Soccer’s Top Two Meet

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 11

Soccer’s Top Two Meet

The Hurley Shield soccer championship takes on new significance tomorrow when the two top teams—Technical Old Boys and Christchurch City— meet in the main game at English Park.

While City was qualifying for the local Chatham Cup final last week-end. Technical took the opportunity to slip into the lead. It has now played eight games to City’s seven, has a one-point lead which it could stretch to a championship-winning three

; if it were to triumph tomor- > row. 1 When the two teams met ) in the first round City was a i little fortunate to" scrape s ahead by 1-0 after Technical 1 had done everything but i score in the last 30 minutes. > Both teams have players

who can command the middle —G. Evans (City) and G. Griffiths (Technical). Both teams, too, have built a wellknit defensive structure in recent matches.

Victory will go to the team most capable of snapping up the half-chances that are likely to be all they will be offered. At the other end of the table the battle for survival continues between Waterside and Sbirley-Nomads, and to a lesser extent Rangers. Waterside has lost its last seven games and meets a High School Old Boys team anxious to avenge their Chatham Cup defeat at the hands of the Wharfies; Shir-ley-Nomads, who have drawn their last two league games, including a point snatched from City, will play Shamrock in the early game at English Park. Rangers, grimly hanging on to a two-point lead over the bottom pair, have a ha>d match against Western at Western Park.