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From knotweed to music fans – how even top clubs’ pitches used to suffer

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With Mauricio Pochettino complaining about Rochdale’s pitch, it’s worth looking back at when most playing surfaces were a mess – as Mike Whalley explained in WSC 362, April 2017

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Micky Adams: My life in football

372 Adams

by Micky Adams & Neil Moxley
Biteback Publishing, £20
Reviewed by Neville Hadsley
From WSC 372, February 2018
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Mud, Sweat And Shears by Dave Thomas

368 MudSweatShears

Tales from the turf – life as a Football League groundsman
Pitch Publishing £9.99
Reviewed by Simon Evans
From WSC 368, October 2017
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Scunthorpe Hasta La Muerte by Inigo Gurrachaga

361 Scunthorpe

The extraordinary journey of English football’s Spanish pioneer
De Coubertin Books, £14.99
Reviewed by William Abbs
From WSC 361, March 2017
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Holy commotion

wsc324Jon Spurling remembers how the FA began trialling regular games on the Sabbath in the 1970s despite protests from religious groups

Football was facing a crisis at the start of 1974. Attendances in all four divisions had been in decline for a while and floodlit matches were banned as part of the “three day week” introduced by Prime Minister Edward Heath to save on electricity consumption. Sunday football was regarded as one way to inject some life back into the flagging domestic game.

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