Saturday, May 4 – 1918
It is not generally known that the Football Association has sanctioned the playing of matches not only during May, provided that the receipts are devoted to war charities, but during August, so that instead of a four months’ interval between last – or should it still be this? – season and next there will be one of only two months.
To assume that there will be a next season may seem to some people like taking things too much for granted, but I think I shall be right in saying that it will be proposed, and a determined attempts made, to carry on during next winter on something of the same lines as those which have been so successfully pursued during the season now under extension.
Of course, it depends upon the attitude of the individual clubs as to whether this is possible or not, and nothing is more certain than that one or two of them will conclude they have had enough, and that no prospects of loss will tempt them to go through the disheartening experience again.
The real difficulty is that many of the clubs are in a cleft stick.
Whatever course they choose to take they are confronted with financial loss on the top of all the worries and labour attendant upon the task of raising teams. It is simply a question of which entails the least loss.
Between now and the time when the annual meetings of the different League take place much may happen to affect the temper of many clubs, but it is not an enviable position that any but the fortunate few have to decide upon.
(Lancashire Evening Post, 04-05-1918)
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