SPECTATOR BANNED

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30737, 29 April 1965, Page 21

SPECTATOR BANNED

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, April 28. A 27-year-old waiter, Mr James Condos has been banned for life from attending all matches run by the New South Wales Soccer Federation. It was claimed by the federation that Mr Candos had triggered off the wild brawl during the match between Pan Hellenic and South Coast United at Wentworth Park on Sunday. In the brawl, the referee, Mr Hank Eilerts.

was injured, and two South Coast players and their trainer suffered broken noses. But Mr Condos, a Pan Hellenic supporter, said today he would attempt to to defy the order.

“I will dispute the ban as soon as I am well enough to protest.”

He is recovering from injuries he received during the brawl.

Mr Condos said be would attempt to see the replay on Friday night. “Soccer is the only sport I support I used

to play for the Pan Hellenic team in 1956, and I’ve been a registered club member since then,” he said.

Officials of the N.S.W. Soccer Federation said today they were confident they could keep Mr Condos away from their matches.

“He Is known to every gatekeeper and there won’t be any need to issue photographs of him,” the chairman of the management committee, Mr Benjamin Nathan, said.