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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1957.

UP GO THE PRICES Get in the right spirit

$6 A Seat Is Far Too High For Our Present Football Standard

Says I. M. MacTAVISH

No football fon in the Colony can be indifferent to the decision of the Hong- kong Football Association to permit higher prices to be charged for certain parts of the grandstand at the Hongkong Stadium.

It is almost fantastic to believe that fans are going to be asked to pay as much as $6 for a seat at an ordinary League match between two amateur teams playing on a ground that was built by Government for the general advancement of sport.

For this amount of money at 1s possible to get the very best cent in the centre of the stand nt Highbury, or Old Trafford. The Hawthorns and it is more then is charged for the best Genis at Tynecastle or

And those are Ibrox. grounds where Britain's grea- test professional clubs play.

There is another aspect of that if and when the now maxi- this affair which is worthy of mum charge is imposed the gross value of a capacity rate will be con-ideration.

increased to $70,000! Makes you think, doesn't it?

There is an old axiom which says "The rich shall be rich.... and the pour thall be poorer

and it looks of though! the something of that policy 18 involved in this latest Im- position

1 um completely baffled to know how much an increase in charges can ever be justified. From $2.40 to a permisalble $ is a hefly jump and even if the competing clubs exercize their right to charge less than the maximum (I wonder when we shall see such generosity) the price is still far too high for the football that is being produced here at the present time.

Crowd Control

Only Four

I wonder how many of you realise that no for this

reason only four clubs huvo actually played in First Division or Senior Shield

games at the Stadium, six of the present teams in the Senior League, and also St Joseph's

and Royal Navy who were relegated at the end of last person, have never s far as I know-had a game on the Stadium's fine turf and of the others Bing Tao and CAA have had but the minimum On several occasions I have opportunity of appearing there. heard the scheme justified he~;

The ground han in fact been cause it will remove the current almost a monopoly involving crowd control problen created South China, KMB, and Kitchee by the anomaly of spectators with Eastern and Army getting a paying the same price for Less frequent looks lo, There is covered accommodation. Ac-little or no indication that there cording to the stories in current will be any significant change in circulation the regular fans on this set-up, end with the extra wealth which will the cast side of the ground ob accumulated Ject to having to pay the same cccrue from the new admission it indeed looks very amount as the folks who were charges sitting in reserved seni, under much a case that the itch shall cover on the opposite side. This be richer and the poor can play move towards increased prices wherever they like....and in a fact that this Colony It is Is the result!!

wealth and exccer superiority go

Intense Criticism

It would be sheer pantomime to pretend that the. All-Hong kong and Hongkong Selection teams plcked to represent us agalnet the visiting Wacker alde have met with generai approval. In fact it would be truer to ay that in Chinese circles particularly they have luvoked Intense criticism.

The sports writers, like the fans who flock to the big gamer, cannot understand for example now eng Sur, surely the mast consistent wing hair in Colony football, has suddenly faded from

of the the Captaincy Hongkong

All- side to complete obscurity

apparently not even Food enough to be mentioned in the list of reserves for the Selection. Similarly t is interesting to see goalkeeper Kwoit Chow-ming getting a re- serve mention while Wat Fol- m, who is keeping him out of the KMB first team and who has represented the Colony on in- numerable occasions, has been ignored completely.

Intriguing

were sme unpleasant scenes in which several Services players

rere involved.

In a friendly way Me Dalgety Mers to that I was gulity of a mlistatement in my report on the gome. As you know I have always welcomed the lden of the other side of the story' being presented and in this canc I leave you to decide whether or not there was any missinte ment in what I wrote,

The Incident

In his letter Mr Dalgety explains the incident as follows, "The Services forward charged the goalkeeper mirty and the goalkeeper fell to the ground on top of the ball. I walted for about 3 or 4 seconds then, us the ball was still under the goalkeeper, I blew the whistle and turned to call the trainer. After the whistle the goal- keeper released the ball and a Services player kicked it into the goal. When the goalkeeper

I was taken of resumed play with a drop ball. You will seC therefore that your statement that he certainly did not blow his whistle is incorrect.

wrole Here is what I actually and "The Incident happened late in the second half when goal- keeper Lau Kin-cheung was challenged while in possession of the ball. He tried to avoid

the charge but somehow he got

n knock on the face and fell to the ground.

It is an Intriguing though; too to are a big star who recently publicly criticised the Selectors

to pick fur their inability

(сат well balanced

onco tho

"The referee apparently de- nominated egala among

tected no infringement by pinyera.

Nevertheless the All either of the Services players Hongkong atde is a formidable who were involved and ha cer- looking unit, I do not think it tuinly did not blow his whistle WHEN THE GOALKEEPER is by any means the best aldo we can produce, I do not be- WENT TO THE GROUND; One Services pinyers re- and the "visitors" get about lieve that Lau Kin-cheung is of the

ball It slipped $0,500... and that's not bad for our best goalkeeper: in fact I trieved the

fullen goalkeeper's a game where two amateur would not nominate him in the from the

and kicked it into football teams are playing first three, but he is young and grasp against each other. I am told he will certainly beneft from

I WONDER IF IT EVER | hand in hand. OCCURRED TO THE GOOD Incidentally, you might like PEOPLE WHO MADE THIS to be reminded that when there LATEST DECISION THAT is a full house at the Stadium THE ANOMALY COULD HAVE under the

of present scale BEEN REMOVED JUST AS charges the gross value of the EFFECTIVELY...AND WITH gate is $67,000 of which the MUCH GREATER SATISFAC home team gets shout $23,000 TION TO THE FANS... BY REDUCING THE PRICE OF ADMISSION TO THE UN- COVERED ACCOMMODA- TIONII!

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"WHILE THIS MOVEMENT WAS IN PROGRESS THE RE- FEREE MUST HAVE BLOWN HIS WHISTLE for the team the Combined oficials. Chinese were racing across the playing pitch to attend to Lau Kin-cheung."

the experience he will gain in this series and that may be im- portant in the years to come.

and backs The

are trled trusted servants but it remains not to bo ocen whether or Mendum will fit into the highly flexible playing plan which this side will obviously employ. I do I leave you to make your not consider the ebullient own decision on the accuracy soldier is the ideal right half of my report....personally hav for this particular job, but heing read it in conjunction with is undoubtedly an accomplish-Mr Dalgetty's letter I am very ed player and he will certainly causfled

carry the best wishes of us all, ....and friully....may I wish He has many critics, but he our football fraternity a Very also has a grand opportunity to Merry Christmas............

prove them all wrong by turn-

ing in a top-class display,

Great Interost

The honouring of MeNicol is both, timely and to some degree logical while Cawley's debut at centre-half in the Selection will be welched with great in- terest and, provided he can tighten up his heid work to the high erovsod ball, he should do very well.

The face of our Colony repre- sentative sides is'chunging fast but everyone who follows the game here closely will with the players the best of luck in the

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