CHARLES BUCHAN : Football Training
Secrets'
THIS AFTERNOON'S TALK is to be given by an outstanding figure in Association Football. He won every possible award the game has to offer a player, with one exception : by tantalising luck he was never on the winning side in a Cup Final.
Charles Buchan , whose broadcasts have lately become familiar to listeners, played in two Cup Finals : for Sunderland against Aston Villa in 1913, and for Arsenal against Cardiff City in 1927, and in each case his team was beaten by a goal. He played for fourteen and a half years for Sunderland, and then for three years for Arsenal. It was owing to his skill as a key-man that much of the success of Arsenal was built up. He captained both Sunderland and Arsenal, and in one of his four international matches he captained England against Wales.
As a captain he had amazing control of his team, and a genius for inspiring others with his tactics. An interesting example of his market and actual value in his heyday is shown in the terms of his transfer by Sunderland to Arsenal. Arsenal had to pay Sunderland, over and above the transfer figure, £100 for every goal kicked by Buchan during the following season. He kicked nineteen goals.