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Stories

Dalglish & Rush, Summerbee & Lee, Warboys & Bannister – where have the great duos gone?

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There was a time when strike partnerships rolled off the tongue like superheroes and clubs even thought foreign players should be kept in pairs, as Harry Pearson explains

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MacDou-GOAL! The Ted MacDougall story by Neil Vacher and Ted MacDougall

362 TedMacDougall

Pitch Publishing, £18.99
Reviewed by Simon Melville
From WSC 362, April 2017
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Division Two 1977-78

Just two points seperated first from fourth at the end of the 1977-78 season, with Keith Burkinshaw's Tottenham returning to the top-flight at the first time of asking, albeit on goal difference. Philip Cornwall reports

The long-term significance
It’s not the winning or the losing, it’s the coming second or third. Bolton, managed by Ian Greaves, took the title, but it would be 20-odd years before Wanderers, led by one of Greaves’ defenders, would become top-flight regulars. Yet the two teams they pipped for the title, Southampton and Tottenham, haven’t been relegated since achieving this promotion. Keith Burkinshaw, the manager of Spurs who had taken them down the previous May to end 27 seasons in the top flight, was given the opportunity to put that right, something unlikely to happen today.

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Bourne again

Bournemouth were nearly extinct due to their financial situation, but Rob Trent tells the happy story of their revival

“This afternoon at just after four o’clock the assets of AFC Bournemouth, the stand, the stadium, the name, the players, have all been transferred into the hands of the community club.” Thus spoke Trevor Watkins, the new Chairman of AFC Bournemouth, on 18th June 1997.

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