BUILDING A TEAM
BANK ON SHORT WAR WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS' (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON, Nov. 24. Gambling on a short war, Wolverhampton Wanderers are embarking on a studied policy of spending in order to be ready for League football when the victory trumpets sound, writes Geoffrey Simpson in the Daily Mail. No borrowing of players for them . . . no saving up against a rainy day. The purchase of King, wing forward of Northampton, is only a beginning of their team-building plans. Mr Arthur Oakley, their chairman, says: “ We are prepared to buy, at current prices, any players under 20 who suit us.” (What will Sir John Simon say?) Of course, if the war did end quickly, Wolverhampton, by continuing with their recruiting, will put themselves in a strong position, because many of their contemporaries are not even buying postage stamps, let alone players. But if it went on for years (which heaven forbid), wanderers would get no return for their money, but eventually would transfer the lads under 20 to the Army, without fee!
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20994, 22 December 1939, Page 9
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173BUILDING A TEAM Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20994, 22 December 1939, Page 9
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