In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray crack open the tinned potatoes and talk Pointless Tournaments from the Anglo Franco Scottish Friendship Cup to the St Mungo mermaid via Whitley Bay versus Metalist Kharkiv. Record Breakers brings harmonies from Hamburg 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 football writer and co-host of the Box to Box WSL podcast, Jessy Parker Humphreys.
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Saul Pope looks at two footballers who may go on to represent their adopted countries, and the concerns this has provoked
With Euro 2012 qualification in full swing, Russia will be hoping to join close neighbours and hosts Ukraine at the finals tournament. If they manage to qualify, it will be the first time the two have appeared at a major tournament together. There may be another first, as both sides could feature naturalised black players – Senegalese defender Papa Gueye for Ukraine, and Brazilian forward Welliton for Russia.