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Stories

A small number of articles from each issue of When Saturday Comes are reproduced here. To get the full WSC experience, including free access to our digital archive, take out a subscription.

Thirty years of Football Banning Orders have eroded fans’ freedoms

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New figures show that football-related arrests remain at an all-time low, but the ever-increasing powers of FBOs have had a huge impact on supporters’ basic rights

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How amateur referees deal with sarcastic applause from frustrated players

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WSC contributor Ian Plenderleith runs a blog which discusses issues from a referee’s perspective, from penalty calls to angry spectators

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Photo of the week ~ Spotland, home to Rochdale

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From the archive ~ The loneliness of the short-winded ringer

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The life of a ringer is a strange one, though there’s always a place for you if are left-footed, as Roger Titford explained in WSC 45

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Badge of the week ~ Miscellaneous SC, Botswana

Miscellaneous200Badge of the week ~ Miscellaneous SC, Botswana
This is what happens when a league uses up all the good names that everyone wanted and is left with a club without a name. In a hurry, the new club’s directors did what everyone in a bureaucracy does when faced with categorising something complex quickly, they called the club Miscellaneous and promised to change it to something more apposite later. 

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