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I BACK OLD JOE

IN SOCCER BATTLE

By ALAN HOBY

The president of the Football League is a chunky, bouncing man who today stands at the pinnacle of his power.

His name is Joe Richards, and recently he ex- ploded a bombshell which shook English foot- ball right to its ancient roots.

JOE RICHARDS

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1980.

IF ONLY SAMMY

DAVIS JUN. COULD PLAY TENNIS

AS WELL

"Looks?

by PATRICIA LEWIS

"That Italian Pietrangeli has He'll Sure they count, fair with an audience.

Got far Even today, if you were to put turn pro. I need him, Budre Patty and Gardnar too many Australians.

... Moż alloy together on a court I Australians coming out of my down

He looked every inch the roits et guys who can keep at their peak the money wasn't them fascinated even when, so hot; now, a'lotta fellers make all-American athlete. they're not playing in a tourna over £30,000 a year. Tall, tanned, crew-cut, ment, with the sort of clear! blue eyes that would never be caught crying into a vodka-tini. guess 75 per cent of the women ears. Every year I go

would rush there-though there I And another continuous sick and tired," 'said. The lone victory, I need and juggle with it at every

"Yes, ma'am!" he they're both middle-aged. supply of a dozen new, good- "I am Joe. who has a natural hardly add, was gained in that spare moment,

what They'd have made good pros, looking young players, Meanwhile, there is the im- reiterated. "That's gitt

of the gab, "of watch- home of baseball and American.

mediate problem: how to national football, the United States....

pre-tennis needs another great but at the time when they were ing the present

Some- team play second fiddle in

The goals chart during this Dare, equip, and field a learn world football.

same period, from May 1958 tout World Cup level which will personality player.

wipe out the repeated humilla- one like Don Budge, Bill tions of the past.

Tilden or Suzanne Lenglen. When they were around was interested. everyone All we got today is just a

"It has gone on far too long we must create a Great Britain team.

There are not enough stars to go around.

As Jue to the consternation of some and the joy of many had just been appointed chair- man of England's selectors when be made this statement, his words had the same impact on football as Floyd Patterson's left hook had on boxing when he knocked out Johansson.

For never before in public one al Soccer's top men advocated such a revolution ary move whatever he might|

think in private....

True Tyke

But then Joe Richards, for all bis 72 years, is totally outside the accepted stereotype of the average football legislator,

Stubborn, yet far-seeing, original. yet a true Tyke, he tackles the pricktiest of prob- lens buldly and directly-unlike of his colleagues who muny approach all forms of contru- versy us if they are about to

May of this year, is equally revealing-and depressing.

Fifteen goals were scored

25-but

of against

eight England's 15 were conceded by the novice Yanics.

Dreadful, isn't it? Bet Can't heap ALL the blame on the selectors.

And this is where I back battling, Joe Richards in the bitter dog-fight ahead

No one yet has managed to Get the Scots, Engilsh, Welsh, bunch of nice young kids," and Irish to form one regular,

I was talking at Wimbledon united football front against the

state of the game mounting and merciless chal-about the

No natural genius lange of the Continentals.

With a

few exceptions like Newcastle's George Eastham the inhibited, natural genius, of a Stan Mathews or Ton Finney isn't there any more.

Not at England level. Noi at club level. Not, apparently, at ANY level.

if you think I'm overdoing the gloom, consider the case of one of our most famous clubs. Aston Villa.

During the past few months villa, once the Mecca of every Soccer-drunk kid in Birming- ham and the Black Country, has given trials to 350 young- sters.

to Jack Kramer. Wimbledon champion of 1947, world pro- Fear-a deep-seated, neurotic fessional champion from. 1948 fear on the port of the smaller until 1953 and the man behind

circus associations that English League Kramer's travelling stars will poach the best places professional tennis players. in the team means that the found him surprisingly pes- negollations which president simistic. Richards will open shortly will be prolonged and tricky.

But with old Joe from Barnsley the Soccer strongman

who wants to sweep the cob- webs out of football"—nothing is impossible.

Staunch ally

The money

on,

of

I

"'Y'see, ma'am, the compeli- tors world has sunk to a low ebb," he went

"Only Wimbledon is really successful now. All the other tourna- ments are mediocre."

A

Moreover he has a staunch

the in Bob He gestured vaguely at from Scotland ally

The creeper- of the tea lawns and new president Was Kelly,

covered Centre Court, "Nothing with this Scottish F. A. who said:

"I am all in favour of a anywhere compares Great Britain team. I was because Wimbledon itself is

than the institution in Interested

Jpg greater very Richards's remarks. I should game. But generally speaking, like to have a talk with him."the ture is going."

This and views im Yes, moods British football are changing almost overnight.

And what happened? walk on uggs.

there a Billy Walker or Pongo Did 25 of Waring among them? is nothing new, There course, about the Richards Plan Per cent, 15 per cent, or even

national 5 per cent make the grade? to de-Anglicise our

In eleven.

did NOT. They

official words of the slalement "not one

have asked again and again that they should scrap this pitiful England side and pick an elite British team from the top football professors in Britalu,

For, however you look at it, the England team record in re- cent times is as feeble as a baby's sigh.

In the past 12 games they have played abroad, England's choren have lost 7, drawn 4 and won 1.

The club showed

enough promise to be signed." And that's how it is.

And that's how it's going to be until more cash incentives day

That is why

I believe the is not so far off when

are offered; until the present Cells and Anglo-Saxons will be over-coaching lunacy is halted: one.

sportsmasters and and until

And when that happens, the coaches everywhere give every jeered-at British will be well buy between on the way to becoming foot- football-hungry 8 and 14 a tennis ball-and then ball masters again instead of

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last and Gonzalez,

year's Olmedo, amateur champion,

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"Well, ma'am, the personality everything in professional

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