Double-header for key soccer games
By
DAVID LEGGAT
Canterbury’s top three teams, Christchurch Brother United, New Brighton and Andas Halswell United, will feature in a Le Coq Sportif Chatham Cup soccer doubleheader at English Park on June 1. Halswell and New Brighton, the early pacesetters in the Hertz League, will meet Rothmans League opponents, Wickliffe Press Dunedin City and Christchurch United, in that order, on a day which should produce a bumper gate for the Canterbury Football Association.
Another Chatham Cup double-header will be played at English Park a day earlier. University’s tie against Invercargill Thistle will be the cur-tain-raiser to Budget
House Rangers’ clash with another Southland team, Queen’s Park. In another move, for which the C.F.A.’s match committee can justifiably give itself a pat on the back, the crunch league game between Brighton and Halswell, which was set down for the day after their Chatham Cup matches, will be played under lights at English Park on June 4.
Brighton holds a threepoint lead over Halswell in the southern league and, despite having longterm injury concerns in his squad, the Halswell coach, Mr Murray Lawson, applauded the C.F.A.’s decision.
"It is good for the promotion of soccer. Plenty of people have been talking about the game, and the decision gives an opportunity for a lot of
people who would otherwise have been playing their own game the chance to watch it,” he said.
Three league matches will be played on Queen’s Birthday Monday, Rangers against KLM Cashmere, Sharp Copiers Western against The Tavern South Canterbury, and Woolston W.M.C. against Shamrock. Classique Technical, which must travel to Invercargill for its Chatham Cup match on May 31, will meet Nomads United in the curtain-raiser on June 4.
The two premier league matches postponed last evening, between Burndale United and Christchurch United reserves, and Moorhouse Mazda High School Old Boys and Riccarton, will be played on June 11.
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