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. Johnny Haynes. Fulham’s inside-left and English international, may be out of the game until New Year. Britain's highest paid football hooter/ who draws $400 a week, is in a Blackpool hospital ^ recovering from injuries received in a car crash. He has a frac-^ ture above his right ankle, and an injured left foot. The 27-year-old star Cwe saw him play against Scotland last year) was a passenger in a.car which was driven by Mrs. June Marx when r, it crashed during midnight drive on Blackpool promenade.It looks like the English.clubs will have toido something abouttheir players driving in cars, for Haynes is the seventh English ***? star who has been crocked in road accidents during the past 12 months.'A club pays a fabulous price for a player and then loses **** him as the result of a road accident.Last September Derek Dougan of Aston Villa suffered head in-juries and a broken arm and team-mate Bobby Thomson broke ^ a lag. In November Peterborough’s Denis Emery had chest and ^ hip injuries. He hasn’t played since. In' February Joe Baker and Denis Law were together in. a crash in Turin, Italy. Baker broke his nose and palate and Law hurt a hand. And two English1Dys wor coa a fi yea . T neg a itprojtfweNorlegisaicniglmalclubs paid fabulous • sums to the Italians * for Baker and Law . \ won— ★ ★ ★A WELCOME visitor Tuesday was Jimmy Buchanan, who has made his home in Montreal for a numcr of years. Jimmy played soccer here around 1912, and was with the Scottish when - they woo the Canadian championship in 1915. It was: pleasant to hear him recall the players of yesteryear with whom he. played withiIf*s»j*offeone195E Of t aridand against. Jimmy played for St. Andrews church in the Churches yea:«a•aLeague before going over to the Scottish. He tells me soccer is going strong in Montreal. They have a lot of Continental stars, with the result “we see some great football games. '•★ ** ★CORNER KICKS ... You can't buy soccer success . . . Sunderland knows that. They shelled out nearly a million dollars for big name players, but it didn’t save them from being sent down the river to the Second Division . . . They're still there . . . Arsenal handed out $235,000 for George Eastham, and now Billy Wright has dropped him from the lineup : . . Already Billy Wright, Arsenal’s new manager, is having headaches . . . .Andy Malcolm, who led Chelsea in their unsuccessful -fight to save relegation to « the English Second Division, is another, bloke who has been dropped from the first eleven . . _ Chelsea has refused his request for a « transfer, so he is appealing to the Professional Footballers’ As-sociation, of the league management committee. Something must! ** be settled quickly, says Malcolm.**• You can’t tell those ruddy Scotsmen anything . . . They won’t ** go for using substitutes for injured players . . . Aberdeen played * Partick Thistle in a Scottish First Division game and the Thistle m wound up with nine players . . . One of them was taken to the i m hospital with a serious injury to his head . . . m Fulham handed out $92,000 to West Bromwich Albion for Bobby | Robson, the English international who is now on the sidelines i w owing to a smashed ankle against Sheffield United, who finished; m the. game with 10 men . . . The United won, of course ...In soccer a player is a hero one day and a bum the next . . . Eric Caldow, Glasgow Rangers’ international full-back, was captain of the Ibrox team and now they’ve fired him . . . Bobby Shearer, who has taken over the job, has been photographed in everything but in the bath . . . There’s talk of Caldow going to Newcastle United . . . Manager of a soccer team is a precarious profession . . . Arsenal fired Georgie Swindon, who is now manager of Norwich in the Second Division . . . Billy Wright, who played over 100 games for England in their international games, ;succeeded Swindon as Arsenal's manager ... It will be interesting to see how long he lasts with the big London club.raoxDCanGucandpro]IIMarandturiami.ten
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Sep 13, 1962
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