Liverpool Joins Chase For Soccer Honours

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31222, 21 November 1966, Page 9

Liverpool Joins Chase For Soccer Honours

(N.Z P.A. -Reuter— Copyright) LONDON. Liverpool, after a hesitant start to the season, is now making a determined effort to retain the English league • first division soccer championship. Playing with tremendous confidence, the Merseyside club crushed Leeds United, last season s runner-up, 6-0, on Saturday. to move to one point of the leader, Chelsea. It was Liverpool’s fourth successive win. Chelsea surprisingly surrendered a valuable home point when held to a 1-1 draw by Sheffield United. Also challenging strongly in the tightly-packed group at the top is Manchester United, the 1964-65 champion, whose talented team won 2-1 at Southampton. Chelsea has 24 points from 17 matches, Liverpool 23 from 17, Manchester United 23 from 17, and Stoke City 22 from 17. A penalty in the closing minutes gave Celtic a thrilling 5-4 away win over Dunfermline in the Scottish league. Three times Celtic was two goals down. Celtic, the only unbeaten club in senior football in Britain, retained its three-point lead over Rangers. ENGLISH LEAGUE Division One.—Arsenal 1, Fulham 0; Aston Villa 1, Nottingham 1; Blackpool 0, Stoke 1; Chelsea 1. Sheffield United 1; Leicester 2, West Bromwich 1; Liverpool 5, Leeds 0: Manchester City 1, Everton 0; Sheffield Wednesday 1, Tottenham 0; Southampton 1. Manchester United 2; Sunderland 4. Burnley 3; West Ham 3, Newcastle 0. Division Two.—Blackburn 3, Plymouth 0; Bolton 2, Hull 1; Bristol City 1, Millwall 1: Cardiff 3, Bury 0; Carlisle 2. Northampton 0: Charlton 0, Portsmouth 2; Crystal Palace 0, Norwich 0; Derby 1, Birmingham 2; Huddersfield 3, Coventry 1: Ipswich 3, Rotherham 2; Wolverhampton 3, Preston 2. Division Three.—Brighton 3. Bristol Rovers 2: Darlington 1. Oxford 2; Grimsby 2, Swansea 1; Mansfield 1, Bournemouth 0: Peterborough 0, Shrewsbury 2; Queen’s Park Rangers 0. Oldham 1; Reading 2, Gillingham 1; Swindon 3, Workington 0; Torquay 5, Colchester 0; Wai sail 2. .Middlesbrough 1; Watford 0, | Scunthorpe 1. Division Four.—Barrow 3, lLuton 0; Bradford 2, Brentford 2; Chester 0, Halifax 2; Chesterfield 2, Southend 1; Crewe 2, ißarnsley 2; Lincoln 1, Wrexham 11; Notts County 0, Hartlepools 0: Port Vale 2, Newport 0: Rochdale 0, Bradford City 1: Southport 1. Exeter 1; York 4, Aidershot 2. SCOTTISH LEAGUE 1 Division One.—Aberdeen 5, Partick 2; Clyde 1, Airdrieonians 0: Dundee 2, Hibernian 1; Dunfermline 4, Celtic 5; Hearts 4, St. Mirren 0; Kilmarnock 3, Falkirk C; Motherwell 1, Dundee United 1; Rangers 4, Ayr 0; Stirling Albion 2, St. Johnstone 1. Division Two.—Albion 1, Forfar 0; Arbroath 3, Hamilton 2; Clydebank 4, Brechin 2: East Stirling 0. East Fife 4: Montrose 3, Dunbarton 1: Queen Of The South 2, Alloa 1; Raith 4. Berwick 2; Stenhousemuir 3. Stranraer 2; Third Lanark 1. Cowdenbeath 1.

IRISH LEAGUE Ards 1, Linfield 1; Ballymena 5, Bangor 1; Crusaders 1, Glentoran 3; Derry 4, Coleraine 1; Distillery 3, CUftonville 2; Glenavon 3, Portadown 2. Results of matches played on Friday were:— ENGLISH LEAGUE Division three.—Doncaster 2, Leyton 2. Division Four. —Stockport 1, Tranmere 0. Six Goals Shared Last season's national Chatham Cup finalist, Western, drew 3-3 with Hungaria (Wellington) in an out-of-season friendly soccer match at Western Park on Saturday. Hungaria produced the closepassing, quick-thinking, fastmoving Continental style of footbail, and all three of its goals were superbly fashioned and completed. Western was a little fortunate to get away with a draw. One of its goals came from a deflection which caught the Hungarian goal-keeper going the wrong way and another from a disputed penalty decision for hands on the edge of the area. In the first half Hungaria played the better football and was th* fitter side. But Western, surprisingly, came more into the game after the interval and for a time matched Hungaria’s slide-rule football.