Pitch Publishing, £12.99
Reviewed by Huw Richards
From WSC 407, March 2021
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Stories
De Coubertin Books, £16.99
Reviewed by Tim Springett
From WSC 377, July/August 2018
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There are very few individuals who can run on a pitch designed for professional footballers without being jeered at by anybody who sees them
You may now be able to print off many tickets at home but a good experience in a club shop can have a lasting effect over people
Cameron Carter traces the social history of Britain through 25 years of friendly faces presenting football programmes on TV
In 1986 presenters and pundits sat stiffly, in wife-selected jackets, behind desks, because the desk is the key western symbol of wisdom. In 2011 we have lounging gigglers like Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson who do not even wear neckties, or the man-child Jamie Redknapp who is allowed to wear expensive fashion-clothes and constantly interrupt his elders in a career-long attempt to prove his right to be heard. The desk has gone.