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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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Focus on Benito Carbone: Bradford City and Sheffield Wednesday’s popular Italian playmaker

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The flamboyant forward delighted the Premier League with his eye for the spectacular – and helped save the Bantams by writing off the millions owed to him in wages

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Grassroots footballers in Manchester awaiting the fate of the Trafford Soccer Dome

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The deadline is approaching to decide the future of a scruffy but well-used sports centre, the closure of which could leave hundreds of children without football pitches to play on

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Old Too Soon, Smart Too Late: My Story by Kieron Dyer

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with Oliver Holt
Headline, £20
Reviewed by Gavin Barber
From WSC 377, July/August 2018
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From the archive ~ Football’s odds have always been stacked against defenders

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It’s often said that football has gone soft. However Philip Cornwall, in May 2004, believed the history of the game has been one of taming the back line

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