ASSOCIATION.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18803, 26 November 1932, Page 17 (Supplement)

ASSOCIATION.

. . ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION. .. THE TABLE TO DATE. The following are the positions of the English Association League teams, first division, including last Saturday’s matches:—

ENGLAND TEAM’S VIBIT. ESTIMATED AT £4BOO. Correspondence and reports received by the council of the New Zealand Football Association show that the Australian Football Association has Invited separate teams from England and Scotland to visit Australia next year, playing a triangular series of matches. The Commonwealth Association has offered the English team for a tour of New Zealand next season over a period of four playing Saturdays. If the invitation? are accepted the New Zealand Football Association is to pay £3OOO to Australia for the visit of the English .team, and to pay the usual expenses of an overseas team in New Zealand. Beyond this no further expense? are expected, and Australia will pay professional wages and steamship passages to and from New Zealand.

At a meeting of the council at Wellington at which Mr F. Campbell presided. the finance committee reported that the expenses in New Zealand, including those of the New Zealand Test players, would he £IBOO, making a total of £4BOO. Against that, it would be necessary to take £OOOO in gates. That would be possible by making a 2s gate at each match; an itinerary of four mid-week and four Saturday matches, all except one to be against major associations. The Guarantee List. Three major associations, it was recommended. should each guarantee £3OO one £2OO, and one minor association £IOO, .the council to guarantee Ihe balance. Any loss or profit to be shared pro rata. Mr H. L. Salmon suggested that if the learn arrived on a Monday the itinerary should be: Wednesday, v. a minor association; Saturday, Wellington; Wednesday, Otago; Saturday, first, Test, Dunedin: Wednesday. Canterbury, at. Christchurch: Saturday, second Test, at Wellington; Wednesday, Auckland; Saturday, third Test, at'Auckland. The matter was very much iu the air. for the committee had no definite knowledge as yet as to what was likely to occur next year. If the invitation was not accepted then i CoilLiluieiL in DravlPus nalumaj.

Arsenal P. 15 W. 11 L. 2 D.PS. 2 24 Aston Villa .. 15 10 1 4 24 Derby County 15 10 2 3 23 Huddersfield . 15 9 3 8 21 Leeds United 15 6 2 7 19 Wednesday .. 15 8 4 3 19 W.B. A'lbion . 15 8 5 2 18 Portsmouth . 15 7 4 4 18 Everton 15 7 5 3 17 Newcastle U. 14 7 5 2 16 Sunderland .. 15 6 6 3 15 Bolton 15 7 7 1 15 Liverpool 15 5 6 4 14 Blackburn 15 3 5 7 13 Chelsea 15 5 8 2 12 Sheffield U. .. 15 3 7 5 11 Birmingham . 15 4 9 2 10 Blackpool 15 5 10 0 10 Manchester G. 15 4 10 1 9 Leicester C. . 15 1 7 7 9 Middlesbro’ .. 14 3 9 2 8 Wolverh’mpt'n 15 2 12 1 5