Articles from When Saturday Comes. All 27 years of WSC are in the process of being added. This may take a while.
Gavin Willacy compares his experiences as a young player with those of kids today, and finds an obsession with emulating the boys at the top
Early this season, Radio 5 Live’s morning phone-in got all in a lather about a youth league in Huntingdonshire that was unhappy at the FA banning them from publishing under-eight league tables in their local paper. The story subsequently ran in several other national media outlets.
Forget DVDs: the proper way to watch classic matches is on super 8 films. Marcus Davies describes his collection and what makes this forgotten format so special. No projector required
I have a large, and ever increasing, collection of super 8 football films. Some were acquired as a Christmas present in 1975, but most have been bought on eBay in the last few years. There is a possibility, even at this early stage of serious collecting, that it is already the single largest anthology in existence. This may not be a major claim to fame, though, because I rather suspect that I am the only person collecting them.
The Manchester City flop was coveted by United as a teenager and was a star in Greece. Dan Brennan diagnoses an ego problem
For the second year running, the January transfer window will see striker Nery Castillo make his exit quietly through the back door. For a player once coveted by Chelsea, Juventus and Manchester United, and fought over by three national federations, ignominious endings are becoming the norm.
The role of chief executive of the Football Association is a notoriously difficult one. So much so the FA have decided to open up applications to the general public
Anyone browsing the job sections in the broadsheet press of late may have noticed an advertisement for the post of chief executive of the Football Association. The current holder of the post, Brian Barwick, leaves officially at the end of the year, although he has had plenty of time to improve his putting technique since the summer, when he was relieved of most of his responsibilities by FA chairman Lord Triesman.
The national team have already failed in World Cup qualification and the China Super Leage, only four years old, has been dropped from TV. Gary Bowerman reports on a sport in chaos
The Chinese are deeply ashamed by football. Since China’s first, and only, appearance at a World Cup finals, in South Korea and Japan in 2002 – where they lost all three group matches without scoring a goal – the domestic game’s reputation has plummeted. The national team have slumped to 98th place in the FIFA rankings, while the top domestic division, the China Super League (CSL), has been plagued with damaging scandals.