ROUGH-HOUSE GAMES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 8

ROUGH-HOUSE GAMES

SERIOUS IN RUSSIA FOOTBALL TACTICS A cable message received from London last week states that the Bntisn Army Association football team whici soundly trounced a strong Football A--sociation’s team at Stoke were anxious to have a game against a Red Army eleven Previously the obstacle to these games was the refusal of Russia to join the World Football Federation, although early in the year the Moscow Dynamos toured Britain without being beaten. It is now expected that the Russians will enter for the World Football Cui next year. If the games are played in Britain all may be well; 'Hit, according to reports from Moscod, football tneie is more than a game. , A story of a match between Borovas City ancl Kondrovo City (report supplied by the Borovak Club), which vvas never finished, is as follows: roe Kondrovo team displayed roughness which merged into hooliganism. . • • As a result of malicious roughness, two of our men had to fall out. At the enci of the first half, when the score was z to 0 in our favour, the referee was attacked and told that if we won lie would not leave the field alive.' referee was threatened again belore beginning of the second half, and - same turned into a fist fight, and „ therefore had to leave the field belo . * The home team in this case followed the old American custom of stoning visiting players, comments a win a New York newspaper. . ,In another game between Hubo y and Grigioropol teams, play became very rough ancl, according to a .M writer, “the two towns are neighbour., differing only in that Dubossary . large distillery which undoubtedly nact its effect on the match."