In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Players Who Are Famous For Only One Thing, from Violence of the Tongue to Josimar’s big impression via a Kevin Brock backpass. Record Breakers brings us a Dutch Danny Boy, and we continue our sprightly feature, The Final Third, in which a guest contributes a match, a player and an object to the WSC Museum of Football. Joining Dan as our visiting curator this time is ace novelist, WSC contributor and one part of the team behind the North Ferriby fanzine View From the Allotment End, Nick Quantrill.
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With his clean sheet in the FA Cup final and a man-of-the-match performance to win the UEFA Cup, the Cannock-born keeper contributed to the biggest days in the club’s history
The shake-up of the competition in 2016 attracted high-profile sponsorship, but congested calendars and insufficient travel subsidies are reducing the attraction for foreign clubs
Dave Hannigan on George Best’s brief spell playing for Cork Celtic
Three days after Christmas, 1975, 12,000 fans were shoehorned into Flower Lodge to see George Best make his debut for Cork Celtic in the Bass League of Ireland. At that point in his travels through the world game, Best’s latest club had been Fourth Division Stockport County. They had reportedly paid him £300 per game. Cork Celtic had lured him across to Ireland with the offer of £1,000 per outing and, for his first game against Drogheda United, Celtic took in £6,000 at the turnstiles.
Bohemians are the latest League of Ireland club facing struggles to stay afloat. Aaron Rogan reports from Dublin
Prolonged contract negotiations between players and clubs often end in ignominy, but recent events at League of Ireland club Bohemians had a lot more at stake than loss of face. Days before Christmas the club was served with a winding-up order by two players who, along with eight others, had been negotiating severance packages after Bohemians revealed they could not honour their contracts for next season and that they hoped to provide a budget in line with the FAI’s licensing criteria.