ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1930, Page 11

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

the Editor). Sir, —May I beg space for the following in your valuable paper. In. reference to a.letter that was inserted by% me 1 in your July loth edition on ‘’penalty kicks,” the only reply, indirectly through the faceting of the northern sub-division, has been to the effect of having the player (writer) disciplined for questioning decision of the referee. All due respect to referees; they are like a government in that, no matter what they do, they cannot attain the efficiency of satisfying everybody. They do their best, and I may add,- I par-, ticulaily admiro our referees in a code that is very backward in this country. But ,fflrpl.y. when such glaring mistakes are made as was referred to, not only the referee but, players also should, make themselves acquainted with the official rules. • Al the meeting mentioned above, which was held on July 31,. a speaker said that if decisions were, to bo questioned it should be elsewhere than in the Press. I presume he knew that a report of proceedings would be published, and he goes so far as to move a protest against tho ruling body in > this district (Taranaki). lie commits the same error as myself, in that he is the means of having published in the Press things which are against the “ethics of the game.” But, I am sure, his is a matter that is undoubtedly more, against the ethics of the game than the little information I gave to supporters of the game generally .—I am, etc., PLAYER.