o

_ defensive style all night San
.Saturday at their shoe box

- the all-out defense side.

. Earthquakes —

~ Jose. could: “have- won: Not’.

By ANDY FRASER. decause of their skill, which

If soccer fails to Tise © destructive, dull witted plan

to. the top of. the. of defense. |
. professional sports The “ : .
world. in North ere ‘is. no "question but.

this type of game will drive
fans away. It offers no ex-
citement, no attack, no fun

America, it will likely
be. ‘because of teams

for the spectator. For the |
like the. San. Jose’ person new to the game,
Earthquake. ‘ they wall assume this -is the
way it is played and they will

Under the direction of | 2Ofreturn.

American Terry Fisher, -the
Earthquake give all the
appearances of a bunch of ©
over the hill players with an aa
extremely limited skill level, .‘his season, then one would

and virtually ‘no imagination. .*be forgiven for quéstioning
v & the future. ce ~.

When this dullards game is
accompanied... by the of-

Playing a negative,

Jose went down 2-1 at the
hands of the . Whitecaps

sized field in California. It
was the fifth straight loss for,

LADY LUCK

And there was no reason
should . have
lost this match. In. the first.
half Whitecaps were for-
tunate to come away even.
They obviously had trouble
finding their footing and the”
range on the narrow field.

Then in the second half, the
referee from Seattle tossed
out John Craven and allowed
the San Jose ‘Hackers’. free
rein on the legs of the
Whitecap frontrunners.

in the NASL is Kevin
Hector of the Vancouver
Whitecaps. Hector:
received the offensive
.players award for his three
goals in the past two
games.

Yet, because the Fisher
coached side hasn't yet ~

learned that to go on the A late finish to the British
offensive might score goals,, Soccer season has held up
the Quakes sat back em- the availability of some of
ploying a 10 man defense the better officials.
and blew it. Regrettably their substitutes

. are unable to fill the bill.
Mind you, the one or two

occasions when San Jose did
attack, one of their players
in the Caps goal area seemed
to think he should grab or
punch the ball, thus th-
warting any possible scoring

Perhaps the league should
forget about the silly shoot
out rule for the fans and
concentrate more on the
calibre of referee and player.

effort. Second rate hackers on a
field have the same function
Earthquakes only goal (and ability) of the goons we

came on a_ questionable
penalty kick after the Craven
ejection.

suffer with in “hockey. We
have seen how far they carry
us in top flight competition.

Having the advantage in
manpower, the Quakes
quickly employed their
‘ambush’ defense. That is,
draw all your men back and
wait for an enemy attack,
When it comes have your
players leap out and kick as
many as possible.

There are few who want to
see players of the calibre of
Hector, Whymark, or
Johnston put out of action by
some second raters.

This league has some work
ahead of them if they wish to
have credibility not only
with their own fans, but with

Earthquakes couldn'teven the rest of the world.

do this with any degree of

efficiency. NOTEBOOK BITS
~ , AND PIECES
HECTOR AGAIN
Both Waiters and Fisher
Willie Johnston lay a received yellow cards as did

perfect pass on the feet of
Kevin Hector at the edge of
the six yard box for the tying
goal, then later on a corner
crossed out to Peter Daniel
for his first goal.

our friend who kept slapping
tho ball in the Whitecap goal
area...Ray Lewington was
chosen player of the match
after he moved back from
his midfield to replace John
Craven.,.Craven in turn will
sit out Fridays game here
against Rochester Lancers.
If Roger Kenyon is fit he will
be in, if not, then Buzz
Parsons is more than

It was the type of game
that must have some of the
better coaches of the league
wondering about their
futures. It was a game San

"Pair of assists for Johnston

. wa§"non. evident, but by a

ficiating in the league to date ~

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

to. OTOT 2 va OC aved
lay 9, 1979 - ‘North Shore News

~ aw Me - i

ox

willing. “BEER ‘DOES IT
BETTER—and Willie
proved it. While: waiting to =
take a corner late in the
game, Johnston connéd a fan
into a mouthful of beer. He
then lofted a cross. to Peter
Daniel. for the winning.
goal..,,.Whitecaps now: sport *
a 5-2 record going. into ‘Cap
night’ on Eeiday, at 8: 30.

‘IT’S OPEN HOUSE at the North Shore Winter Club this Saturday from noon to 4 p-m.-.

_ The new facilities in the.g tly expanded club will be on display as well as the rest of.
the progressive recreation club. (Ellsworth Dickson photo).

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