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Alan Ball: The man in the white boots by David Tossell

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Hodder & Stoughton, £20
Reviewed by Mark O’Brien
From WSC 374, March 2018
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Remembering Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly – the pioneering football magazine

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In WSC 237, November 2006, Simon Inglis traced the life of the first half-decent football magazine and the player and broadcaster who brought it into existence

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Fighting, drinking, racing horses and carts: past players were not well behaved

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The idea that modern footballers misbehave more often than their predecessors is a myth, as Steve Field explained in WSC 170, April 2001

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How footballers evolved their figures to be built more like wrestlers

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The days of neat and tidy football played by a team of slight players is gone – from Phil Jones to Chris O’Grady, it’s now all about the upper body

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From the archive ~ Scrawl of fame: Confessions of an autograph hunter

Hanging around outside public buildings asking strangers to scribble on bits of paper can become an obsession, as John Hall explained in WSC 7

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