A FOOTBALL DICTATOR.

Evening Star, Issue 21904, 15 December 1934, Page 2

A FOOTBALL DICTATOR.

The deadly earnestness of sport is really getting rather disturbing. After body-line cricket we are to have dictatorship football. The ' Daily Mail's ' Rome correspondent has given impressive particulars of it. An Italian eleven (for the game, it is reassuring to know, is Association, not Rugby) is coming to London next month to defend Italy's title as holder of the European Cup, and the selection and training of the team has become a matter of national prestige. On Fascist principles toose duties have been entrusted to one man, a certain Commendatoro Pozzo. Ho is, in face. Football Dictator. He selects the players, coaches them, plans their diet, dictates their strategy, imbues them with morale. As preparation about thirty players are likely to be segre-' gated in some small town —cut off from all contacts for a fortnight, till a selection of eleven is finally made.— "Janus," in the 'Spectator.' THE WHOLE FIRM WEDS. For a day or two clients called in vain on the photographic firm of Porst. in Nuremberg. " Was the general manager to be seen?" queried one caller. No. He had gone on his honeymoon. "Well, then, the assistant manager?" pursued the importunate visitor. " He's also away getting married," was the reply. " Well, who's left?" " They've all got married,' • came the reply, and so it proved. Fifteon .members of the firm had taken advantage of the State's offer of loans up to £SO for newly-weds, which has led to such a large increase in marriages since the accession of the National Socialist Government in Germany. It seemed an occasion to celebrate, so with the wellwishes of the mayor all fifteen of them have set out on their honeymoon in a touring car- specially hired, and, to make the journey still more intriguing, none of them know what their destination will be on the morrow; the secret rests with the driver.