Articles from When Saturday Comes. All 27 years of WSC are in the process of being added. This may take a while.
Heralded as an indicator of football’s rise when launched 12 years ago, it’s the best guide to the game’s health. Roger Titford looks at this year's Deloitte & Touche report
Deloitte & Touche’s annual review of football finances is now in its 12th year. The series will offer the football historian of the future a far more accurate and detailed source for the football boom-and-near-bust years than the usual run of football/business books.
The United States’ most famous victory, perhaps England’s most famous defeat, is being made into a film and, as Dave Hannigan reports, a rock star plays Stan Mortenson
Discovering Gavin Rossdale, lead singer of Bush, husband of No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani, will play Stan Mortensen in a forthcoming movie about America’s 1-0 victory over England at Belo Horizonte in the 1950 World Cup was initially worrying. So soon after Bend It Like Beckham grossed over $25 million (£16m) in 18 weeks at the US box office, this sounded perilously like the beginning of some horrendous Hollywood attempt to cash-in on the game’s perceived current trendiness.
England may have lost twice to the United States but have inflicted frequent and often quite heavy revenge, beginning, as Gavin Willacy relates, with Tom Finney in 1953
Three years after their humiliation by the United States in Belo Horizonte, Alf Ramsey, Billy Wright, Jimmy Dickinson and Tom Finney were given the chance to gain some sort of revenge on those pesky Americans when the FA sent England on their regular tour of the Americas.
Where once television offered genuine debate about the laws, today it sheds heat and not light, believes Philip Cornwall, as he assesses how the official's job has changed
One thing in football never changes: we always want the impossible from referees. What has changed is the weight of criticism referees face for failing to achieve perfection.
The football watchdog is being investigated for producing false documents and the prime minister is telling the courts what to do. Paul Virgo investigates the fallout
The summer sun seems to send Italian football on tilt of late. Last year we had Fiorentina relegated to the fourth division after filing for bankruptcy and a late start because of a ruckus over TV rights. This time a furore over false bank guarantees used by Roma, Napoli and Serie C sides Cosenza and Spal has nudged the closed-season chaos-bar a notch higher.