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Video technology has resulted in 18 penalties awarded, seven rescinded, ten red cards and ten disallowed goals but it is also removing emotion from Serie A

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Rangers a big, wobbling mess and falling behind as managerial saga continues

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Having failed in an approach for Aberdeen’s Derek McInnes, the Ibrox job has been handed to Graeme Murty until the end of the season but it is only a short-term solution

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Hope for 2018 ~ part two

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No more gambling ads, reform in Spain and Italy, and England playing in the Football League – WSC contributors’ wishes for the year ahead

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