SOCCER GAME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23160, 5 October 1938, Page 25

SOCCER GAME

MOVE BY REFEREES . V-': y\- : '• .... : THE OBSTRUCTION; PROBLEM DEFINITE RULING SOUGHT Referees want a new, self-contained Soccer law dealing with obstruction, and they plan to ask the English Football to get busy about it, statesi a London writer. The present plan is to circularise British associations, then - make- ( an official appeal through the Referees' Association.. '"• Referees appreciate the recently-re-vised book of laws. But it still, doerfn't contain a law that deals adequately W,ith the defender who ignores the position of theball, and charges an attacker on grounds that he is defending his goalkeeper. , . i This little point is left to the referee's discretion. Now referees are tired 'of instructions that give them offioial backing up to a point, then, at the trickiest part, leave it once more to the "referee's discretion." . The Manchester United Club, which gained promotion to the first division of v the English , Football League last season, announces a profit of £6615 for the year ended May 14. This compares with a'profit of £10,486 in the previous season, in which the club was in the first division, and a profit of £6528 in season 1935-36, when United won the championship of the second "division. , v\ . . . * Gate receipts at second division games at Old Tratford amounted; to. £30,880, a drop of almost £9OOO on the previous season; when there were such attractive visitors as Manchester City .and Arsenal, but £2OOO more than in the 1935-36 promotion campaign.. That United was uncommonly desirable guests is proved by a retutn of £3533 as share of away "gates," ottly £4l less than they received in their last season in the first division. ' ; The club reached the fifth round ofthe English Cup competition, and these games yielded £4861, compared; with £3441 in' season 1936-37. Income from .all sources amounted to £39,638, against £46,754 in 1936-37 and £36(003, in 1935-36. '