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Forget fancy passing – the long-ball game can be a thrilling tactic

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Yes, short passing is a pure way to play football. But hoofing the ball upfield can be an effective way to get fans on the edges of their seats, as Matt Nation argued in WSC 167, January 2001

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The Billionaires Club: The unstoppable rise of football’s super-rich owners

368 Billionaires

by James Montague
Bloomsbury, £16.99
Reviewed by Paul Rees
From WSC 368, October 2017
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Oligarchs and oil barons have made owning a club beyond your wildest dreams

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Too old to daydream about scoring the winner in the Cup final? There was always a lottery win and buying the club to occupy you mind, but not any more

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Glasgow’s ghostly Cathkin Park stands as a warning to football’s wayward owners

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Third Lanark were founding members of the Scottish League but they were dismantled by a land-grabbing chairman – though the club may soon rise again

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Clueless owners oversee a second relegation for Blackburn Rovers

Venkys first game

Supporters don’t expect to see a revival in League One while the current board remain

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