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Bikes for goalposts, 20-a-side – the happy days of the impromptu kickaround

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Across the country any patch of grass could be turned into a makeshift pitch, with games lasting hours – as long as the ball didn’t get lose in the nettles

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WSC 372 out now

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February issue available in stores and online

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Photo of the week ~ Pre-match excitement at Matlock Town’s Causeway Lane

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Matlock Town 0 Eastwood Town 3, 09/10/2010, Causeway Lane, FA Cup third qualifying round

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Fighting, drinking, racing horses and carts: past players were not well behaved

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The idea that modern footballers misbehave more often than their predecessors is a myth, as Steve Field explained in WSC 170, April 2001

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Italy’s VAR trial: 45 “game-changing” interventions and plenty of controversy

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Video technology has resulted in 18 penalties awarded, seven rescinded, ten red cards and ten disallowed goals but it is also removing emotion from Serie A

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