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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1960.

YES, I WOULD BACK A SOCCER STRIKE Wages ceiling should

be swept away

ON THE BALL

with Bill Slater

they used to be, This simply is not true. Before the war, the maximum wage was £6 a woek, And one doesn't have to be an evenomist to know that £8 then

With all this talk of a pay rise, many people and even some players seem to have forgotten that the current wages controversy would not.. have arisen if the English footballer's con- tract offered him fair terms and protection. Because a man elects in this country, to kick a

football for a living, rather than work at desk or machine, he faces all sorts of re- restrictions.

cimplayers,

The most unfortunate of these Is that a footballer has no free- down to chage his And thought most loyers treat the players with respect, some, me a result of this situa- tion, do nc!.

Almust as unfortunate is the restriction ถ wages which aris constantly as, a brake DA the development of the game. Mary clubs -hot

of them rich ånew-want to Kay their players more, and what is really needed for the good of the gume it the complete re- wage ceiling, moval of this

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Clearly they still are at top- Level-then £20-a-week surely an inadequate wage. The violinist is not paid by the number of hours he devotes to his guying, but by his ability to B the concert hall,

1 wonder what would happen in industry if salesmen, elgritst accountants and company direz- tors muffered wage, ceilings set by the paving capacities of the poorest firms in industry.

There is an argument that if players were frre, to negotiate Their own contracts with their employers, they would trevitably Le poid at different rates, end this would lead to discord in a spheres, men earning diferent wages werkt huppily side by side.

Cause for complaint clu But surely, 11 olher

Some people suggest that be- Luse footballers are paid for

something they like ding, theyTry somewhere else! have no use to campal for

extra money.

Footballers like playing soccer, of coarse. But, with due res peet, isa't it something of an impertinence to argue that be- cause a man likes his Job he

• should not expect a full and pro- per wage?

music.

A violinist likes his but does anyone suggest that ke

ter should give concerts nothing? Besides playing foot-

hall. I have another job-lench- Ing. I like that job, t00. But this fact plays po part in de- termining my salary,

Other people suggest that for a few hours training a week, plus a match or two. 120 nod bonuses is tnore than adequate Dayment.

Surely the criterion here Is whether or not specialory nie prepared to come along and watch player perform in thus: matches. tr Jarge numbers of them are-and

was worth more than £20 is

today..

I have alrendy remarked that a number of clubs recognise that Their players are underpaid.

Anel They have said so plainly as a result, most players had enme to believe that something of a New. Deal in wages was on the way.

If, as member of a team I was paid only half the amount colleagues were some of my Learning, my nattural reaction would be to work harder at my Lame and to convince my em-; ployers that I was every bit as Valuable as the ethers.

And if 1 achieved this to my to theirs? satisfaction but not

my

A bitter blow

was a bitter blow for them to heer the decision of the club chairman, narticularly when the

became reasun

clear int some cluthsculd not afford higher wages and therefore not even the ones who could were allowed to pay them.

Clubs In Anan dimeuy have everyone's sympathy. But surely the time has etme for us L<>

The advent of a Euroman League could, of course, bring about reforms which the Eng- Hish League refuses to coun- Clubs tenance at the moment, playing in such a competition would Inevimbly pay their with Ite players, in accordance

set scales. And I cannot tournament built around tents like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus adopting a niggardly

i

altitude.

And what of this strike three! by English League players?,

No one, of course. liken to sirike.

blame But can you players being at the end of their tether? They have been extraordinarily patient in their demands for reforms.

11 is werth remembering what happened four years ago when were pressing for the plays extra payment for playing in tulit friendly games. Proposals were repeatedly put forward but nothing was done.

MISS PERPETUAL

RUNNER-UP SHARES

TOP RANKING

By DEREK JOHN

A two-sport champion who has never quite reach- ed the top is 22-year-old Ann Haydon, the bustling blonde 1 om Birmingham.

She has become a world-class player in lawn tennis and table-tennis but unlike Fred Perry 'she has not become a world-beater in either of them:

Luckless Ann has been given tha title of Miss Perpetual Huener-up. in both sports sho the threshold of has reached world champion status without

success.

and the greatest nighter In the gemo today. She has the cour- age, concentration, and dedica- tor that go to make a work! champion,

the she But does

possess Her career as a runner-up

skil? Her top-spin forehand began six years ago when she and silved backhand show the and reached the final of the world | influence of table-tennis

doubles table-tennis

cham they have prevented her from

more pionship. In one year, 1955, out-driving

powerful she played in three world players in the world's major table-tennis finals and flaish-championships. ed runner-up In "them all.

She has perhaps walted tod But for the past eighteen snn to CD contrato months, determined Miss Haydon har been concentrating solely on lawn tennis and her progress has been spectaculur,

Fine record

sport.

One

con-

But there is one solution for Ann Haydon, While she has never won a world title, she can fairly boast that, un- like many women tennis stars, she has never lost without fight-

Sho has won many tournaing hard to the last, that wo cannot Strike action taken ments at home and abroad. She furover level down in matters

has defented the world's two hke this.

best players, Californian Darlene Brazlilen Mariu Hard and Esther Bueno.

I have stated before that there are too many full-time professional footkaliers in this fcountry and some of the clubs

in dimculty

could arrange for at least schic

It was regrettable that a visit- their stuff to ba part-lims. I Thla need not necessarily ing club had to be brought into bring a lowering of standards the dispate, and that West Germany, who won the small number of English Leng

Cup in 1854, showed players were involved, but, the what could be achieved by strike action was certainly elf:c-

five. part-time players.

World

only a

with

Finally strike action WOR taken which involved Wolves players in a refusal to play in a

No British player con ар- match against the Spanish elde Bilbao, And almost immediate-proach Miss Haydon's overseas record this year. And yet she sibly ly a £3 payment for such games

Of was introduced,

is still not a champion in her right since the British own Lawn Tennis Association have now pinced her equal Christine Truman at the head of the official ranking lists.

Presumably, this is based on the fact that Christine defeated strike Ann in the British Hard Court then and to. Champlonships

reached the Wimbledon, final was narrowly de- while Ann feated by South Africa's Sandra Reynolds in the semi-Anal.

A

Then, providing contract Keeping star players would present

was not permanently binding. 1 would seek to negotiate it cle- where when it expired.

A free, or troer, market in wages could lead to a greater concentration of talent at the

Of course, there are perks top. perhaps even to a Super- In the game for some players League, but there would still be

such as writing and adver- room for an ambitious club what Bising. But these have nothing over Division it was in. io do with the wagts issue The fact that I am. being pall my For writing this piece in spare time should surely

employers Influence my deciding

Kalary my playing football.

GL

in for

A few people argue that foot- unllers today are better off then

A Fourth Division club with und a management crreful sound financial polley, and play-

which facthail iss

aftreeled spectators would be able to re- tain is star players by paylig and could thus them properly hope for plumotion to a higher division.

Four D. Jones BY MADDOCKS

NOW WHAT HAVE DONE WRONG, MATE? YOU DIDN'T GET HURT AND THE BULL DIED A NATURAL DEATH, SO WHY ARE YOU BITTER AND TWISTED?,

NOT CONTENT WITH SETTING ME UP WITH A MAD BULL,

YOU TRY AND MAKE ME

FERDINAND

YOU FIEND YOU DIABOLICAL LOUT OF ALL THE FILTHY

ROTTEN TRICKS

football Девета!

problems inany players, for the Players' Union have limited funds and woltld be unable to pay strike But exhibition games money could be played on non-League grounds, and those players like myself who have a second job, would, I am sure, be prepared to help support a strike fund.

If the union does strike, the really important thing is that there is a solid show of strength, with players helping each other in whatever way they con. That way a strike could not fail to succeed in its aim.

(All rights reserved!

A POOR, PERISHIN' LITTLE

BULL THAT NEVER DID

NO ARM TO NO ONE. DIABOLICAL, YOU

LOT ARE

I SAY, HE'S

A BIT TAKEN

ABACK WITH IT!

AIN'T HE?

Yet Miss Haydon. is ranked third in the world, above Mias Truman, in this month's edition of the US. magazine, World Tennis. Choosing his Top Ten for 1980, ranking expert Edward Potter wrlies: "If only her record against Bueno and Hard were to be considered, Ann Haydon would be Number One."

I would rate Ann a greater

than Christine match player

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