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Groan Pain: Good riddance Mark Lawrenson, a dinosaur pundit who refused to keep up

The sacked Mark Lawrenson; Gary Lineker chats with the last of the old school, Alan Shearer, and one of the new breed, Micah Richards; Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville share a joke. Getty Images, Alamy (2)

The ousting of TV’s most miserable football “personalities” marks the end for a bland generation whose insistence on complacency and jingoism made them ripe for replacement

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We Made Them Angry: Scotland at the World Cup, Spain 1982 by Tom Brogan

Pitch Publishing, £16.99
Reviewed by David Pollock
From WSC 425, October 2022
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Episode 70: Tactical pioneers, the Austrian Jimmy Hill & guest Arthur Mathews

Contemplating a 96-pack of Toffifee. magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Tactical Pioneers, from Bill McCracken’s offensive offside to trap to Malcolm Allison’s whirl via the Austrian Jimmy Hill. Record Breakers brings a Turin tune, 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 Father Ted, The Fast Show and Toast co-writer Arthur Mathews.

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Get It On: How The 70s Rocked Football by Jon Spurling

Get It On review

Biteback Publishing, £20
Reviewed by Tom Lines
From WSC 418, March 2022
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