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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.

From the archive: When Tranmere Rovers were the Merseyside club on the up

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Despite three play-off semi-final defeats on the trot, the early 1990s were heady times for Merseyside’s third team, as Karl Sturgeon recalled in WSC 274, December 2009

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Kickaround 2 out now

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Second issue of WSC’s new magazine for young fans available to buy in stores and online

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Open forum: how online message boards offer a safe space for fans to open up

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Twitter and Facebook should have killed off forums but the community feel of sites like Brighton’s North Stand Chat gives supporters a valuable personal outlet

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Photo of the week ~ Fulham’s Craven Cottage bathed in sunlight

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Fulham 2 Aston Villa 0, 17/02/2018, Craven Cottage, Championship

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Forget fancy passing – the long-ball game can be a thrilling tactic

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Yes, short passing is a pure way to play football. But hoofing the ball upfield can be an effective way to get fans on the edges of their seats, as Matt Nation argued in WSC 167, January 2001

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