LINKS OF EMPIRE
CRICKET AND RUGBY. SELFISH SOCCER ATTITUDE. LONDON, March 28. The Athletic News says: “Cricket and Rugby establish links of Empire resulting in tho forthcoming tests and visits of the All Blacks. On tho otlior hand, Association football does not possess such patriotism, and does not obtain such reward. Vet soccer is an Empire game. AVhilo tho Football Association is striving loyally to help soccer overseas, the great English professional clubs display an intolerably narrow attitudo when asked to respond to the Dominions’ pleas. Thero was a distinctly disappointing response to tho appeal to find players for tho 1925 Australian tour. Inasmuch as the absence cut into two English seasons there, was some excuse.
“Now, however, the clubs’ miserably selfish attitudo has again been exposed. Only four or five out of 22 first division clubs have offered' to provide players for an off-season Canadian tour.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1926, Page 8
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