Shoulder Pads
Sir, —This controversy might well suggest that the whole question of “gamesmanship” is at the parting of the ways. Some, indeed a great many, appear to believe in a multiplicity of rules to cover every probable and improbable occasion; others (and, it is feared, inexorably diminishing in numbers) put their faith in what is still connoted by “sportsmanship,” which, like the British Constitution, is happily indefinable in the langauge of pundits and “fans.” We all know, of course, that over the last 50 years or so. the techniq,ue of every game has been vastly “streamlined.” Nevertheless, it may be recorded that there was a time when, whatever the rules may have been, no school, university, or reputable club side would have condoned any action on the part of one of their players suggesting that he might be taking an unfair advantage of the rules. Can that, in all honesty, be said today?—Yours TOUCHLINE. September 16. 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29002, 17 September 1959, Page 8
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