SCOTTISH SOCCER TEAM.
DEFEATS ON CONTINENT. Although the humiliations to which 'the Scottish Association football team on the Continent has boon subjected have caused a painful impression, writes an English critic, it cannot be said the defeats from Austria and Italy wore unexpected. The Scottish Football Association made the unpardonable mistake of contracting to play the games before 'they knew whether, they'would have a free choice of a team. When it caino to selecting the men they had to take what'they could get and the result foredoomed the tour to failure. 'The eleven that played at Vienna and Koine would have been wiped out by Bangers, Celtic, or Motherwell just as easily as the Auslriuna and Italians walked over them. It was sheer folly to N take a team which did not include a single player from the three' strongest clubs in Scotland. If, as was the case, tho Association could not have the services of those players, tho tour should never have been undertaken.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20925, 15 July 1931, Page 16
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165SCOTTISH SOCCER TEAM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20925, 15 July 1931, Page 16
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