FOOTBALL DISPUTE.
STATEMENT OF POSITION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 3. Following a message published today from Auckland that- the Thistle Association Football Club, which recently seceded from the Auckland Football. Association, had decided to form a separate association to be known as the Auckland City and Suburban Football Association and to make direct application for affiliation to the Scottish Football Association, a statement was made by Mr F. Campbell chairman of the council of the New Zealand Football Association which controls Soccer in New Zealand. “I can tell the Thistle Club from the start,”, said .Mr Campbell, “that there is. not a hope that the Scottish Association will accept an affiliation; from them any- more than the New Zealand Football Association would accept liation from a Scottich League Club who had had a difference of opinion with the controlling body.., It shows clearly that those who addressed ..the Thistle Club in this matter have little knowledge of the constitution of the Association game. Even supposing they would not be able to get games with anv club under the Association affiliated to the New Zealand Football Association and any clubs or players playing for or against a club who has for the present broken away from the controlling body would come under the ban of the New Zealand Football Association which would mean suspension. Tho clubs and players playing under the auspices of the proposed new Association would also put themselves outside the code.”
Mr Campbell urged that the proper course for the Thistle Club was to again affiliate with the Auckland Association and appeal to the New Zealand Association against the decision of the Auckland Association so that the whole matter could be reviewed. Direct action bv any club management was. not in the best interests of the sport and was not the sporting attitude one expected from those engaged in sport. The New Zealand Football Association, needless to say, would not agree to such a proposal and . players in Auckland would be well advised to consider their position before playing for or against a club or clubs who have broken away from the Auckland Association. ■ , ... .Me
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 184, 4 July 1928, Page 2
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358FOOTBALL DISPUTE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 184, 4 July 1928, Page 2
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