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THE CHINA MAIL,

BACKGROUND TO SOCCER REFEREEING IN HK

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SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1957.

Famous

Have Met

THE RULES ARE THE SAME Sports Stars BUT PERSONALITY SHOWS IN THEIR INTERPRETATION

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By I. M. MacTAVISH

STAN MORTENSEN

By Archie Quick

While the glare of the sport- ing spotlight focuses on ever- groen Stariley · ·Matthews, the thoughts of the Maestro, amid the welter of his business and BOTGCT interest, constantly turn 10 some

that other

Stanley-Stan Mortensen, the "Forgotten Man" of football.

According to the statistical information available at the recent Traffic Exhibition organised by the Hongkong Police there are 30,000 persons in this Colony who hold documentary proof that they are competent to drive a car.

are my examples of

Those of us who use the roads as motorists or pedestrians know only too well that the holders of a driving licence vary in standard, in methods and in their con- ception of the traffic laws. In other words documentary proof of having passed a test or an examination is a means to an end... .it is not in itself an end.

No doubt yenu wonder just like a novice all over again. I, Thero what this has to do with foot- || don't understand their taction { decisions that bear the

in Hongkcog. Well, I'll | and I'm completely baffled by mistakable trade mark of pre-

their style..."

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ecuception..... preccaception from a footballer

who had al-

quite naturally reasy made a name ter himself pericure galed elsewhere. They as a professional in England and are the celstons that bring whose future

howin of derision from the faith-

ball

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recei maten i got talking to one of our local officials and he rather surprised me by saying that he would like to read an article in this

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aw of Tong Suni's penalty kicks. I thought I hud already done my share on uus subject without being asked to nqueal, but I do 1. ngaun by containy

Ghinking about the much with the whistie and the thankicas Job have to clo,

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and either or BOTH could be those wrong, in other words

who fawn under prats and fret under criticism should re member dat ir

outsider Lhey the criticism to be wrong then they must be equally ubious about the praise.

Having said t that, let us have a look at the present

siluation here in kangkang.

The European ;eferee, provide a most in.eresting study. Many of them had officlated in gooù class football beture they came to the Colony. They had very definite ideas un how a game should be controllt cl

and, al- though quite number of them had handles game, in different parts of the world, their whose conception of oficlating based, tu n great extent, on British methods...methods, in- eldentally, which are as good not better than any others.

Was

Nevertheless it should be re membered that these methods were developed in a community which had no language problem and which had, in theory at least, a common temperament,

DISILLUSIONED

I have had a cluse connection with many of the best Euro- pean players who have played in this Colony ln recent years. Many of them were already on their way up the soccer ladder before they cɛme hero

was

had been inked

with the Arsenal on several oc- cusions.

based

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un ex-

fu spectators--English as well ts Choise-and very often the

I remember, too,

a little in-outery is, a my humble opinion, chient with Milke Granger,

Justitied

ing goalkeepery

seen In

after a

unt

of the finest and most unassuth- i have ever It happenca uction. memorable game bc- tween the Army and South

Club Stadium 221 China at the the 1953-54 season,

Grunger played magnificently thingtwut, but those who suw the Rustic will surely never jo1- get his two impossible save- from Mok Chun-wah 跬 few minutes before the surdiers got Jul 132 winnung goal seconds of the murich.

Muk stood Mock still 0% is eyes though not beleving when Ganger made his second chance.,.and Mor South Cantia wuger rate ward and patted The goalkeeper on the shoulder.

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I think the best example 19 the lying wager who "nes rde- pusa lung through ing after and when In possession, yurds char of the opposang defcece, is whistled up for offsides. The many great point here is that Chinese of the

wingers have

made a close study of these tac- ties and the short brak sprint is part of their stuck in trade.

the

They have developed this to a fine art and I have lost count of the manber of times I have seen for the simple them penalised team that the speed of

their understanding mark, od with their partner, were too much

his

Jinesmart. for the referee and

to this orientation category

struction" obstruction," Chimee

is a Lear ex- footballer per in the art of obstruction,

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It was a wolfful nad spon taneous tribule, but more - lerosing suit was Gang's comment when he Kol back to

the Gressing room. By mystif 1 would t have saved vider shat...but at the vital moment I'd The advice I remembered

Wach Muk... he'll been given,

as it drops...“ When pressed for an explana- Don Granger said: "Back i Eng- ind

simllar and

circun- stances I would have expected a leil wager to have brought the ball under centrul before shool- ing with his left foot. I'd bea worned that-if he got half-a- clasice-Mok would mit as al dropped with his right foot, so

both times

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The

ul in inaking it appear that he has been obstructed. The referee who tries to judge this entirely on the basis of his British training will achleve Scant succes,

know that there are those referees in our midst who will deery my comments, but

I

know also that if they cille to discuss the subject with some of our longer serving members they will be assured of the accuracy of what I say.

Service too.ballers who come to Hongkong -- whatever their previous record and whatever their achievements lake long time to settle down to the apparch.ly famlilar yet strange- ly unfamiliar footballing con- ditions they find here, Some take longer than others to coin- pleie heir familiarisation pro- cess but once they do they make

half way was the path of the ball before

hit. But one trus was actually to learn fast out here it is

* very different from fool-steady tall back home."

There, I believe, is the crux Di the whole stmy. It is as ap- deable in praciple to referees while as it is to players, and

unprovement and the

experience generally provu beleltelat at this trying stage of their carest in the Colony.... and in the gamo.

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England's Batting Not Up To Test Standard-Tom Graveney To Come Back?

By BRUCE DOOLAND

Watch for the early form of this talented West Indies side. If it proves good, and if John Goddard and his boys get away to a rattling good start, then England had better get ready to duck.

Make no mistake about it....when the West Indies boys get the feeling they are on top, when they get the confidence to trust their eyes and their inborn talents, they can be dynamite.

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Sad, Indeed, has been the lot During the past week como safely-first approach. Don Ken- to what we can expect, but the this star, who, only four people have been trying to tellyon was picked and discarded. things I have discussed here are >rt years ago last month, me that my old friends Weekes, Then the great experiment of the vital ones. England's need, ent into the record books by Worrell and Walcott are now trying to change the talented of course, spelis opportunity and scoring a Cup Final "hat trick”. "over the top”, and that with Colin Cowdrey was tried-and it is up to the lads, I have men- First of all, the North-Eastern so much new and relatively un- thrown out

and by

tioned strangely

right step

གྲྭམས་ Stanley lost his place in

take it. The West Indies seem de- tried talent about him skipper mixed-up Cowdrey

himself Blackpool's Brat eleven through John Goddard will be the man Now, I suggest, the has termined to brighten the season injury In Wembley Interna- ¦ with the problems this season, come to be bold enough to give and everybody will welcome tional. He

Mickle them. If England's young hope- Don't you believe regained senior

lads It. John min to status only for a short while,

while, Goddard's bey

boys will knit to Stewart, the brilliant Surrey fuls, together with the top few, preying sides in- and then, following an alternate gether

tough youngster who lelds so well as follow suit, this really could be Jeg spell of idleness and roserve fighting force.

well 3 holds much promise the season for setting the game team duty, he was transferred

variably do

have when they

of runa. Or, if his wrist heals back on its feet, to Hull City.

basis of Irled talent running well enough, to put Gloucester- through them, of [

as this one has. shire's Arthur Milton into And the last thing to do is to job and tell him to settle down to it. Arthur seems to have been underestimate just how strong- ly they will do it.

held on the fringe of the big accestons far too long without ever being given the real chance he needs.

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# fanfare trumpets when he arrived on Humberside, the same as there, had been previously for "Rulch Carler and Neil Franklin, but Mortensen failed to save Hull from Third Division relegation, and now he has moved on to Southport,

WARTIME SOCCER Mortensen, 20 times "capped", came to light in wartime foot- ball guesting mostly for Bath City. When he reached Black- pool he won his first Interna- tkanal honour in 1946, and was an England regular until 195) in the home internat onals and unti 1054 against overseas rides, Indeed, he played in

cach of the home

games Against Scotland, Wales, and Ireland in 1940-49. 40-50 and 50-51.

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No. West Indies are not the side with the big problems. England have that unenviable distinction. 1 know England came away from South Africa undefeated in the winter series and that their record over the past few series has looked pretty good. But I think we would be stupid to try to fool ourselves

that

still loving in the garden is

It just isn't. Frankly, England's batting is in an appalling state of the dithers. There just isn't sufl- cient Test standard stability

Just about 1.

study the last three Test matches in South Africa, There they were with two victories in The bag but the batting Just couldn't hold on.

STROKES NEEDED

My third suggestion is Don Smith of Sussex. Nobody can say Don is too young. He came late in his cricket but, as they would say in Australla, he came good." And the fact that he hits The ball hard should not be held against him, Did you notice how well he followed up lest his last summer form

execilent runs the West

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Indies during the whiter? He is now 33. I know some of you will be

thinking "but he's a left hander and we already have Richardson as

leit-header. opening alough, but if two left-handers are good enough I t

see no reason why they shouldn't open!

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Yet he could so easily never

Right at the top the incredi- have played for his country af ble Trevor Balley was doing his The boys to put the middle all. for while serving

best-and right well his

that--as

men on their toes-I think there country lo another

Peter must be one elcar varaney for directing improvised opener with In the Royal Air Force he wa

Richardson. But, according to

I doubt whether we shall ԵՐՐ involved in a bal plane crash, my reckoning, three of the next

my more of dear old Denis and still carries a silver plate four men in the line--the main Compton

now-must include in his bend after repening.

strength of

May.

Compton, Tom Graveney. Brian Close, Talking of heads there is Cowdrey and Insole-three put and, maybe, Mike Smith,

is 2 goo Mortensen

of the four falled in those last - Matthews Mory. Mortensen was playing in a match with another winger who centred A Kood

cross for Moriensen

net. Later he continted the!

to nod it into the

winger, but

When Matthews centres the ball he always keeps the face away from me so that shan't cut my forehead!"

They were great pats on and off field, but how their paths have diviced! In their two Cup Final appearances Mortensen was at reatre-forward, and they shared the triumph of

the dramatie with over Bolton, when, with the Wanderers look ing like winners, Matthews made the goals and scored them.

Mortensen

it is true that the basic rules are the same

Eu op an tour I think the party the worki over and

I am certain that referees go

hould include two of our best that fundamentally the whole through a very similar CX-

Chinere offleials who would get game is ki iuct the same, these perince. The manifestations of an excellent chance to ste, and ure, nevertheless, several subtle

It may be somewhat different maybe even join in with, the localised differences which must from that of the players, but if

waistlers of other countries. be appreciated if reat success they are willing to mould what

Such experience would even- with the whistle, as much as was good enough for the Lan tually contribute to the overall with the soot, is to be achieved.

Combination,

the belterment the

of the game in the Referees who take the trouble Kent League or the Athenian Colony. to familiarise themselves with League, or whatever It might these little points soon stand out have been, into something that against those who try to band takes regard of the style, tac- the local football picture to Atles, and format of football in their own preconceived frame- Hongkong, then there is no rewton whatsoever why our whole standard of match con- There are several good examples of both schools in our sould not be as good as

that

of any other country football at the present time. where first class football 19 Those who have orientated them-

employed.

work.

selves are our star referees,

US.... The local Chinese referees- the others remuin very much and what a great pity it is that almost withou! exception they like the notorists who have 21 there are not many, many mor?

competerice, but preconceived whose performence on the rouds // then-suffer from the exact

arrived

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with

of soccer

document of

.but few of them of the Colcay is far from in-

admit later on spired.

were afraid to

that they had been sadly dis- filusioned by what they had

COMPLEX PROBLEM

experiences and cncountered This is, of course, a must eten- from the Chinese players, plex and far-reaching football

I remember 11,tie Billy Rob- | problem but I am sure that the

his dest. referces who set out to stude

son coming off after

uppole situation to their Euro- nean counterparts. Generally ard inevitably they have deve- 1cped parochial approach

to

the game and they would bene- gently from an opportunity

to referte in other parts of the world.

it I and when a Hongkong re-

big game in Hongkong..." feel carefully will see how real it is. presentative side goes on

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three games when the chips

were down and the heat was on,

NEW OPENER

However you reckon that out it just isn't good enough and something will have to be done if England is to hold off the challenge of these sunshine boys from the Caribbean.

According to my England mu

must find

reckoning

(a) One new opening batsman. (b) One, possibly two, new

middle batsmen.

the

the new Warwickshire skipper. Jim Parks is another possible if he keeps it, or, as a real long shot, Peter Richardson's

younger brother Derek, providing he furthers the promise. his cricket clearly holds.

I make no apology for bring- ing Tom Gravency back into the picture, I saw Tom batting in India this winter and his class stood out so far that I just could

nat sce how England could be without him. My view is that Tom musi be recalled

there

and

and told to get on

I think the bowling depart-play his strokes-yes, against ment looks after itself becaus

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Unless somebody

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of the abundance of talent avail-pecially, able.

s And Godfrey Evans the England side has the cour still the world's number one age and silukes 10 get after wicketkeeper. So

these two they will be the bat- batting line-up that needs the ting in knots just as they did so attention and imagination of the successfully in 1950. Under the Selectors.

Lash 1 doubt whether eher of In suggesting another opener them will look so good. Peter I do not discredit Trevor Bailey's May and Colin Cowd: ey, too, excellent work when he was put must cut the bonds which held to the job. But it is no use say them in South Africa and as- ing. Trevor is the ideal England sert their class. opener. He just lacks the tem- peramt it and another simply has to be fou

be found-the younger the better.

In Australio my compatriots

Form, of course, in the early season will give clearer pointers

Signals Successes

In the commliice Douth or one of the bost County asV)- have always been inclined to ciations in the United Kingdom pick 'em on that principle-the there is notice which says: younger the better. They have "Football CAN be played with- never felt that the completely

1st Training Regt.. Royal out a referee: referees CANNOT Anished "old sweat" article is Signals, stationed at Catterick do much

without two teams required. Nearly all the greatest Camp, have won each of the 20 two good teams and a good successes have been pushed Rugby matches they have play- referee are the ideal combinit- into the big time long before ed this season, scoring 624 points uon

provided there

is, they know it all.

and having only 20 notched mutual confidence that all con- And that is what I feel Eng- against them. They have won verned desire only # good land must try to do this season. three cups, and hope to add a game."

For too long this opening ques- fourth to their collection before Need I say more?

tion has been treated by the the season ends..

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Trevor Ford Will Not Play For

Dutch Club

Trevor Ford, the former Cordiff City and Welsh Interna- tional centre-forward, will not after all play in Dutch football next season.

I advise all young batsmen to check the line of the back t Ford, has been banned by the of the bat. If you find it is Netherlands labour authorities wandering out towards point from the job he had been pro- check it. If your back lift is mised as a condition of playing

Sporting adrift your forward shots are for PSV

Club of also out of line and you are Eindhoven. trouble. The left shoulder Ford was to have become a pointing towards the bowler, or Public Relations Omcer. But even towards o fine mid-off, the Dutch authorities say the helps to keep things sireight, job should go to a Dutch sub-

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