"INTOLERABLY NARROW."
PROFESSIONAL SOCCER CLUBS
ATTITUDE TO DOMINIONS.
Cricket and Rugby football establish a link of Empire by sending representative teams on tour. The great Test matches with the Australians and the All Blacks are their reward. Association football has no sucb patriotism and no such reward. It sees only the English League tables and the English Cup. This, at any rate, is true, in the main, of the clubs. The game is an Empire game because of its own popularity and because the Football Association has striven loyally to help Soccer football overseas. The great professional clubs of the country, with sufficiently few exceptions to prove the rule, have displayed an intolerably narrow attitude, however, "when ' asked to respond to the pleas of the Dominions. ("Athletic News."")
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1926, Page 12
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128"INTOLERABLY NARROW." Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1926, Page 12
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