Articles from When Saturday Comes. All 27 years of WSC are in the process of being added. This may take a while.
Keith Butterick looks at how Deloitte have gradually enhanced their reputation
The Deloitte & Touche Annual Review of Football Finance is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Things have changed dramatically since Gerry Boon, Oldham Athletic fan and an accountant at Deloitte’s Manchester office, produced the first report. Colleagues, who tolerated his interest in comparing the finances of football clubs like an indulgent father looks at his son’s latest craze, considered him slightly barmy.
We asked Cameron Carter to sit down and watch as much of ITV's Premiership coverage as he could stomach. He emerged unscathed but unsympathetic
ITV have got football. It’s like the Childcatcher and, frankly, I’m scared. With the first edition of The Premiership going out at the Blind Date time of 7pm, ITV were always going to have one eye on the committed fan and the other on its family audience. I sat down to watch it with two packets of Frazzles and a heavy heart.
Roger Titford leafs through responses to our survey on TV football and concludes that viewers are overwhelmed and irritated by the sheer volume on offer
Even before the first remote control of the new season had been punched in anger, the backlash against the “surfeit” of TV football had begun, with two muted BBC voices, John Motson and Kenneth Wolstenholme, to the fore. Our survey (WSC 174) looked back to our readers’ experiences of the past season’s TV football. Our readership, of course, is not representative of all viewers, but the 700-strong sample is bound to include a higher proportion of dedicated, active and informed fans than your average sofa-full.
John Williams argues that the efforts of the police to keep hooliganism in the spotlight are masking the real progress that has been made combating violence
Notice the signs, recently, of a new football season approaching? Press stories complaining of too much TV football coverage; fierce debates on player wage hikes; Deloitte and Touche’s annual lecture on the booming financial power of the Premier League and how the market is good for football – but watch out for that nasty club overspend; and now, slotted nicely into the week leading up to the big kick-off, the National Criminal Intelligence Service report on the arrest figures related to football. This, too, has become something of an annual media event.
Sam Beckwith remembers the 1997 Czech cup final between Dukla Prague and Slavia Prague which started Dukla's fall from grace
There’s a growing trend to sentimentalise the years of communist rule in the Czech Republic, with propaganda-bedecked cafes popping up on Prague streets and old newsreels running on TV. So far, however, Dukla Prague have escaped the trend. One of Czech football’s most famous names disappeared in 1997 with more of a whimper than a bang, and there are few signs that it’s about to be rehabilitated.