FRANCE DENIES REPORT
“This must be how rumours get started and put people to all sorts of bother,” an irate Christchurch United captain, K. France, said yesterday. He was referring to a newspaper report that stated he was moving permanently to Wellington. “The first that I heard of it was from my friends at work, and then from my son,” said France, a police driver in Christchurch.
“lan came running home from school after he was asked by a teacher if he were going to live in Wellington. “The simple explanation is
that I have to attend a threemonth course at Trentham as part of my job, and the story has grown from there. “There is nothing ‘permanent’ about it at all. I hope to be playing for United again next season and lead the side to national league success next time.”
France, United captain for the last two seasons, achieved one of his soccer goals this year when he led the Christchurch side to victory in the Gillette Chatham Cup final. He also took the award of Canterbury “soccer player of the year” for the second time.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33046, 13 October 1972, Page 24
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