Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 18

18 EVENING STANDARD 'SATURDAY' DECEMBER 19 1954 We are ahead of Continentals breaking barrier the goal footballers particularly the younger ones are using initiative and imagination to repel the attempt to Introduce blanket defences into League soccer And the evidence of the season is that our players are solving the problem posed by this type of defence better than the Continentals Although English football is not so negative in outlook as that of some European countries there is a determined effort to adopt in away games the European Cup tactics of a bolstered defence Some visiting teams have gone on the field with defenders wearing a shirt and pulled them back deep immediately after the kick-off But the rewards have been scanty Concerned with their poor away record Spurs selected £72500 wing-half Alan Mullery at inside-left against Wolves and brought him back Into the defence Change of job Against West Ham at Upton Park Fulham gave Fred Callaghan the No 8 and the Job of shadowing opposing centre-forward Johnny Byrne When Newcastle played Charlton at The Valley those aggressive wing -halves Stan Anderson and Jim Bey kept tight tn defence and the wingers were pulled back When I saw Exeter and Hull at Brentford they had the wingers playing on top of their own lull DftCkSi Crystal Palace Aston Villa Mill wall Gillingham Vale are other gone into away avowed intent other fellow getting goals Sometimes partial success achieved in from Manchester Wednesday employ It dullness as In semi-final between Ibices tF Wolves massed after snatching JOY bv and Fort clubs who have games with the ga of stopping the rather than scoring themselves at Stamford Bridge and left-half Bon Harris the best dose-marker game promptly took advantage of the disappearance of Hugh McHmoyle to strike up both wings His centre from the left led to the equaliser by Barry Bridges and a similar run by Eddie McCreadie presented Bridges with an open goal which he missed the tactic has as Birmingham snatching a point united on If both teams there is sterile the 1963 FA Cup Liverpool and In defence the lead against Co-operation RON HARRIS probably the best close-marker in the game GOLFER JACKUN £400 st ek 202 RUl fck Pe of ini aljtii a trip to South Africa When West Ham were confronted by the sweeper centre-half play of Sheffield United's Joe Shaw they sent Geoff Hurst and Johnny Byrne as decoys up the left wing drawing Shaw with them and John Sissons hit long centres into the gap to Peter Brabrook These remedies are solutions bg the team They depend not on the genius of one player but on the co-operation of several Players realise that if a star la closely marked his shadower must be neglecting the duties of covering that if a man is pulled out of the attack a defender has room which can be exploited that defenders are vulnerable to a shrewd pass' made while they are In the act of retreating Traditional methods will not da Dribbling blindly Into strength or hitting the ball high into the penalty area play into the enemy's hands There must be subtlety imagination and decoys to create openings By MARK WILSON Life Is a gamble for the tournament golfer who follows the professional circuit and the price of experience has to be met whatever the cost Shankly sai TO OUTWIT Aggressive Boxing crowds are a cosmopolitan collection who never ft to fascinate The betting despite the ILegalq On the strength of such philosophy with an IOU pledging repayment Inside two years the Potters Bar assistant ony Jacxlin borrowed £400 this week for a trip to South Africa There in the New Year he will compete in a series of events with the twin targets of recouping the outlay involved and sharpening his game for the 1965 British season In all the venture will cost £600 muster it all Jd 20-year-old Jackhn was-fcjpportant that I kept somettrir'T'm the bank to start the circuit with here next stimmer Incentive I have borrowed £400 on of their activities contribute to the atmosphere particular smaller halls Yet for me and many others the reap at By knew they would not have more than six players In our half I was prepared to pull back nine ten or even 11 men to block them What chance had six against 11?" Italian football is so sterile that on some Sundays the first Division average only a goal a match The solution of ace manager Ilellenio Herrera is to abolish the offside game would give greater depth to a frontal attack" he told me would be more room to manoeuvre and it would prevent defences compressing attacks into too tight a space He wanted to play a match without offside against Atletico of Madrid but the Italian FA refused Barcelona however tried it in a friendly against Espanol and also substituted free-kicks for throws-in The experiment was a flop and only one goal was scored No it is new ideas and not new rules which are needed Every weapon however formidable has a counter and I am confident that the resourcefulness of the British footballer will achieve a breakthrough before our rivals WALTER BARTLEMAN TONY JACKLIN fa characters of the sport are the Jibbers It is a title in which they have an immense pride having been acquired by skill hard work and charm which enable them to watch boxing without having to pay Fortunately for promoters they are a select band lb watch move from one seat to another and to vacate them with smiling apologies at the mistake commands a certain admiration as do the subterfuges they adopt to get into the arena One whose skill I recently unded Levene well-met challenged was deeply wounde snort: mv shows" Fancy the promise to pay back within But I think it will be two years When West Ham were held by defensive curtain at Upton Park they switched John Bond into an aggressive midfield position and Jack Burkett turned to account the gap in front ol him Confronted by a similar situation in the return Spartak ran out of ideas and I am sure they would not have scored but for a silly error between Jim Standen and Ron Boyce Anderlecht one of the top ten clubs still stuck to their four-man defensive line even when facing thin attack Once late In the European Cup-tie in Brussels six defenders in addition to the goalkeeper were contained by a raid by Peter Thompson and Ian St John As Liverpool manager Bill to the circuit next April his assistant at Temple 21-year-old Peter Jones that genial promoter of bg boxip They dont jib rat "They stver The Master who never praises lightly describes his pupil as being fine striker of the Kail Tf ball" If he learns the art of But with smoothness and charm the most important stock-in-trade scoring he could says Cotton go places It will be Interesting to watch the 1965 scoreboards for the progress of young Jones a bet Harry? 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53rd in the Order of Merit still left him with official prize money of £764 to show His pluck and Initiative In taking the South Africa plunge deserves to bring him greater success next year £25 A CORNER Even before starting his trip Jacklin has proved his keenness to win money as fast as possible Among assistants In the South Pat Lee of the RAC Club at Epsom and Roehampton's Mike Jolley have been proving themselves a formidable partnership in challenge maches this winter So this week Jacklin teamed up with Mill Hill's Richard Emery and relieved them of £50 In wagers Undaunted by this one reverse Lee and Jolley tell me they will accommodate any assistants partnership for £25 a oomer They await challenges NO AWARD Henry Cotton will not be awarding his Rookie of the prize this Christmas There Is not he tells me a suitable candidate But this does not mean a picture of gloom Very few youngsters came on to the tour- nament circuit durmg 1964 after the boom summer of the year before which 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