift its countless admirers to the giddiest peaks of joy; or plunge them into the darkest pit of despair.
It is this endless mystery and uncertainty
the surprise fall of
--
which is the
favourites, the shock triumph of underdogs secret of football's ageless appeal, whether you are a fan of Real Madrid or Glasgow Rangers; of Spurs, still the best team in the country when they want to be, or Burnley.
my
Surprise,
But, for me, the tuggest Soccer When I had revered from riddle of all concerns rite of these world-famous clubs 11 centres on an ancient hul pto- gressive catheriral city only 1 miles from London.
PETERBOROUGH
PUSH".
THE
Already the fantasth fonts of this unique little outfi football legend.
are o
the unassuming Hagan--as master insicle forward he played alongsid
innertals
Tarpines Lawton, Wilf Mannion. Haz 1. Carter and Stanley Mothe toli me
as
"There are stars here We
Post only £4.000 whode sadı That
includes Bis full turk Dak Whittaker fram. Chelsea, half Keith Ripley Inside-left George Hodsur fati Arcerangton Stamey ronald hardly
SE-T
Already, after waiting 21 long years before the blase bigwigs of League Soreet would let them into the Fourth Division, Peterborough
have confounded the Cynes 2nd splashed a fortune amazed the experts
GOAL RECORD
For look what has happened spice Peterborough yuir Uti Midland League les The pare mised land" of League football just 16 months ago
Scorning the pessimists whe predicted they wind le neither good enough nor strong enough for teague warfare The Posh" zoomed like a quiled rocket to Che top of the Fourth Divisioni in one sensah Op the Xay
• They smashed The League goal-scoring record with a new high-water mark of 134 goals
• They supplies the top marks. 103/ At fut VISIORS Terry Bly, from Norwich Cas who slammer the ball
par baffled goalkeepers no fewer thu 52 Times
They stormed in the fourth round of the Cup, only being beaten by Aston Villa. from the First Division, in a replay
And. a League ganus, they
hy more
flan were watched 525,0K) highly satisfied ፄ ] [ ! = tomers Tin and again i away matches the boys in blue and white drew the best gates of the season The crowds, like gamblers goaded by thr sight of Labs Verus of Monitor Cario, eout and keep away
THE RIDDLE
ام انها را
Base
"What matters here, as 3021 football teams, is THE BLEND H yourke MM 16 energilang
Vel, yo
"Of course, dis harder mest Machi more difficult and forggh Everyone j Can haremaste That
the result banly bee And 11' :. strain on the players simply play harder, this alt
For wa
I said there MUST he other reason fur Peta amarerogli plusnomena: breakigrengi.
Es goals breswered the 43 ki Hagan
The pubar wants goals That's what we s KAP them: "
In five seasons, four as the greatest of non-League clubs. and one ΕΙ The Fotboll League. Peterborough have your for the goals with such zeal and zest they have scored the staggering total of 724.
FLAT RATE
And what at 1 Bush" players earn for pulling in the crowds auf rash"
Bagan belirten that the pay cheques of his men staabi te rendential
again with
£8,000 team
by ALAN HOBY
use would
incentive payments
The tour players then**
Janny Hagan, resplendent in az elegant green wool sweater tid for him by his wife. Siwed me the modern lounges
bars ladies powder 2000A Bond! the magnificent ballroom which enables go-alad Peterborough, mare then any other club in the League to justify its label of "Push"
The ballroom is regularly 1111 for dences. Confer waves fashion shows, and so on." The bold one' "We and booked for The Saturday night daner two
hand
FINE SUPPORT
The Peterboronga bass show- 241
The bungo marbsåren Every Friday evening bei weyn 100g people play bingh, the bulk in the balmon twi
Peraw 18 The stand 2
Premier Tomatis quatice is relay the number
A
T
When I leave the growled at A 30 thes
alrealy qu for the 730 SRP! The gam
brum Soo the eight by an aut side commutige We make a ume prodhi
Blago and Soccer boots dribbling and dancing shin pads and business con- vention speeches
here, I realised, the new inage of professional football, the new- strie Soccer club, 1964,
Tesday, 100, Peterborough not cady own the ground. They are the landlords of seven houses and 10 fatal for the players
Yet, in spite of this swelling song of private enterprise I still wasn't satisfied that this was the Se le seret of Peterborough. Then i got a
I noticed that Jimny Hagan. 11 we talked, was limping. I asked why. "A few weeks ago. wile playing with the boys. 1 f and wrenched all the liga ments on the inside of my left deg 1 could feel them snap. Thought, for a moment, it WYRS
cartilage."
he ended Inconically
And that's it. HEART
The heart that makes manager ligan train, rehearse, and drill bis from non-stop
The heart that in 1958 brought an army of volunteers when the: whole pitch had to be nived 20 vards beruss, in order in improve i The stands and terracing
The
ONCE NOTIO
heart
that once had thehairman, dir manager - working often und afteE dark They dug
They laid *** tertstones They painted build- rig:. They noweri and rotted The pitch
And the future"
WELL TREATED
Peterborough are als inks "I've been lucky so far," says In their mighty army sef ford. Hagan
"A manager has to be lowers The Supporters Club
responsible to the players, The kave given them £110.000 in cule the pubdir, and if he can hve yours which has enabled please all three Peterborough to speak £115.000
"We pay a flat rate he said "I'd rather not say what it is. Art but
Think yl Rad the players are satisfied Incentives” We don't have them. Suppose we were near the botton. What half-finished
Now. proud, whitions Peter- borough have shakes the critics again. For, tristead of collapsing in the Third Division, as many experted, impudent "Posh" ste staging a fal-out and for pro- motion TO THE SECOND DIVISION.
How have peterborough, who not so long ago had one tiny wooden stand and one wretched little shelter, nehieved this al most unbelievable record?
Have they played the transfer market? Have they lashed out fat cheques for expensive im- portants?
Or is there some other ingre- dient of success, as yet unprob- ed, which enables them to dely tradition and improvise fresh conquests at will?
Last week I visited
Bagan, the quiet
Jimmy
man
who
United.
manages Peterborough
to find the answer to this per- plexing riddle. And when found it, it made me goggle with incredulity.
THEY BLEND
For "The Posh" have main- tained their incredible promo- tion challenge in the merciless Jungle of League football WITH SEVEN OF THE TEAM WHICH TURNED OUT FOR THEM TWO SEASONS AGO IN THE MIDLAND LEAGUE.
Moreover, 10 is only in the last few games that they have dropped their skipper, veteran centre hult Norman Rigby, who has been with the club 11 sea-
BONN
on ground improvements and Bloodlights The ground deve lopment scheme 1 st
Four D. Jones CRIPPINGTON
BY MADDOCKS
DINGBLAT
REJOICES
I'VE GOT ME
A MAN IN SPACE.
I DOOD IT!
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FERDINAND
THE FLUTTERS
CREDIT BALANCE/
CRIKEY THAT MEANS YOU OWE US SUMMING OF ALL THE FLIPPIN SAUCE/
CLAPPEAL BOARD
BRICK BRADFORD
INTERNATIONAL SOCCER
Zagreb, Nov. 19.
Yugoslavia beat Austria 2-1
in a soccer, international here today. The half-time score was 1-1-Reuter.
Sports Diary
TODAY Squab Brigade v Pollee (Victoria Bar racksly Stanley v KCC (Stanley).
Anton Men's "A" Doubles: HKU v FCC, 7.39 pth.
TOMORROW "Steeling. IKEA, Coundil merling, Sports. rond, & bon
Jokers Jeslators Ber Teks); IKTC Defence Fore
Vietorin Park).
Badminton
Junior Mixed Doubles; OCE LIC; CYMGA V St Stephen's,
Beginners Doubles: India Club_y Nav Bharat; Mt Stephen'A V M4 Tả TET.
BBCE BOARDS
MR. GOUGE, YOU VOUCH
FOR THIS ASSESSMENTS.
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WHAT!
WHAT'S GOING
anit
Bhat
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fine bunch of players and a four-year contract
"Moreover, this is a place that has gut to progress The whole set-up is geared to success and Is my job to see that we get i: "
1
SATURDAY'S RUGBY
Dragons fully extended
by the 'Fighting Fifth'
By LANCASTRIAN
I saw some of the first half of the rugby match at Causeway Bay ол Saturday, and the feature of the play was the inability of the side who eventually won to handle cleanly in the backs.
Time and again Police had opportunities to get into scoring positions but they were just not able to do so owing first to very resolute defence by HMS Tamar and secondly to their own poor positioning and passing.
At half-time the naval side led by a solitary--and very early not --penalty, but they could maintain that lead, due in part to their having to play one #_littl left Peterborough
fot much dared by all I bad seen.
man short
of the But I wis left vividly aware that, with me, and two short for a while, and Police in the end won quite a file fuck, the day may not be long postponed when Petor- comfortably by 19-8 borough will cease to be known as slayers of giants
They will be giants in thei own right.
--(Londen Expresa Service).
CHESS NEWS
by LEONARD BARDEN,
After Ave successive defents
the traditional match against Holland, England wil be expected to goose our first win In the sefles since 1947 at Cheltenham next month. Only the Northern Counties champion Michael Haygarth will not be available among our top players. while Holland's two grand- masters, Dr. Euwe and Donner, are both likery to be absent..
England'a
selectora
chose virtually the same team as I forecast a fortnight ago.
In board order,
Penrose, Kottnauer, Alexander, Clarke, Golombek. Barden, Wade, Little good, Milner-Barry, and Holis. Reserves are K. W. Lloyd. Franklin, and Mardle
The only surprise ta the inclu- Bion of 23-year-old Adrian Hollis
of Oxford University. Hols, who may well be the first O.d Evonian ever to represent England
has bren at chesa, picked on promise rather than performance. I expect him to Juswtv selection by al least holdlag his own
tria To
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am Übelling the pack and that is not fair. They played well together; their mistake perhaps lay in fact that, parßicularly at the beginning. they gave Scruby too healthy a supply of the ball, when they might have gone on with it more
often.
Bui
even if the aim were a
From Cruseway Bay I went to nearby Bookampos to watch good heel every time it might Club Dragons being fully have come quicker through the
second and third cows. extended
the by
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers be- tore winning by six points to five.
Here in equally Road con- ditlims, with a dry ball and not 100 hard a ground--conditions In which Scruby from the base of the Club scrum was able to
send out a long and accurate service and throw himself full- bloodedly on the ground with- vut seeming to suffer the eventual winners also shower their inability to handle in the barks.
Recreio men
Dragons would have looked a sorry side without Scruby, but 4word
due to of praise is Roberts at full-bark who played very safely. The backs between these two had several well- enough-known personalities but they seemed to be in the wrong pusitions.
There were two Figueredos in was to The centre, and good it see some Recrei men playing rugger, but they clearly showed fack of match practice as their positional play was very often at fault. Danny
Figueredo showed that he still knew how 10 run, and
he scored a good fr hy artful dodging. hut his constant sudden passing with cut lacking was B
dummy tul 1:0114 and soothing of ર hindrance to his colleagues.
By saying Scruby was the helder-together of the tram 1
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Saigon on Saturday; at the mo- merit I must just salute them on their win, by 10 points to three
Tonight the Colony play Sal- if the pattern is as it was gon. last year, the Saigon side will be much the same as their Club side, so our selectors will know pretty well we are up against and that is bound to influence them.
If Squadron Leader Williams And his co-selectors try to find the best Colony side they might do worse than select the Club side almost en bloc, except for The RNF, the Fighting Fith', including some line-out experts,
only for at least never gave in, though
Chub have played rarely did their play show any that much more together. But Woodburn and theny guess is that most of the nesse skipper. Hope, looked the pick non-Club men will get a game of a workmanlike pack, but the tonight. backs never got the ball anything approaching comfort and they did not operate as D smooth unit.
came
This is not to belittle the play of Earle who did stl he I could with every chance that his way and was due to an extremely good run of his that his team look the lead, in a way against the run of play, but in a way very deservedly
Selectors' task
Richards,
over
as captain of the parly, is sure to be there,
and Mason, Whatley and Hagan, the other non-Club forwards are cer- tainly worth their places Club men if the previous-experi- ence-together factor is going to Outside, Fidier be overlooked. and Maunsell of the Army
the Police. Close of the HAP will be wanting a game and though
uf
Having mentioned all the in-they may not be worth plates efficiencies. 1 ought to strike a brighter note, But santil the Fusiliers' try there wasn't really one to record.
Dragons scured through Figueredo mid-way through the first half but the kick was miles wide.
It came as a result of o were penalty, of which there quite a number about that time, and it looked something of a
precursor of other Dragons' tries curse, for surely sometimes they would settle down. they never did.
Woke up
Halfway through
Bul
the second half I felt it would remain the only score, but then suddenly Earle was away lef! leaving would be tacklers behind, till
CRINE
1 Roberts. Roberts tackled him, but Earle was up
he
a jiff; he played the ball with his foot in the twinkling of an eye and passed to Holt, support- Ing well, who had only a yard or two to go before scoring in the middle Gardner kicked the goal.
So 5-3 it was to the Nor- thumbrians, and my word the game woke up! It may not have got any better technical- ly, but it takes a really bad game to produce to excite- ment when the favoured ones are just behind and there's only ten or so mlautes to go. And this wasn't really bad game.
the
Dragons attacked for all they knew and the pack kept the ball much closer. Just short of RNF line they forced & scrum and though the defenders
won
it, Judge intercepted a pass beautifully and passed to Wylie
made an who
all-important couple of yards but the
RNF were not going to let their lead go easily and they made sure the man never got over.
Win in Saigon
Then Club tried anotner mode of attack. From serums negrer mid-field Scruby tried-and
managed to make a lot of ground himseif before kicking on or passing to someone who might catch the ball. Too often his faith was misplaced unt!) with only a minute to go be ignored all other backs and passed to Collins who using all his momentum beat off some now-tiring tacklers and scored
near the left corner. The kick missed gain. No-side blown.
Was
The RNF are to be heartily congratulated for their game effort; it did all spectators good, I think, to hear them so upset
when the second Club try was scored, for they showed it really meant something to one and all, and in a season of tak too many foregone conclusions this was a very refreshing noise.
KitKat in the other game hi
You can be SURE
∙if it's
the
Colony Whitseld Wanderers belt, the 14th Regiment by 18 points to all at Boundary=- street. We'll have to watt, for details, of courac, of Club's gone in
HONGKONG STAGE
CLUB
presents
"FIVE FINGER EXERCISE”
St. John's Cathedral Hall
November 29 and 30
December 1 and 2 Bookings at Moutries
in a Colony side on absolute value they may all play to en sure an even distribution of fabour
throughout the whole
tour.
But this is all idle gossip, for we don't know yet who even played for Club on Saturday. They have had, as it were, ninė forwards oll season and the selectors' hardest task on the whole tour might be to discard the right one of this nine for the Coupe Jober match. As an Aberdonian friend of mine was wont to say: "Ah well, we'll just have to wait till we
see.
IF
PHILIPS PHILIP SO
PHILIPS
T.L.
light as dry!
GILMANS