1958-02-11 — Page 7

Desmond Hackett's Column

HURRAH! ENGLAND WILL PLAY IN RUSSIA

London,

Snow, snow-thick, thick snow is just the right setting for the news that the Russia v. England match scheduled for May 18 in the Moscow parish of the well-known ex-centre forward Krushchev has been saved from the wreck-but only just,

That news will be a relief to around 100 admirable English supporters who are going along as the cheer party.

And, of course, to England's

What gets me fighting'mad le

hired internationals who will ❘ that the very people who approve Jeceive £30 for their services tiere Sunday foreign excursions ia addition to a little some are suddenly converted, to the thing Lo spend

puritanical view, thou shalt not from Russians.

play on Sunday, when they deal with football affairs in 'not so merry England,

the

This little something is usually 4:00 worth of roubles.

The Axture was almost lost because World Cup rules my

commences

at

at international matches be- tween World Cup Analiste must not be played within 28 days of of the the commencement deciding serics.

And as the deciding series

Stockholm, Sweden, on June 9 it looks very England, and much as though Rusda, among the highly fan- eled entrants, should not, ac- cording to rule, be rehearsing a match that could well be the final itself.

But with a brand of diplomacy that makes the chapa at UNO look non-starters in the subtle stakes the game goes on.

rules

The Masters

Sometimes the soccer leave me alightly dazed.

Pondering over the Ireland no-Sunday play situation I was browsing thoughtfully through the rules of the Football Asso- elation they are the masters of our England football fate-and in good clear type It said that no Sunday 100tball would be played under the jurisdiction of that Association. (Rule 19).

I am just wondering who jurisdicis when the England team go abroad co that our Internationals can jump of the Sunday bandwagon and play without hory a word raised in rebuke.

On the contrary they BTC splendidly conveyed, rewarded for breaking this rule.

The Prudon

Only

the other week I had news from Southampton that the university staff had been granted a pinying pitch on the ilne open spaces of a univeralty athletic ground.

Alas, the university staff play In Sunday football,

new

Immediately the prudea of Hampahite Football Association

rimly ruled that the university would be barred from Hamp- shire Football Association activi- les 11 they allowed such carry- Ings on.

It looks like it's the same the whole world over, the poor wut gets the blame.

Ponder, chaps -- this could

to me. happen

In a recent match in Germany a goalkeeper, ungered by events, took a swing at an opponent as the match onded

But

not for this Marciano- citizen a meck tut-tut mindedt

or the mild seven reprimand days' suspension.

This slugging soccer man is at present regretting his impetuo

out a nine- sily as he serves

month sentence in jail.

He appealed it was part of a football match, but this did not entn him even one day'a timó The magistrate chaps sold T. they objected to the great game of football being brought into disrepute.

So today play the game, you Cup types, play the game.

-London Express Service}.

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RUGBY UNION LAWS ARE SO COMPLEX

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San Francisco, Feb. 10, The San Francisco Giants to day announced the signing of more players, bringing three the total to 32 who have signed their 1968 contracts,

Plicher Marv Grissom, cat- cher Valmy Thomas and third baseman hay Jablonski were the latest additions to the Giant roster,

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THIS IS A POLICE STATION.{ | WE HAVE SERIOUS BUSINESS

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By JOHN COTTRELL

London.

"No player may stand on the goal bar to interrupt the ball going All matches are drawn after five days or after three days if no goal has been kicked Heads of sidos are the solo arbiters of all disputes.“

These were three of the first, 37 laws of Rugby football printed in 1846. And they certainly make very odd reading now. But at least they are concise, easy to interpret and understand.

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today. The latest problems of their own. And so official handbook of the Rugby It can go on an unending Union contains 43 pages of cycle of new lawn for old, laws; 30 pages or guidance for The answer? I believe it referees who have to Interpret would be better to tackle prob- the laws; and separate defini-tems more swiftly. Don't allow tions and glossary section so four years to elapan before that the laws

under-changing an unsatlafactory law, stood.

example of the Follow the cricket legislators who always introduce their new laws for u one-year experimental period.

can bo

And are the law-makers satis Aled? Far from It. Now the International Rugby Board --- gluttons for hard work-have churned out pages and pages of alterations to the laws, including now rules about the knock-on, delays for injury, tactical ad vantage, scrummaging, tackling, penalties, place obstruction, kicking, the line-out, foul play and misconduct, and repeated infringements.

Many of the changes are ex- cellent in themselves, But far! from simplifying the game, they add to the complexity of technically-worded laws which every rugby player and specia- tor must wade through to under. stand the game,

Today, the rules of Rugby Union are so complex that even referees are

not supposed to them understand

without guidance in the form of coplows notes. As for schoolboy rugby types -- on ever-increasing body many are mystlied by su of the more obscure laws,

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In that "probationary" year, it is possible to so if a now

law solvos old problems or creates new ones. In the light of experience they may be so- cepted, modified, or thrown out, as the caso may be.

But if any of the now rugby Jowy that have just been adopted should prove unestle- factory, It will be another four years before anything can be done about it.

-(London Expŕam Service).

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In no other game in the world are the rules, and con- sequently the methods of play, changed so drastically and, 80 meter frequently,

Of course, it would not be pa bad it every rugby-playing country had an equal say in th matter. But, and to say, this is not the case.

There are cleven members of the International Board-two ench from the Rugby Union, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, from the three and one each major rugby-playing Dominions, South Africa, New Zealand and Australla. But every new law must be passed by a two-thirds majority, so any two of the Home countries can veto a pro- posal supported by the rest

Obviously the Dominions are under-represented. But: At least they are better off than France, which is excluded al- together on the ground that their mission is to guide the deliberations of the Intervie tional Federation, responsibla for the game on the Continent.

Bo France is the only regular participant in the International Rugby Championship which in. permitted no volen in the frem- ing of the laws,

The Now Laws

The now laws made this month by the International Board will be effective at the beginning of the next rugby season. Most of them have the admirable objeo- tive of speeding up play and encouraging attack.

But will they achieve these aims? Theoretically, they shoula But, la practice, players will often study a now law with the sole idee of evolving a way to defent at or to exploit it to their advantago. That is one of the chief reasons why the rugby laws have to be changed so frequently.

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