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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1958.

These Are My Soccer Whats Best in Kowloon

Memories Of 1958

BUT WHAT LIES AHEAD

FOR THE NEW YEAR?

As 1958 moves towards its close, its time, before the curtain falls, to conjure

up the Soccer memories of the old year.

I can remember few years more filled with the stuff that memories are made of. We've seen tragedy and triumph, great names fading and young giants aris- ing, anti-climax and just once or twice real greatness.

When 1958 opened, I was convinced that it was to be dominated by Manchester

United. For under Matt Busby, they were maturing into perhaps the finest club side of

my time.

Nothing seemed beyond thern.

Were the FA Cup, the Eura- | By pean L'up and the League Cham- planship to fall before them?

were

All these questions, of course, answered in the Munich isaster For me, this was a personal tragedy Among the dead were so many of my friends

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TOM FINNEY

Revte as the greatest personal Cup triumph of the post-war juhrs

I talked to Nat shortly before that Final und went away feel- Hut out of disaster enme per- ing i wouldn't like to face him

The haps

I had never seen story. Kreater

in that mood. United comme within touching him more determined or more distance of winning the Cup and frontdum. writing a come-boek story which wild have had no peers in the realm at sport.

New Star

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So ended the 1957-8 season Wolves under Hlly Wrath had Lengthe wept away with Championship. Sunderland had been relegated for the first time In their proud history

The world at large looked back to the high noon of our Fucresses and decided that the Belgrade result was just too bad 1o be true.

And so we arrived in Guthen- burg, hailed by the sports writers as Joint favourites with Russia

nd Brazil,

But I think by then most of Although us had no Bustos We were determined to fight! until we dropped, we realised that on form we were not in the Brst six nations.

Much To Remember

The draw, alongside Russin And Brazil, certainly didn't favour us. After our quick exit

the competition,

the sides who hud overtaken us--the

from

Over Supremacy Clinched watched the might

None

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For the hour found the men and miraculously a new bunch of stars grow up altruist night at Old Trafford

And on the Continent, Real brave new world of Soccer brighter than hote

Hobby Mudrid had

their clinched

There was so much to remem- Cutiten, one of the most electri

supremacy by winning the Euro-ber. the bigh-scoring French-

Their forward line inen, Kopa and Fontaine.. pran Cup. of Kopa. Fontaine, di Stefano, Swedish veterans flown in from being described as the finest club tnck in the history of football. For me, the summer proved Almost before

ying personalities to receer scene for years.

the

OFF THE CUFF

I hear that there la A strong feeling Inside foot-

ball

Manchester that United' ALBERT QUIXALL is heading for another England cap According to JOHN CHARLES, the big nigning spree In Italian League football IN ending DEREK TAPSCOTT Ja laking over the mantle of TREVOR FORD at Cardif

It will be no surprise Manchester City's BOBBY JOHNSTONE re- turns to help libernian in their relegation struggle.

under a cloud and, in the first few weeks, there seemed ttle aign of it being blown away

Wolves began slowly and no club seemed ready to take over

He has already played some Puskas and Ghento was already the 1tatlan Longue...the rugged the mantle of the pre-Munich

But

great games for England, 1 still think that we have not seen the best of Bobby Charlton.

Germans a brief glimpse of the old-time

Hungary....und, of course, the Brazilian magic of Garrincha, Pele and Didi As Manchester United's Cupno resting-time.

returned dis- Although We It had begun, I was Europe- bid failed at the nal hurdle, It

England team appointed from Gothenburg, we was the turn of Bolton and their bound with the captain Nat Lofthouse to cap-or warming-up tour in pre-realised that we had seen a new

textbook up-to-date parution for the World Cup at and

Svecer And we intended to Gothenburg.

learn the lesson fast.

Ture the heudllnes

Our fortunes were mixed. We were badly beaten by Yugoslavia of and then we drew with Russia. Don What was our true form?

At Wembley, Nat recaptured former glories with display that rinks alongside those Stanley

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Russia arrived. And with everyone quite prepared for an- other disaster, we romped home. Inmediately the optimists were predicting that we were heading once more for the heights,

Overrated Side

They were being rush. Ituɛsia are one of the most overrated of ail Internationaj sides, We have a long way to go before we overhaul sides such as France and Brazil.

Elsewhere in British foolball, there has been much to not Arsenal, under new manager Guorge Swindin, are threatening legendary their recapture

to past.

Stanley Mathews has defied hly critley once again with some performances reminiscent of his palny days.

Huddersbeld's young forward Dennis LaW has written the opening pages of what will surely be one of the success stories at nodiran duy football

And Billy Wright heads to- wards his hundredth cap with- out a rival for his England berth in sight.

But I have the feeling that the season is only just unfolding and that the stage is really being sct for the New Year. What lies ahead?

Newcastle's Year

Will Newcastle set the Tyne alight once mure along the road to Wembley? Will Arsenal add

their name once more to the championship roll?

And will Matt Busby see the flume he kfodled in Scottish football blaze on to triumph in the mternational championship? These are questions which pinpoint the high promise of the year ahead,

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

LUIS CARNIGLIA (Real Madrid trainer asked whether Brazil's 4-2-4 formation DC counted for their World Cup victory): Thot team would have won if they'd played 11 goal- keepers.

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