Slower times
The Times in 1950 carried a story on May 31st about the World Cup which was to being on june 24th:The dates, but not the grounds, for the finals of the World Cup tournament were announced by the International Federation here. It was decided to wait until Wednesday to allow Portugal time to reply to an invitation to compete before allocating the grounds.
It was the first time British teams had competed, and the qualification was simply the Brtiish championship (all the "Home" nations), 1st place and 2nd place. However Scotland said they would only compete if they won the British championship. They didn't, and didn't.
One thing surprised me - this championship (perhaps because of the World Cup) was played in April, on the same day as full programme of league fixtures. I wonder how popular that would be nowadays?
Labels: sport
posted by Matthew @ 1/14/2007 10:49:00 AM
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