The Archive · 1940

Rules for Matches During Air Raids; North and South Regional Competitions

London, Sept. 1 The opening games of English wartime football, which will be divided into north and south regional com petitions this season, were watched by many crowds in sweltering weather yesterday.

Conditions of playing are that if an air-raid. warning ix rounded matches should be suspended ill] the all-clear is given. Matches should net be abandoned unless the warning is near the end of a game or there is no cover for spectators, but if a match is abandoned the score fands. League placings will be counted by the goal average only because clubs are playing an unequal number of matches.

Following are the results of yes-

-|terday's games.—

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