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INTEREST IN AUCKLAND
A welcome feature of the Association code in Auckland, says the "New Zealand Herald," is the manner
Saturday by 4 goals to 1 will be popular: wherever a naval unit is to b« found. Pompey, as the Portsmouth' Club £s known to the Navy, is the Navy's own professional club, and it relief largely on naval support for its horn* crowd. This was Portsmouth's third appearance in the cup final, it having failed on both the other occasions to bring the trophy back to Britain's maia naval base.
Pompey's victory in the cup is ,a reminder of its feerisational entry into! first division Soccer in England, when it secured promotion from the second division by a superior average of ona two-hundredth of a goal. Portsmouth and Manchester City tied on points for promotion, and seniority was, decided by averaging the goals for and against. Portsmouth's average worked'outsat 1.775, while Manchester City could only show 1.770. That was 12 years ago, and the naval team has been a front ranking club in English Soccer eve* since.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 23
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180OLDER PLAYERS Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 23
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